Error 403 Forbidden By Robots.txt
2013 by jibran I was ready. I had just finished updating the last few links (and some content) on my clients website and I was ready to check for broken links. I opened the trusty link checker over at W3C Schools and got the following error: Error: 403 Forbidden by robots.txt This particular site is a WordPress site and I use the Google XML Sitemap plugin to handle all that stuff, which, in this case defaults to using WordPress to generate the robots.txt. I could, in the WordPress settings, allow search engines access but this was the staging server and I couldn't allow robots to start searching and indexing it. What I needed was an exception to allow the W3C Link Checker to search the site. To solve this problem I first copied the exact text from the dynamically generated robots.txt file. I did this by navigating to the file at the root: http://yourclientsdomain/robots.txt. Next, I created a temporary robots.txt file in the root of the site. In it I pasted the exact text from the first step. Then from the W3C Link Checker documentation I added a robots exclusion rule for only their site. Like so:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
User-Agent: W3C-checklink
Disallow:
This allows the link checker access to the site, but continues to block all other robots. Once finished I renamed the robots.txt file in the root to robots_backup.txt. I wanted to keep it for the time being. I will be link checking again once we go live. Eventually I will delete it. Happy coding. ‹ WordPress JetPack Site Stats: Fully Ignore Logged-In Users Launched: Get Your Shit Together › Posted in: Development | Tagged with: link-checker, robots.txt, wordpress | Leave a comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Search for: Most recent work How To Win At Feminism The badasses over at Reductress are at it again with their new book How To Win At Feminism. Reductress I crank out on-going web projects for Reductress. Super fun as you can imagine. Everyone Is Gay Everyone Is Gay is an indispensable question and answer resource for the LGBTQ community. Hell, it’s great advice for anyone with a body with an emotion or two. I made the site responsive among other things. Give it a look see. Valhalla DSP A one man Seattle based company, writing pretty sick professional audio plugins. Check 'em out! Nice Manners Music Nice Manners is an LA based recording studio offering their clients all sorts of digital audio services. This is a demo of an internal genre based music search & player I built for them. I am ecstatic about launching this project—check it out. Need host
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can target relevant areas of the site and show ads based on geographical location of the user if you wish. Starts at just $1 per CPM or $0.10 per CPC. Error: 403 https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/error-403-forbidden-by-robots-txt.1376616/ Forbidden by robots.txt? Discussion in 'Google' started by r9_520, Jun 12, 2009. 0 r9_520 https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt Peon Messages: 24 Likes Received: 0 Best Answers: 0 Trophy Points: 0 #1 my website is http://www.dwtechz.com/ and when i use http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer... ,the Results is " Error: 403 Forbidden by robots.txt " i have no idea for this , anybody can help me , i am rookie for seo,thank you so much pls tell me how should i error 403 do? r9_520, Jun 12, 2009 IP andrewterrol Member Messages: 337 Likes Received: 5 Best Answers: 0 Trophy Points: 33 #2 I've checked your link. You get 404 Error - File Not Found, which means that there is no index.html or default.html or other main page in the analyzer directory from your website. andrewterrol, Jun 12, 2009 IP Abhik ..:: The ONE ::.. Messages: 11,340 Likes Received: 606 Best Answers: 0 error 403 forbidden Trophy Points: 360 Digital Goods: 2 #3 The site is working just fine for me.. And, I found robots.txt really blocking some user agents (bots). Abhik, Jun 12, 2009 IP Webnauts Peon Messages: 133 Likes Received: 5 Best Answers: 0 Trophy Points: 0 #4 If you have noticed, we saw that you were trying a wrong link. We made a redirect, so you should be able to access now. I see you get the forbidden error. There must be something wrong on your side. I suppose in your robots.txt, where I assume you have a mess there. Webnauts, Nov 23, 2009 IP vagrant Peon Messages: 2,285 Likes Received: 181 Best Answers: 0 Trophy Points: 0 #5 r9_520 said: ↑ my website is http://www.dwtechz.com/ and when i use http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer... ,the Results is " Error: 403 Forbidden by robots.txt " i have no idea for this , anybody can help me , i am rookie for seo,thank you so much pls tell me how should i o?[Click to expand... just means your robots txt does not allow it's bot to see your site. Your robots txt disallows many bots and that tool must be among them. vagrant, Nov 23, 2009 IP (You must log in or sign up to reply here.) Show I
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