robots.txt on phpbb forum

[RammsteinNicCage]

Someone made a mod that allows all spiders to spider a phpBB forum. I was wondering if there would be a way to prevent them from spidering some of the sections of the forum because they aren't relevent to the site content. So, say these are the sections I have:

www.domain.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1
www.domain.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2
www.domain.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

I want the first section spidered, but not the second or third. Is this possible?

Jennifer

[jamie]

hi jennifer,

as far as i know you can simply specify the forum you wish not to be crawled. e.g.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /phpbb/viewforum.php?f=18

this is perfectly valid and it also complies with googles robots.txt info page [google.com]

to be on the safe side though this post bumps yours to the top anyway ;-)

cheers

<added>

hi jennifer, i have just added a bit of php code to two of the phpbb files which adds a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> depending on the forum_id

sticky me if you wish for the code