Contributed by
Gary Pegeot
in #30325.
Search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex do a great job crawling and indexing your web sites and applications. However, this is not so great when you accidentally publish a development version of your app.
In Symfony 4.3 we improved this situation by disallowing the search engine
indexing for development applications. How does it work? If the app kernel
runs in debug mode (by default this happens when the Symfony environment is
not prod
) Symfony adds a X-Robots-Tag: noindex
HTTP header to all the
responses.
The X-Robots-Tag header is one of the HTTP headers that legit search engines take into account when crawling a web site. If your own app already added that header, this new feature doesn't change its value. Also, if you don't like this feature, you can disable it with this config option:
1 2 3 4 | # config/packages/framework.yaml
framework:
# ...
disallow_search_engine_index: false
|
What a Symfony developer should know about the framework: News, Jobs, Tweets, Events, Videos,...