diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/files/robots.txt b/roles/pagure/frontend/files/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a70291b52e..0000000000
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/files/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-User-agent: *
-Disallow: /api
-Disallow: /login
-Disallow: /*/raw
-Crawl-Delay: 2 
diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index ddb4248e5c..6d2f4128a1 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   - pagure
 
 - name: Put in robots.txt
-  copy: src=robots.txt dest=/var/www/html/robots.txt
+  template: src=robots.txt.j2 dest=/var/www/html/robots.txt
   tags:
   - pagure
 
diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/robots.txt.j2 b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/robots.txt.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f7f174d8e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/robots.txt.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+User-agent: *
+{% if env == 'pagure-staging' %}
+Disallow: /
+{% else %}
+Disallow: /api
+Disallow: /login
+Disallow: /*/raw
+Crawl-Delay: 2
+{% endif %}