Multiple robots.txt for subdomains in rails

Question

I have a site with multiple subdomains and I want the named subdomains robots.txt to be different from the www one.

I tried to use .htaccess, but the FastCGI doesn\'t lo

Answer 1

If you can't configure your http server to do this before the request is sent to rails, I would just setup a 'robots' controller that renders a template like:

def show_robot
  subdomain = # get subdomain, escape
  render :text => open('robots.#{subdomain}.txt').read, :layout => false
end

Depending on what you're trying to accomplish you could also use a single template instead of a bunch of different files.