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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve noticed that we are getting crawled by what seems to be a newer robot “AhrefsBot” (<a href="http://ahrefs.com">http://ahrefs.com</a>) That also seems to be ignoring the “Disallow: /cgi/” stanza as when looking at the logs or the apache
server-status it is hitting things in /cgi. <span style="font-family:Wingdings">
L</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a first measure to reign this bot in I’d like to add a parameter to the default robots.txt file “Crawl-Delay: 2” per their documentation (<a href="https://ahrefs.com/robot/">https://ahrefs.com/robot/</a>) but not finding a simple way
of doing in EPrints so I started to go through the files and ran across: perl_lib/EPrints/Apache/RobotsTxt.pm where I see what is the default definition for the robots.txt file. I’ve updated that file and restarted the web server but alas the robots.txt file
does not change. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So two questions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Does anyone have a hint on what needs to be done to identify a new bot correctly? I’ve also found the perl_lib/robots.pm but not sure where to add the AhrefsBot to the file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Does anyone know how to update the robots.txt file? Is it per archive?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian Gregg.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#323E4F">Brian D. Gregg<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#323E4F">Solutions Architect
</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#323E4F">|<i> Manager Systems Development<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#323E4F">University of Pittsburgh | University Library System<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#323E4F">Address: <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=7500+Thomas+Blvd,+Pittsburgh,+PA&hl=en&sll=41.117935,-77.604698&sspn=7.662465,13.73291&oq=7500+Tho&t=h&hnear=7500+Thomas+Blvd,+Pittsburgh,+Pennsylvania+15208&z=17" target="_blank">
7500 Thomas Blvd. Room 129 Pittsburgh, PA 15208</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#17365D">Tel: (412) 648-3264 | Email: <a href="mailto:bdgregg@pitt.edu">
bdgregg@pitt.edu</a> | Fax: (412) 648-3585<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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