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+# robots.txt only applies, when KorAP is accessible
+# from the domain root.
+
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /api/
+Disallow: /css/
+Disallow: /font/
+Disallow: /js/
+Disallow: /settings/
+Disallow: /corpus/