nwtgck/actions-netlify

Action uploads to an additional URL as well, how to disable it?

Jarmos-san opened this issue · 1 comments

Jarmos-san commented

First off, thanks for your work, it's been an immense help!

I've been using this Action for quite a while & noticed search indexers crawling URLs which looks surprisingly like mine. It takes the form of <ALPHANUMERIC-STRING>--jarmos.netlify.app. Suffice to say it's hurting my indexing & SEO ratings due to duplicate entries in to the index.

After digging around a bit, I figured it's the Netlify which is deploying to more than one URL. I attached a screenshot highlighting the same. Refer to it below:

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How do I enable to Action to only output the production URL & nothing else?

Here's the workflow file I'm using to build the site before deploying to Netlify:

name: Netlify Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - dev

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          submodules: true
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: "0.82.0"
      - name: Generate Static Content
        run: hugo --minify
      - name: Deploy to Netlify
        uses: nwtgck/actions-netlify@v1.1.13
        with:
          publish-dir: "./public"
          production-branch: dev
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          deploy-message: "Deployed with GitHub Actions"
          netlify-config-path: ./netlify.toml
          github-deployment-environment: "Netlify Deploy"
          enable-pull-request-comment: false
          enable-commit-comment: false
        env:
          NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
          NETLIFY_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.NETLIFY_SITE_ID }}
        timeout-minutes: 1

Am I doing something wrong or is it intended behaviour? If it's the latter, is there any way I could disable it?

nwtgck commented

Thanks!

The preview URLs in netlify should not be indexed. Netlify attaches X-Robots-Tag: noindex header like below.

$ curl -I https:/607973ac0aadf3df4b1dce91--jarmos.netlify.app
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:19:56 GMT
Etag: "f8fa6c00ec06912b5fa59ff3db0b8bfc-ssl"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
Age: 14
Content-Length: 23507
Connection: keep-alive
Server: Netlify
X-NF-Request-ID: 3802c906-f2f8-4b19-a669-37f420fb4f2e-9843937

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Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications

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