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Conditions of using Disallow: / in robots.txt file.

If someone installed MediaWiki in the web root directory (public_html folder), and now trying to created a robots.txt file for the website; they he surely can't use "Disallow: /w/" in robots.txt file.

So, what should he put there- "Disallow: /" ? According to the guide to create robots.txt file in this section - Manual:Robots.txt#Prevent indexing of non-article pages.

Thank you.

This only makes sense if you have Pretty Urls configured. For example, wiki pages are at /wiki/Page_name, and you want to prevent robots indexing /index.php?title=Page_name, you'll add Disallow: /index.php

Thank you.