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date: 2015-12-08
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title: Custom robots.txt
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Hugo can generated a customized [robots.txt](http://www.robotstxt.org/) in the
[same way as any other templates]({{< ref "templates/go-templates.md" >}}).

By default, it generates a robots.txt, which allows everything, with the following content:

```http
User-agent: *
```

To disable it, just set `disableRobotsTXT` option to `false` in the [command line]({{< ref "commands/hugo.md" >}}) or [configuration file]({{< ref "overview/configuration.md" >}}).

Hugo will use the template `robots.txt` according to the following list in descending precedence:

* /layouts/robots.txt
* /themes/`THEME`/layout/robots.txt

An example of a robots.txt layout is:

```http
User-agent: *

{{range .Data.Pages}}
Disallow: {{.RelPermalink}}{{end}}
```

This template disallows and all the pages of the site creating one `Disallow` entry for each one.
