robots.txt not generated without posts

[willshouse]

when there are no posts and only pages, robots.txt is not available (try accessing it via the browser) even when entries are being generated by the hook 'do_robots'

To fix the problem, create one published post. to re-create the problem, delete or un-publish the post.

I have been using WP for some sites which are only pages and no posts and so i believe it will be important to fix this issue. after all,
wordpress did win the award for best cms this year ( ​http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/ )

[dd32]

On a robots request, WordPress appears to make a SQL request for the same as it would on a Home index page.

handle_404() throws a 404 if there are 0 posts matched.

Ideally, WordPress should not query the database for posts on robots.txt requests.

I'll commit a change to display the robots.txt page with 0 posts, but I'd prefer to see something happen about that Querying.. It might require an extra internal request var, along the lines of 'plugin-handled-no-404' or something.. Pure thoughts there.

[Viper007Bond]

[13194]

[hakre]

I would not say "even". This is clearly a bug IMHO.

[nacin]

dd32 indicated he wanted to review this further.

[nacin]

Replying to dd32:

On a robots request, WordPress appears to make a SQL request for the same as it would on a Home index page. ... I'd prefer to see something happen about that Querying.

Looks like they were trying to review this in #10886.

[dd32]

Closing as fixed then, Remaining issues can be handled in #10886.

[automattor]

(In [13323]) Restore [13194] which was accidentally overwritten in [13315]. See #12256