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robots.txt is blocking some CSS

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Issue Summary

I was seeking the Google Webmaster report when noticed that it is saying I have a blocked resource on subscribe page (a new feature to leave email addresses located at ghost.com/subscribe/. Actually we have a CSS there which has the following link: ghost.com/ghost/ghost.min.css but our robots.txt has this rule:

Disallow: /ghost/

Means that we are blocking our CSS and Google for example is unable to locate it.

P.S.: Also used View as Googlebot function now and it really sees this page without any styles.

Technical details:

Ghost Version: 0.8.0

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ErisDScommented, Jun 9, 2016

Correct - the problem is not that the robots.txt is blocking the file - it’s doing the right thing ✅

The problem here is that we need to register these assets to be served over a shared URL where they are needed for the blog. There is a similar problem with the icons being served when the admin panel is set to be served over https but the blog is not.

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ErisDScommented, Jul 31, 2017

In Ghost 1.0.0 we no longer serve the admin CSS for the frontend of the blog - so I think this issue should be resolved.