robots.txt and free web hosting

[rhodopsin]

Does anyone know if robots.txt can be used with a FREE web hosting package?

So, for instance can I have

www.freehostname.com/myname/robots.txt

Would this robots.txt work? Anyone any experience with this? Many, many thanks.

[edited by: tedster at 7:46 pm (utc) on Nov. 7, 2004]
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[ncw164x]

No the robots.txt file has to be in the root directory
www.freehostname.com/robots.txt

This is the only place a spider will request the file

[edited by: tedster at 7:47 pm (utc) on Nov. 7, 2004]
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[submitx]

You can still use other means to keep spiders out, such as Meta Tags:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">