diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-dev b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-dev
index 69d7e8bdf3..45a4cc031b 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-dev
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/taskotron-dev
@@ -42,3 +42,4 @@ fakefedorainfra_url: https://taskotron-dev.fedoraproject.org/fakefedorainfra
 taskotron_docs_url: https://docs.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/libtaskotron/latest/
 freezes: false
 public_artifacts_dir: /srv/taskotron/artifacts
+robots_path: /var/www/html
diff --git a/roles/taskotron/buildmaster/tasks/main.yml b/roles/taskotron/buildmaster/tasks/main.yml
index 0e6a51ec16..45bcfaf687 100644
--- a/roles/taskotron/buildmaster/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/taskotron/buildmaster/tasks/main.yml
@@ -71,3 +71,6 @@
   sudo_user: postgres
   action: postgresql_user db={{ buildmaster_db_name }} user={{ local_buildmaster_db_user }} password={{ local_buildmaster_db_password }} role_attr_flags=NOSUPERUSER
 
+- name: put robots.txt at web root of external hostname
+  when: robots_path is defined
+  template: src=robots.txt.j2 dest={{ robots_path }}/robots.txt owner=apache group=apache mode=0644