diff --git a/vagrant/provisioning/roles/arkcase-portal-ui/tasks/main.yml b/vagrant/provisioning/roles/arkcase-portal-ui/tasks/main.yml
index 50d963f9..fcca1dc0 100644
--- a/vagrant/provisioning/roles/arkcase-portal-ui/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/vagrant/provisioning/roles/arkcase-portal-ui/tasks/main.yml
@@ -45,3 +45,19 @@
     src: "{{ root_folder }}/install/httpd/arkcase-portal{{ arkcase_portal_extension_formatted }}-ui{{ arkcase_portal_ui_version_formatted }}.zip"
     dest: "{{ root_folder }}/data/httpd/htdocs/{{ arkcase_portal_context }}/"
   when: arkcase_portal_zip is changed
+
+- name: see if arkcase portal UI robots.txt exists
+  become: yes
+  become_user: apache
+  stat:
+    path: "{{ root_folder }}/data/httpd/htdocs/{{ arkcase_portal_context }}/robots.txt"
+  register: arkcase_portal_robots_txt
+
+- name: copy robots.txt if it exists
+  become: yes
+  become_user: apache
+  copy:
+    remote_src: yes
+    src: "{{ root_folder }}/data/httpd/htdocs/{{ arkcase_portal_context }}/robots.txt"
+    dest: "{{ root_folder }}/data/httpd/htdocs/robots.txt"
+  when: arkcase_portal_robots_txt.stat.exists == true
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diff --git a/vagrant/provisioning/roles/haproxy/tasks/main.yml b/vagrant/provisioning/roles/haproxy/tasks/main.yml
index a7816240..3a5d249d 100644
--- a/vagrant/provisioning/roles/haproxy/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/vagrant/provisioning/roles/haproxy/tasks/main.yml
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@
   ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
     backup: true
     path: "{{ path_haproxy_cfg }}"
-    insertafter: "acl acl_arkcase_portal path_beg /{{ arkcase_portal_context | default('portal') }}"
+    insertbefore: "acl acl_arkcase_portal path_beg /{{ arkcase_portal_context | default('portal') }}"
     line: "  acl acl_sitemap path_beg /{{ arkcase_portal_context | default('portal') }}/sitemap"
   when: enable_sitemap_config | default(false)
 
@@ -407,6 +407,40 @@
         http-request set-path %[path,regsub(^/{{ arkcase_portal_context | default('portal') }}/,/sitemap/)]
   when: enable_sitemap_config | default(false)
 
+### Portal Robots.txt proxy rules
+- name: ArkCase Portal Robots.txt setup
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
+    backup: true
+    path: "{{ path_haproxy_cfg }}"
+    insertbefore: "  acl acl_sitemap path_beg /{{ arkcase_portal_context | default('portal') }}/sitemap"
+    line:  "  acl acl_robots path_beg /robots.txt"
+  when: enable_sitemap_config | default(false)
+
+- name: Tell ArkCase Portal Robots.txt which backend to use
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
+    backup: true
+    path: "{{ path_haproxy_cfg }}"
+    insertafter: "# backend uses"
+    line: "  use_backend be_robots if acl_robots"
+  when: enable_sitemap_config | default(false)
+
+- name: ArkCase Portal Robots.txt context, if needed
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.blockinfile:
+    backup: true
+    marker: "# {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK ARKCASE PORTAL Robots.txt CONTEXT"
+    insertafter: "#backend servers"
+    path: "{{ path_haproxy_cfg }}"
+    block: |
+      backend be_robots
+        http-response add-header X-ARKCASE-PORTAL-Node %s
+        mode http
+        option tcp-check
+        server arkcase_portal0 {{ internal_host }}:488 check fall 3 rise 2 check ssl verify required ca-file {{ ssl_ca }}
+  when: enable_sitemap_config | default(false)
+
 ### Showcase frontend
 - name: Showcase frontend part
   become: true