From b04abe1c61df089811355900121f032c228838a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Dichter <ben.dichter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 14:44:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a robots.txt that points to the sitemap

nwb.org/robots.txt returns 404. Hugo already generates sitemap.xml, but
nothing tells crawlers where it is. The new file allows everything and
gives the sitemap address.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 hugo.yaml          | 1 +
 layouts/robots.txt | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 layouts/robots.txt

diff --git a/hugo.yaml b/hugo.yaml
index df8463b..9ca4513 100644
--- a/hugo.yaml
+++ b/hugo.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ title: Neurodata Without Borders
 
 # Build Settings
 buildFuture: true
+enableRobotsTXT: true
 
 # Pagination
 pagination:
diff --git a/layouts/robots.txt b/layouts/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3e4b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow:
+
+Sitemap: {{ "sitemap.xml" | absURL }}