About robots.txt file

Confusion in robots.txt file...i need hep..

[venuc]

i want to add robots.txt for my server.
i have doubt in how spider interperate robots.txt
content.

for example:
In my robots.txt file statements are created like,

user-agent *
Dissallow : /help/

Now, for example my directors are like,

[sample.com...]
[sample.com...]

my queston is, which of the above link is restricted to the spiders.

1)the parent directory name /help/ will be restricted
2)or whatever it may be directory name(whether parent directory or sub directory) /help/ will be restricted
3) the directory codes/help/ also restricted?

[jdMorgan]

venuc,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

4) None. You have misspelled "Disallow:" and omitted the colon on "User-agent:". ;)

Robots use prefix-matching; Any URL which starts with the URL-path that you specify will not be fetched.

[b]U[/b]ser-agen[b]t:[/b] *
Di[b]s[/b]allow: /help/

This will request that robots not fetch any URLs starting with "/help/".

See [robotstxt.org...]

Jim

[treeline]

Another useful tool, and links to understanding robots.txt is at:

[searchengineworld.com...]

[Hints]

Remember that directory and filnames are case sensitive.

Hints

[venuc]

Dear dMorgan,

You said that, Any URL which starts with the URL-path that you specify will not be fetched.

for example, the robots file be,

User-agent: *
Disallow: /help/

i am little bit confused with the word "starts with"

[sample.com...] ( is it mean starts with /help/)?

and i want to know whether URLs are case sensitive?

thankz for ur reply
venu

[teaperson]

The spider disregards the domain, so in your example [sample.com...] the spider would consider it to start with /help/.

And as someone else said, it is case-sensitive.

[venuc]

Hi everybody,

i really thankfull to all of you valuable reply..

thank you very much

venu