Serve robots.txt to block search engine indexing

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
clojure
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating Metabase’s HTTP routing and handling for public-facing static or well-known resources. Add a robots.txt response that disallows search-engine indexing, then verify the resource is served correctly and contains the requested disallow directive.

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Description

.Auto triaged .Team/UXWest Administration/Settings Difficulty:Easy Priority:P3

Serve a robots.txt file in Metabase that disallows search engines from indexing public-facing Metabase instances.

This is described as extremely important for public-facing deployments.

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