Blocking a spider from a directory

[JVB_Mktg]

If I want a specific spider to not visit a directory I would use

User-agent: spidername
Disallow: /directory name

but what if the directory was:

[domainname.com...]

Would it be:

User-agent: spidername
Disallow: /index.php/cPath

or

User-agent: spidername
Disallow: /index.php

or

User-agent: spidername
Disallow: /cPath

TIA,
Javi :)

[jdMorgan]

Javi,

Since robots use prefix-matching, I'd use "Disallow: /index.php/cPath"

Jim

[PhraSEOlogy]

Just remember that sometimes the bots ignore the robots.txt and go in there anyhow. I have hundreds of dynamic links crawled even though I disallowed the directory.