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Perch .htaccess X-robots tag
Hi, I've deployed a site to my staging server for testing / approval and would like to prevent search engines from indexing the staging site. In the past I've used the X-robots tag in my .htaccess file but this doesn't seem to be working on this site.
Full disclosure, I'm a front-end guy so .htaccess is usually a little over my head. But I've previously done this with no problems. I'm using the example Perch .htaccess file code below:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# Prevent search engine indexing for staging site
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
# Redirect to PHP if it exists.
# e.g. example.com/foo will display the contents of example.com/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^blog/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/post.php?s=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance!
This isn't so much a Perch question, so this forum might not be the best place to get a quick response.