If you have three layered development structures (local dev, remote staging, remote production) like me, you want to search engines index your staging server. It is easy to prevent search engines from indexing your <code>Nginx</code> web server.
<pre><code class="lang-nginx">add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive";
</code></pre>
Add the line above in the server block <code>virtualhost</code> file and Google forget the way to go to your server.

If you have three layered development structures (*local dev, remote staging, remote production*) like me, you want to search engines index your staging server. It is easy to prevent search engines from indexing your `Nginx` web server.

```nginx
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive";
```

Add the line above in the server block `virtualhost` file and Google forget the way to go to your server.

How to block search engines in the nginx

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