4. Configuring your first site

1. Using the Scanner for your first site

Head on over to the Scanner tab

Simple as can be, just type or paste in a website, and hit Scan If there’s something on a specific page that’s not working, try the whole page address.

Disclaimer - This sceenshot shows iploc…net as a test site, Synclias is not associated with them in any way, I just need an example site, and I’m not sure of the legality of showing a full domain for it.

The scanner will go off and hopefully pull back the page, and you’ll see a list of links like this:

Pick the links you want to add to the VPN and click Add Selected If you’re not sure what to pick, see Guidance on Domains to add Try not to add everything!

Sadly, some sites, won’t scan and you’ll see something like this, where you can still add the base domain of the site to the list. Do that, run a sync and try the scanner again. If not, have a look at the pages linked at the bottom of this page.

Remember - the scanner doesn’t go over the VPN (yet), so you might be able to scan after the first Sync.

2. Review the Sites Added

You’ll be taken to the Sites page, where you new sites should be there.

Here, you can turn off Scanning the site when the Sync runs. For now, leave it on, but ideally, you want to turn it off for overlaps/most sites

3. Add some Safety Keywords

When it can crawl sites, the scanner works great, but it can get a bit over-ambitious, so we’ll need to reign it in a bit.

Most sites will have links to social media and other sites, places you don’t want to send over the VPN.

This is where Safety Keywords come in. They’re incredibly important in making sure you don’t start routing other sites

Any links the scanner discovers during a sync will be checked against any of the listed keywords, if that word’s in the address, it’ll drop it from the results.

Visit the Keywords tab and you’ll see a blank list for now.

Go ahead and add anything you think would be useful and/or click Import Suggestions

4. Run a Sync

That’s it! Click the Sync button and it’ll run off and apply the changes

You can monitor the progress in the top bar:

5. Check it Worked

That’s it!

If it’s your first sync, you may want to run it again to avoid the [Double Sync Problem]

Otherwise, open a new browser (don’t use the same one, for your first site, we want to make sure there’s no old connections hanging around) and test the site.

If it didn’t work:

1. Check if there’s new IPs in the Alias on OPNsense (System -> Firewall -> Alias)
2. Have a look at the [Definitive Site Fixing Guide]
3. Check the [Logging] for the “worker” container

If you used the same IP locating site as the demo and see your IPv6 change but not your IPv4:

• Go add “ipv4.ip……..* to the site list
• Have a read about “Safe Scanning” on the sites page