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What's the meaning of the slash in the end of disallow path? – SEO

Here are two lines in robots.txt file:

Disallow: /messages
Disallow: /qanda/edit/

What paths is this /messages point to? And what about /qanda/edit/? Is the / in the end of the second path useless? Or it has a specific meaning?

Or let me ask this way: what’s the exact meaning of theses?

Disallow: /messages
Disallow: /messages/
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  1. 0

    if you want to disallow all in messages directory I think you have to let the slash at the end

    Disallow: /messages/

    if you dont put the “/” at the end, it could be /messages.html for exemple

    Disallow : /messages

    it is like 

    Disallow : /message*
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  2. 0

    Disallow values represent the beginning of the URL path.

    Disallow: /messages

    would block URLs like these:

    https://example.com/messages
https://example.com/messages.html
https://example.com/messages/
https://example.com/messages/foo

    Disallow: /messages/

    would block URLs like these:

    https://example.com/messages/
https://example.com/messages/foo

    but allow URLs like these:

    https://example.com/messages
https://example.com/messages.html
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