diff --git a/hugo.toml b/hugo.toml
index fe57943..f15b958 100755
--- a/hugo.toml
+++ b/hugo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-########################### Deployment #############################
-# set to "development" or "production" to deploy the site to the correct environment
-environment = "development"
 
 ######################## default configuration ####################
 # The base URL of your site (required). This will be prepended to all relative URLs.
@@ -19,6 +16,12 @@ defaultContentLanguage = "de"
 # disable language
 disableLanguages = ["en"] 
 hasCJKLanguage = false #  If hasCJKLanguage true, auto-detect Chinese/Japanese/Korean Languages in the content. see: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration/#hascjklanguage
+enableRobotsTXT = true
+
+########################### Deployment #############################
+# set to "development" or "production" to deploy the site to the correct environment and set robots.txt to disallow all
+[params]
+environment = "development"
 
 ########################### Services #############################
 [services]
diff --git a/themes/hugoplate/layouts/robots.txt b/themes/hugoplate/layouts/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..737b9c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/themes/hugoplate/layouts/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+User-agent: *
+{{ if eq .Site.Params.environment "development" }}
+Disallow: /
+{{ end }}
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