# Focus on Ability Short Film Festival
#
# Note on what is NOT disallowed: the parameterised search URLs
# (/films?country=AU&comp_year=2021 and friends). They are thin and we do
# not want them indexed, which is exactly why search.asp serves them with
# <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">. Blocking them here
# instead would be counter-productive - a crawler that cannot fetch a
# page cannot read the noindex on it, so the URLs stay in the index as
# bare links. Let them be crawled and let the meta tag do the work.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Filmmaker portal: login, upload and submission pages. All require a
# session and none of it is public content.
Disallow: /filmmaker/

# Server-side includes and endpoints. comment_post.asp lives here and is
# posted to by assets/js/film.js - that is a form POST from a real
# browser, which robots.txt does not govern, so blocking the directory
# costs nothing functionally.
Disallow: /includes/

# ...except the icon sprite. Every page's navigation references
# /includes/icons.svg via <use href>, so a blanket /includes/ block stops
# Googlebot fetching it and the nav renders iconless in the rendered
# snapshot Google actually evaluates. More specific Allow wins over the
# broader Disallow.
Allow: /includes/icons.svg

Disallow: /admin/

# Added: none of these are content.
#   /api/    stale endpoints (search_suggest.asp still selects f.Year and
#            f.PosterUrl, columns dbo.Films does not have)
#   /sql/    migration scripts - schema detail, not for publication
#   /tools/  smoke.ps1 and other operational scripts
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /sql/
Disallow: /tools/

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