Google is indexing my code server - add robots.txt?

[Soneji]

I am having a problem where google is indexing my code server. This is not ideal, as while it is password protected, I still don't want people finding it and brute forcing it. I was hoping to add some sort of method to add a robots.txt file to the default server configuration to deny search bots indexing the code server.

My docker-compose.yml:

version: "2"
services:
  code-server:
    image: linuxserver/code-server
    container_name: code-server
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - PASSWORD=__
      - SUDO_PASSWORD=__
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
    restart: unless-stopped

I know I am using the linuxserver/code-server image, but I think this is irrelavant to the issue.

My nginx vhost file:

server {

    server_name code.domain.com;

    location / {
	proxy_set_header Host $host;
	proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
	proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
	proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
	proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
	proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
	proxy_set_header Connection upgrade;
	proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding gzip;
	proxy_pass http://localhost:8443/;
    }


    listen [::]:443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}

server {
    if ($host = code.domain.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    server_name code.domain.com;

    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot


}

[nhooyr]

Agreed we should add a robots.txt.

[Soneji]

Temporary workaround:

Add this to the main server in your nginx config file:

location = /robots.txt { return 200 "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n"; }

[Soneji]

Amazing! Thank you so much @code-asher

[code-asher]

❤️ It'll be in the next release!