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www redirects for a restaurant
23 Aug 2025
How a restaurant deals with www redirects — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a robots.txt that disallows the blog. This is where www redirects breaks for a restaurant.
Managed hosting handles www redirects automatically — until it does not. a restaurant learned this when their provider migrated servers and a robots.txt that disallows the blog disappeared silently.
When we reviewed www redirects, the DNS panel showed a robots.txt that disallows the blog. Two records contradicted each other, and the resolver picked one at random.
Early on we tried to automate www redirects for a restaurant with a cron job. It ran as root, silently overwrote a manual change, and took down their mail. Lesson learned.
A free certificate and a correct www redirects record will do more for a restaurant than a redesign that ships with a robots.txt that disallows the blog still in place.
Nobody at a restaurant could remember who had configured www redirects. The credentials were in a text file inside a folder called OLD STUFF on a shared drive.
We check www redirects for a restaurant once a quarter. It takes five minutes and has caught two problems in the past year. Both would have caused downtime within a week.
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