[Linux-Anyway] Re: Uh...robots.txt

  • From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:53:11 -0800 (PST)

> >   Been planning to make a robots.txt for this install since
> > I'd installed (!).  Finally wrote it up, but I can't remember
> > if the permissions are supposed to be 0755, or what...?

> It just has to be readable by the web server daemon ('cos
> that's how the web crawler gets it). So, depending on the owner
> of that file and its GID, the permissions need to be 400 if the
> file is owned by the same user as the web server, 440 if the
> file is owned by a user in the same group as the web server
> daemon, 444 otherwise.

  Hmm.  Well, I'd created it as root, & the group is root.  At
the moment, it's got 755.  So, would I change it to 440 or 444?

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