[SAC] osgeo1 - dsmc and trac

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Nov 25 08:26:28 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
> > Also, I have added /project/query to the Trac robots.txt.  From what I see
> > as long running trac requests, I'm concerned that robots are issuing some
> > expensive Trac queries that are slowing things down.  Robots may now have
> > trouble finding all the tickets for index.
> 
> A solution might be to submit a sitemap (XML) to those search engines.
> AFAIK, like this we should be able to control what's indexed and what's not.

Sitemaps don't generally say what not to index, only what to index.
The right way to say what not to index is via robots.txt. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


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