Disallow indexing on dynamic files

[premzero]

On my website, I have a few dynamic pages generated using one file. Say x.cfm.
So the resulting dynamic pages are:
/x.cfm?a=987&b=787
/x.cfm?a=987
etc...

You get the idea.

How do I disallow the search engines from indexing any link with x.cfm? I'd appreciate the full correct code since I don't know much about robots.txt formatting.

Thanks

[pageoneresults]

Hello premzero, Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

User-agent: *
Disallow: /x.cfm?

That should do it.

Validate your robots.txt file here...

robots.txt Validator [searchengineworld.com]

[pageoneresults]

I'd appreciate the full correct code since I don't know much about robots.txt formatting.

Open up Note Pad. Cut and paste the code above into NP. Do a save as robots.txt. Upload to the root level of your web. It must reside in the root level, the URI should look like this...

http*//www.example.com/robots.txt

[premzero]

Sorry I've been away.

Thanks for the reply. I'm implementing it right away!

Cheers!

[tenaka]

what permissions to give the robots.txt 755?

[bill]

what permissions to give the robots.txt 755?

644 should suffice