Precedence of X-Robots-Tag header vs robots meta tag

Question

I\'ve placed the following Header in my vhost config:

Header set X-Robots-Tag \"noindex, nofollow\"

The goal here is to just disab

Answer 1

Just an update to Dan's experience, I also have both the

Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"

and

on my one of my Wordpress sites, and a check in Google Search Console confirmed that the noindex in X-Robots-Tag is taking precedence as the pages have been crawled and but aren't indexed. So the logic in the correct answer is indeed, correct.