Title: Virtual robots.txt
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Virtual robots.txt

 *  [digitaldeviation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaldeviation/)
 * (@digitaldeviation)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/)
 * I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to update the virtual robots.txt. Can
   I somehow modify that? Or do I just upload my own and it goes away?
 * I couldn’t find this in the docs at all.

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985558)
 * Try uploading a robots.txt to the root level of your domain (this is where this
   file goes).
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985559)
 * [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40360](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40360)
 *  Thread Starter [digitaldeviation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitaldeviation/)
 * (@digitaldeviation)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985701)
 * I know how to create one. What I wasn’t sure on was if I could modify the output
   of the virtual robots.txt that WP uses.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985703)
 * Check your dashboard privacy settings and try an actual robots.txt, which have
   priority over any “virtual” one.
 *  [Animatop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animatop/)
 * (@animatop)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985866)
 * [@iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) thanks! It was the privacy
   settings preventing google from crawling my website… Cheers

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## Tags

 * [robots.txt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/robots-txt/)
 * [virtual](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/virtual/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Animatop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animatop/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virtual-robotstxt/#post-985866)
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