diff --git a/clarin-dev2clarin.sh b/clarin-dev2clarin.sh
index f6fdb744eae435a248b524653a87197b4cddb0a8..54eb5ba0b523b6af2f20370ad8afa4c8b3d1e04d 100755
--- a/clarin-dev2clarin.sh
+++ b/clarin-dev2clarin.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/aai_config.
 perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/aa-statistics.php
 perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/clarin.eurac.edu.template.metadata.xml
 perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/webpage/index.html
-perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots.txt
+perl -pi -e 's/clarin-dev/clarin/g' dockerfiles/Dockerfile.nginx
 
 # adapt URL and prefix for handle server
 perl -pi -e 's/20.500.12084/20.500.12124/g' dockerfiles/commul-customization/config.dct
diff --git a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.nginx b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.nginx
index 888debf3414540f0d36266437ec838800e68d70c..4bcb52375b2dcec6dbf3f6ecfa0e74d2aa73175b 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.nginx
+++ b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.nginx
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ RUN ln -s /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx /usr/sbin/nginx
 # copy over static html
 COPY commul-customization/webpage/ /opt/nginx/html/
 # copy over robots.txt
-COPY commul-customization/robots.txt /opt/nginx/html/
+COPY commul-customization/robots-clarin-dev.txt /opt/nginx/html/robots.txt
 COPY commul-customization/google4a439c0ac1ac30d0.html /opt/nginx/html/
 RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /opt/nginx/html/
 
diff --git a/dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots-clarin-dev.txt b/dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots-clarin-dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5a3f452a6ae901a3269570698e954e14b834e7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots-clarin-dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-agent: *
+# Disable access
+Disallow: /
diff --git a/dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots.txt b/dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots-clarin.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots.txt
rename to dockerfiles/commul-customization/robots-clarin.txt