robots.txt file

[donecweb]

I read recently that if you have a robots.txt file and use robot meta tag on your page and there is a conflict between them that the meta tag will be the rule to follow. Does anyone know if this is true?

[webado]

Well, if the robots.txt disallowed access to the page, then the meta tag on the page is irellevant, as the (well behaved) robot would not have gone there in the first place.

If the page is visited by a robot coming from a link, then the robots.txt file is not involved, so the meta tag in the file should prevail.

This is just what makes sense to me, not necessarily what happens.