no your robots.txt has not gained an extension. A new file has been written to the root called robots.txt.dist

How did you do the upgrade?

Hello

I get this using the standard built in Joomla Update component.

I have just checked and it is then same of on all the Joomla websites i manage.

Cheers. - Dave.

there is no code that will rename your robots.txt to robots.txt.dist

I'm closing this issue as the presence of the robots.txt.dist is expected behavior.

Hey

If it is an older website that is being upgraded then a new file is being added > robots.txt.dist

I have not worked out from which Joomla version this started. I manage over 50 Joomla websites and see this happening on all sites.

Cheers. - Dave.

yes that file is added - that is the expected behaviour - and has even been
in a post install message in the past
your existing robots.txt file is not removed from your web site

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Hey

If it is an older website that is being upgraded then a new file is being
added > robots.txt.dist

I have not worked out from which Joomla version this started. I manage
over 50 Joomla websites and see this happening on all sites.

Cheers. - Dave.

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Hey

Ok - so if we wish to use the robot.txt file then it is a manual process to remove the .dist??

If this is the case that seems odd, making the Joomla less automated a setup.

Cheers.

What's your problem with the robots.txt.dist file? You don't have to remove that at all. It's there for convenience so you have a working example file you can copy or rename to robots.txt. You do that one time initially when you set up your site. Joomla will not create or alter the robots.txt file itself.

Feel free to use the forum (http://forum.joomla.org) for further questions about this feature.

@Bakual @Dave-Skye robots.txt.dist is renamed to robots.txt on Joomla! installation

@wojsmol Ah yes, in the step where you delete the installation folder.
I checked in my dev installation before writing it, but that one still has the installation folder since it's based on staging, not release, and thus the rbots.txt wasn't created ?

Hey @wojsmol

Yes this is what I would expect to happen, but I have some newer websites where the file is still called robots.txt.dist and the .dist has not been removed after the original installation.

Upgraded sites should keep the .dist to prevent overwriting any edits contained in the working file.

Seems like a bug somewhere to me.

Cheers.

Seems like a bug somewhere to me.

I cannot confirm this issue or a bug in Joomla core.
I've installed the staging version 3.8.8.-dev yesterday. And there is a robots.txt after installation and no robots.txt.dist. Means: I see the expected bahavior.

Upgraded sites should keep the .dist to prevent overwriting any edits contained in the working file.

That's the case with all of "my" upgraded/updated Joomla installations. 2 files. My edits untouched in robots.txt.

Yes this is what I would expect to happen, but I have some newer websites where the file is still called robots.txt.dist and the .dist has not been removed after the original installation.

As pointed out by @Bakual, this could have happened if you did not delete the installation folder (using the provided button after the installation).

On update, robots.txt.dist is not renamed to robots.txt, even if robots.txt is not found. This can be changed but, IMO, it shouldn't be. Some users may not want to user robots.txt for whatever reasons.