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To disable the sitemap.xml file using the robots.txt file, you can add the following rule to the robots.txt file:
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /sitemap.xml
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- Open the robots.txt file on your website.
- Add the above lines to the file, specifying the User-agent as '*' (which applies to all bots or crawlers).
- Specify the Disallow directive followed by the path to your sitemap.xml file, which in this case is '/sitemap.xml'.
- Save the robots.txt file.
This rule tells search engine crawlers not to access or index the sitemap.xml file.