Recommended Settings 4 Sentinel?

DaveTomneyUK · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 27, 2003 Posts: 49

Hi,

Im running the new version of Sentinel on my site and was wondering what are the best settings to use on Sentinel in the Admin panel?

PS - The 2 files .htaccess & .staccess do they both need to be set to 666?

hitwalker · Sells PC To Pay For Divorce Joined: Posts: 5661

hi DaveTomneyUK,

your talking about personal preferences.
its whatever you like.
But for example...

Code:

ADMIN Blocker Settings
AUTHOR Blocker Settings
CLIKE Blocker Settings
UNION Blocker Settings
Filters Blocker Settings
Harvester Blocker Settings
Referer Blocker Settings

personaly i have them set to permanent,block,mail.
and believe me it trashes every idiot and does a great job..

but now it gets realy tricky..

these settings.....

Code:

Scripting Blocker Settings
Request Method Blocker Settings
String Blocker Settings

thats realy sensitive,so watchout with the settings.
cause when you have a very active site with a lot of stuff....
then a lot of people can get kicked everytime.
as i said...it can...but depends on how you set it.

DaveTomneyUK · Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 27, 2003 Posts: 49

OK Thank i'll give it a try. I had them all checked. LOL

Racine · New Member Joined: Aug 07, 2004 Posts: 8

Okay, so Google is being blocked from "harvesting" the news from my site, to make it available in the news section on google.

Should I quit blocking harvester programs?

What are harvester programs? What do they do?

Thanks.

azism · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:12 pm

Harvesters harvest e-mail address and other information for their use. One of the last things you want (I hope) is for someone to harvest the e-mail addresses of your users. This is really one that should be activated, in my opinion!

sixonetonoffun · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:54 pm

The safest I think is to add the google IPs to the protected list. This eliminates the issue.