 <p>When you move the files to the production server you don't have to copy configuration.php that store the variable for robots in <code>public $robots = '';</code>.</p> <p>I highly recommend you to keep your development installation <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html" rel="nofollow">htaccess password protected</a> to be sure that would never be accessed by search engines.</p> <p>Hope this helps </p>