Auto _headers file generation logic

config.toml

@@ -31,14 +31,27 @@ date = ["date", ":filename", "publishDate", "lastmod"]
 
 # Be explicit about the output formats. We (currently) only want an RSS feed for the home page.
 [outputs]
-home = [ "HTML", "RSS"]
+home = [ "HTML", "RSS", "HEADERS" ]
 page = [ "HTML"]
 section = [ "HTML"]
 
+# Add a "text/netlify" media type for auto-generating the _headers file
+[mediaTypes]
+[mediaTypes."text/netlify"]
+suffix = ""
+delimiter = ""
+
 [outputFormats]
 [outputFormats.RSS]
 baseName = "feed"
 
+# _headers file output (uses the template at layouts/index.headers)
+[outputFormats.HEADERS]
+mediatype = "text/netlify"
+baseName = "_headers"
+isPlainText = true
+notAlternative = true
+
 [params]
 
 time_format_blog = "Monday, January 02, 2006"

netlify_noindex_headers.txt → layouts/index.headers

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Prevent bots from indexing site
 /*
-  X-Robots-Tag: noindex
+  X-Robots-Tag: noindex

netlify.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [build]
-# This default build command adds the robots noindex directive to the site headers
 publish = "public"
-command = "hugo && cp netlify_noindex_headers.txt public/_headers"
+command = "hugo"
 
 [context.production.environment]
 HUGO_BASEURL = "https://kubernetes.io/"