Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Would you please confirm are you using Rank Math inbuilt robots.txt editor or you have a physical file in root folder?
Looking forward to helping you.
I am using RM in built. There is one robots.txt file inside the public_html however that apparently can’t get overwritten by rm
In other words, a robots.txt file exists in the public_html folder. Should i delete this one?
Hello,
Yes, you’re correct. Rank Math’s unable to rewrite your robots.txt if there’s an existing file in your website’s directory:
https://rankmath.com/kb/cant-edit-robots-txt/#num-1-presence-of-a-physical-file
In other words, a robots.txt file exists in the public_html folder. Should i delete this one?
This depends on which method you prefer. If you wanted to edit your robots.txt using Rank Math, then you may need to delete or at least rename that file in your directory. Else, you can keep the robots.txt file and edit it using file manager or cPanel directly.
Both methods are fine as long as the rules in the robots.txt are correctly applied.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
