diff --git a/lms/templates/robots.txt b/lms/templates/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1f53798bb4fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lms/templates/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /
diff --git a/lms/urls.py b/lms/urls.py
index f02b1ecadb89..d681eee0ce57 100644
--- a/lms/urls.py
+++ b/lms/urls.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from django.contrib.admin import autodiscover as django_autodiscover
 from django.urls import include, path, re_path
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
-from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
+from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView, TemplateView
 from edx_api_doc_tools import make_docs_urls
 from edx_django_utils.plugins import get_plugin_url_patterns
 
@@ -1030,3 +1030,7 @@
 urlpatterns += [
     path('api/mfe_config/v1', include(('lms.djangoapps.mfe_config_api.urls', 'lms.djangoapps.mfe_config_api'), namespace='mfe_config_api'))
 ]
+
+urlpatterns += [
+    path("robots.txt", TemplateView.as_view(template_name="robots.txt", content_type="text/plain")),
+]