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I am about to amend the robots txt file for a site, however I am curious if once the amendment is made I will need to restart iis for it fully take effect?

Thanks in advance

markabarmi
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The robots.txt is simply a text file retrievable through HTTP(S), as is any other file. It only instructs robots to behave in a certain way and has absolutely nothing to do with the behaviour of the webserver. So: no restart required, IIS doesn't care about the contents.

Florian Heer
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  • Thanks @Florian. I can see the amendments internally but as of yet not replicated out externally as of yet. Thanks again – markabarmi Oct 06 '16 at 11:07
  • You're welcome. if you have caches outside, their updates could of course take time, independent of your webserver. Also browser caches may be involved when checking. – Florian Heer Oct 06 '16 at 11:22