Robots text to block all but index page of a forum

[Pjman]

I'm trying to generate an robot text file to disallow all SEs on all pages of forum except the index page.

So I want to allow it to index:

mysite.com/forum/


But anything else in the forum directory and subdirectories, I don't want indexed.

mysite.com/forum/$anythingelse$

I remember a command with a question mark in it that worked in the past. But I can't find any guidance on that.


Does anyone know how to do that?

[g1smd]

What directly follows /forum/ in the URLs to be blocked?

Is it any letter from A to Z or selected letters or certain digits?

[Pjman]

All are letters, no numbers at all.

Thanks for the help.

[Dijkgraaf]

You could do the following
Disallow: /forum/a
Disallow: /forum/b
Disallow: /forum/c
etc.
Disallow: /forum/z


The question mark and other wild cards are not supported by all bots.

[g1smd]

Is it any letter from A to Z or selected letters?

Are they all the same case?

[Pjman]

It's a number of different letters maybe 10.

They are all lower case.

Thanks a lot guys.

[tangor]

Allow forum/index.html
Disallow forum/

Works for me in real life.

mysite.com/ is not required

Order is important.

[Pjman]

Thanks tangor. You guys rock.