Configuring your first site

Using the Scanner for your first site

Head on over to the Scanner tab

There’s only one box, as simple as can be, just type or paste in a website, and hit Go If there’s something on a specific page that’s not working, try the whole page address.

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

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

You’ll be taken to the Sites page, where you new sites should be there, where you can see that they’re set to crawl on every sync, which should be fine, but it can lead to some issues

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.

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.