At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:46:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hello, I'm running an apache 2.2 webserver on centos 5.3. I'm seeing frequent requests for robots.txt and favicon.ico from the logs those files should be in the document root area. What are these files, is this something the rpm installs, or do i have to retrieve or generate them?
Both files are *optional*.
robots.txt is a per-virtual host file that tells 'friendly' robots (eg googlebot or yahoo's slurp and what not) what you want them to spider or not spider in your web site. If robots.txt is missing, the spiders spider everything they have a link to. Google for this file -- there are lots of web pages that explain what this file should contain.
favicon.ico is something IE (and later FireFox, etc.) look for to put next to the URL in the location field and to save with the URL in the client's bookmarks. By default it just shows some default icon. This is mostly a vanity thing. You just create a some little 16x16 pixel version of your logo or service mark or something and bundle it into a .ico file and drop it at root of your web pages.
Thanks. Dave.
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