5 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/server/controllers/client.ts b/server/controllers/client.ts
index d81e35ec3..cdc556da2 100644
--- a/server/controllers/client.ts
+++ b/server/controllers/client.ts
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ import { join } from 'path'
 import { logger } from '@server/helpers/logger'
 import { CONFIG } from '@server/initializers/config'
 import { Hooks } from '@server/lib/plugins/hooks'
-import { HttpStatusCode } from '@shared/models'
 import { buildFileLocale, getCompleteLocale, is18nLocale, LOCALE_FILES } from '@shared/core-utils/i18n'
+import { HttpStatusCode } from '@shared/models'
 import { root } from '../helpers/core-utils'
 import { STATIC_MAX_AGE } from '../initializers/constants'
 import { ClientHtml, sendHTML, serveIndexHTML } from '../lib/client-html'
-import { asyncMiddleware, embedCSP } from '../middlewares'
+import { asyncMiddleware, disableRobots, embedCSP } from '../middlewares'
 
 const clientsRouter = express.Router()
 
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ clientsRouter.use('/client/*', (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) =>
   res.status(HttpStatusCode.NOT_FOUND_404).end()
 })
 
+// No index exceptions
+clientsRouter.all('/about/peertube',
+  disableRobots,
+  asyncMiddleware(serveIndexHTML)
+)
+
 // Always serve index client page (the client is a single page application, let it handle routing)
 // Try to provide the right language index.html
 clientsRouter.use('/(:language)?', asyncMiddleware(serveIndexHTML))
diff --git a/server/controllers/static.ts b/server/controllers/static.ts
index 1c04e4b11..fe1629910 100644
--- a/server/controllers/static.ts
+++ b/server/controllers/static.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ staticRouter.get('/robots.txt',
   cacheRoute(ROUTE_CACHE_LIFETIME.ROBOTS),
   (_, res: express.Response) => {
     res.type('text/plain')
+
     return res.send(CONFIG.INSTANCE.ROBOTS)
   }
 )
diff --git a/server/middlewares/index.ts b/server/middlewares/index.ts
index a0035f623..d2ed079b6 100644
--- a/server/middlewares/index.ts
+++ b/server/middlewares/index.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export * from './activitypub'
 export * from './async'
 export * from './auth'
 export * from './pagination'
+export * from './robots'
 export * from './servers'
 export * from './sort'
 export * from './user-right'
diff --git a/server/middlewares/robots.ts b/server/middlewares/robots.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b22b24a9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/middlewares/robots.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import express from 'express'
+
+function disableRobots (req: express.Request, res: express.Response, next: express.NextFunction) {
+  res.setHeader('X-Robots-Tag', 'noindex')
+
+  return next()
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+export {
+  disableRobots
+}
diff --git a/server/tests/client.ts b/server/tests/client.ts
index a91bec906..6c32c81db 100644
--- a/server/tests/client.ts
+++ b/server/tests/client.ts
@@ -482,6 +482,16 @@ describe('Test a client controllers', function () {
         }
       }
     })
+
+    it('Should add noindex header for some paths', async function () {
+      const paths = [ '/about/peertube' ]
+
+      for (const path of paths) {
+        const { headers } = await makeHTMLRequest(servers[0].url, path)
+
+        expect(headers['x-robots-tag']).to.equal('noindex')
+      }
+    })
   })
 
   describe('Embed HTML', function () {