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robots.txt missing in /public (Nuxt)

What this means

Nuxt serves static assets from /public. Without public/robots.txt (and no @nuxtjs/robots module installed), no /robots.txt is served. Crawlers have no guidance on what to index.

How to fix it

The simplest option is a static file.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

For more control — environment-aware rules, automatic sitemap registration — use @nuxtjs/robots.

npm install @nuxtjs/robots

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  modules: ['@nuxtjs/robots'],
  robots: {
    groups: [
      {
        userAgent: ['*'],
        allow: ['/'],
      },
    ],
    sitemap: 'https://example.com/sitemap.xml',
  },
})

Verify the fix

curl -I https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt

Confirm the response is 200 OK. Then re-run orino audit.