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  • Location or path to your server sendmail

    The path, location to your sendmail program on your webserver. Sendmail is a program that allow cgi/php/asp script to send emails directly from your site.

    The most used location is for sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail. Don't know location to sendmail. Run the help.cgi script that came with RCP and it will show you the path to your sendmail.

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  • Turn - ON / OFF - Ban Unknown Spider Robots

    Important function! This menu allows to temporary disable the standard RCP function to ban all unknown spiders & robots. This function must always be ON by default. Except if you are planning to submit your website to new search engines with a free or paid search engine submision tool. Then you will have to set the menu to: Do Not Ban unknown spiders! RCP will then allow the new and unknown search engines obots to read the robots.txt file and to index your website. After 2 a 3 days you should always set this menu back to default. That is: Ban unknown spiders 2 a 3 days is enough for the new search engines to index your site.

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  • Email notification on Search Engine visits

    RCP can automatically send you a email notification for each access approved (green page listed) search engine robot that will index your website. The email contains details sash as: type search engine, useragent, domain, URL, date etc. It‚s good to know your site gets indexed by the search engines for the hard needed traffic.

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  • Email notification on blacklisted visitors

    RCP can automatically send you a email notification for each Denied black listed (Red Button)) program used on your website. The email contains details sash as: Which program used, useragent, domain, URL, date, Which file requested etc. It‚s interesting to see how often people use software that you have set as illegal.

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  • Notification on Unknown Spider Robots

    RCP can automatically send you a email notification for Unknown robots & spiders that requested your robots.txt file and has ignored the robots.txt file rules. The email contains details sash as: Which program used, useragent, domain, URL, IP, Host, , date. The file requested etc. It‚s interesting to see how often unknown and mostly bad robots are spider your website.

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  • Notification on burglar alerts / data Thieves

    RCP can automatically send you a email notification on burglar alerts & data Thieves on your site. Each time RCP stops a thieve you can receive a email with details on the ban and what file the thieve were searching for. The email contains details like: Which program used, useragent, domain, URL, IP, Host, date. The file stolen etc. It‚s good to know when RCP has banned a thieve for sneaking around or stealing hidden files.

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  • Notification on Security Risk Alerts

    RCP can automatically send you a email notification on Security Risk Alerts & hacks attempt on your site. Each time RCP stops a abuser or hacker you can receive a email with details on the ban and what the hacker were doing on your site. The email contains details like: Which program used, useragent, domain, URL, IP, Host, date. What type of attack used. It‚s nice to know that RCP automatically stops all abusers.

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  • Notification on Brute Force Attacks

    RCP can automatically send you a notification email for each human brute force attack attempt. The email contains the next details : Usernames used, domain, IP, host, referer URL , date and more. This email will allow you to check if the banned abuser is a client or a real attacker and should remain banned or not.

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  • Create/Change admin user name and password

    Before you can save any changed settings on the RCP Preference page. You are always required to type in your password. You can change the login and password to your RCP admin area at any time. Before you click the button: Save My RCP Settings You can enter a new login and password in the form field. After clicking the button: Save My RCP Settings. The new login and password will be activated.

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  • Admin email adress for detailed rcp notifications

    Enter one or more email addresses separated by a comma. RCP will then sent the email notifications to listed addresses.

    Sample: admin@mysite.com,webmaster@mysite.com,home@mysite.com

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