Where to put robots.txt?

[gphg]

This is my first week using this static generator. I have a question where should I put robots.txt on project directory so it get copied or rendered (in case it was something like .blade.php, YET produced .txt file)?

[caendesilva]

Hey! Thanks for using HydePHP! There is no special way to set up robots.txt files using Blade or similar. There is actually no feature dedicated to handling robots.txt files, but maybe there should be?

Depending on how your site is set up, there are three ways you can add a robots file, let me know if you want further information about any of these:

1. Create a post-build-task, this can then generate the robots file each time the site is built (for example by copying a file from somewhere else, or just using file_put_contents())
2. If you have your _site/ directory in version control you can set empty_output_directory in config/hyde.php to true, then Hyde won't empty the _site/ directory and you can just commit the txt file there
3. If you are using GitHub Actions, you can also add a step to create the file there. We do this on the HydePHP.com website CI for similar things, see https://github.com/hydephp/hydephp.com/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml#L72-L73

[gphg]

It would be nice if copying static files to root of site is possible. I wish I could do the same on favicon.ico too.

[caendesilva]

I fully agree! I haven't figured out the best syntax for it though. Do you have any suggestions?

So far mine have been:

1. Copying .txt files in the _pages/ directory to _site root, but that feels hacky
2. Or simply not removing these files from the _site/ directory, which could make sense as there is no other way to put them there, but that runs in to trouble when people don't commit the _site/ directory to version control.

But I'm very much open to better idas, as this is something I would like to implement

[gphg]

Looking forward for it!