Upload a file

When you start a Deep scan, Lockpick first asks you to prove you own the site. Choose File on your site, then Show my file.

1. Create a plain text file whose only line is the value Lockpick shows you. It starts with lockpick-verification=.
2. Publish it on your site at /.well-known/lockpick-verification.txt.
3. Open that address in your browser to make sure it shows the line, then come back to Lockpick and choose Check now.

The file must be served over HTTPS, at that exact address, with no redirect. If your site sends visitors from one address to another, for example from atlas.example to www.atlas.example, publish the file on the address you are proving.

Keep the file published. Every Deep scan and Deep auto-check looks for it again before it starts, and removing it stops them until it's back.