Modern websites are visited by more than humans. Search engine crawlers, security scanners, and AI agents all make automated requests, and they often look for well-known files at the root of your domain to understand how to interact with the site. This article explains how website root-level files work in Dynamicweb 10 and where to find file-specific guidance.
Dynamicweb 10 automatically serves files placed in /Files/System/wwwroot/ at the root of the website:
/Files/System/wwwroot/llms.txt > https://example.com/llms.txt
/Files/System/wwwroot/.well-known/security.txt > https://example.com/.well-known/security.txt
Any file type works. Content type is detected automatically from the file extension.
Two files are exceptions; robots.txt and sitemap.xml are generated dynamically by Dynamicweb instead of being read from wwwroot.
Use the following articles for file-specific guidance:
Other common root-level files
Search engine verification files are also common at the website root. Services such as Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools can provide an HTML or XML file that proves domain ownership.
Place downloaded verification files directly in wwwroot:
/Files/System/wwwroot/google1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h.html
/Files/System/wwwroot/BingSiteAuth.xml
No changes to the file content are needed. Upload the file exactly as downloaded.