wordpress.com/robots.txt is returing not found error
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Hi Team,
I have enabled a monitoring check in my environment to check the availibility of the domain https://wordpress.com/robots.txt, but the url is not reachable now and also the check is broken due to this. Is this a common issue and also please confirm whether wordpress is working on it for a fix?
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Why would you need to check https://wordpress.com/robots.txt. If you install the Jetpack plugin, a downtime monitoring is included.
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We have added the url in monitoring just to check the http availability of our server. Since this url is not accessible the check is broken now. Is this URL https://wordpress.com/robots.txt under any maintennace? Will it be fixed soon? The site says unreachable at the moment.
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Hi there,
https://wordpress.com/robots.txt doesn’t exist. As in, we don’t have a robots.txt file on the WordPress.com root domain, and the presence or absence of that file has no bearing at all on whether or not WordPress.com or any site hosted on WordPress.com is online.
Can you provide some more details on what exactly you’re trying to check?
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We are trying to check the http response time by checking the url https://wordpress.com/robots.txt from the server. It was working fine few days ago but the url is not working now. Was it moved from the root domain? Will it be back soon?
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@vineethdocs, I can’t speak to the decisions of our systems team on our main website.
But your own site’s robots.txt URL is here: vineethdocs.wordpress.com/robots.txt
Also, we already display uptime and response times for all of our services here:
https://automatticstatus.com/I’d recommend using that instead.
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My concern is just want to know about https://wordpress.com/robots.txt availability. Is that page deleted permanently.
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@kokkieh gave you already an answer at https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/wordpress-com-robots-txt-is-returing-not-found-error/#post-3816270
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Sorry that does not satisfy my query. As I have said earlier to check the http response time of my server I used the url https://wordpress.com/robots.txt in my monitoring server. So by recaching this url I would get the http response time.
Since the url is not reachable my monitoring check returns 404 error. So please answer my query whether the url https://wordpress.com/robots.txt will be back soon or should I use any other wordpress url? -
Again, we can’t speak to the decisions of our systems team regarding our site. We can help you with your site.
If you’d like to share specifics on what you’ve been doing with the robots.txt file, from where, how often, and so on, we’ll try to get the request surfaced to the right people.
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@vineethdocs just to follow up, it looks like there was an error that has been fixed.
I’m not sure whether it will resolve anything for monitoring your own site, though. We have a network of servers and your site likely isn’t on that one. Let us know if you need more help with that.
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Hi Team,
Thank you for fixing the issue
..my monitoring issue is also fixed now..the url is reachable now..
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