diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/files/httpd/coprs.conf b/roles/copr/frontend/files/httpd/coprs.conf
index 62ec6cf81a..fa7e2fd81b 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend/files/httpd/coprs.conf
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/files/httpd/coprs.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 NameVirtualHost *:80
 LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
 WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi
+Alias /robots.txt /var/www/html/robots.txt
 
 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName copr.fedorainfracloud.org
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/files/robots.txt b/roles/copr/frontend/files/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1f53798bb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/files/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 6ca2283382..442ca42aec 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -98,3 +98,6 @@
   when: devel
   copy: src=banner-include.html dest=/var/lib/copr/
 
+- name: disallow robots on dev instance
+  when: devel
+  copy: src=robots.txt dest=/var/www/html/