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 ====== Beacon Production Server ======
 Beacon production is where the public visits beacontechnology.com
-The hostname is also cpanel.beacontechnology.com
+The hostname is also chost.beacontechnology.com
+The old hostname was cpanel.beacontechnology.com however this change was necessary due to cpanel no longer allowing users to change their hostname to cpanel.
 Links
-https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/whm
-https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/cpanel
+  * https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/whm
-https://beacontechnology.com
+  * https://cpanel.beacontechnology.com/cpanel
+  * https://beacontechnology.com
 ===== Setup =====
-To create a new cpanel.beacontechnology.com server follow these steps:
+To create a new chost.beacontechnology.com server follow these steps:
-  - Set up a fresh CentOS 7 minimal.
+  - Set up a fresh Alma 8 minimal.
   - yum install -y screen
   - run ''screen''
   - Inside screen, update the server with: ''yum update -y; sync; sleep 1; reboot''
+  - Make sure the box has a valid hostname like chost.beacontechnology.com Run ''hostname'' to print the hostname. To change the hostname run: ''nmcli general hostname chost.beacontechnology.com''
   - Disable NetworkManager by following this guide: [[https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/general-systems-administration/how-to-disable-network-manager/|Click Here]]
   - Install cPanel by following this guide: [[https://docs.cpanel.net/installation-guide/install/|Click Here]]
   - Transfer the .tar.gz file somewhere to the box
-  - Go to this [[:cpbackuprestore|article]] to see your restore options
+  - Go to this [[wiki:cpbackuprestore|article]] to see your restore options
   - Update DNS if you have a different IP
+==== Additional Setup ====
+=== Install ImageMagick ===
+When reinstalling, you may get an error when running one of the admin scripts:
+<code>
+Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Imagick' not found in /home/beacontechnology/public_html/admin/resize.php:64 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/beacontechnology/public_html/admin/resize.php on line 64
+</code>
+https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360037048673-How-to-Install-ImageMagick-for-EA-PHP-and-ALT-PHP
+<code>
+dnf config-manager --set-enabled epel
+dnf install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel -y
+</code>
+<code>
+find /opt/cpanel/ -iname pecl | grep bin
+</code>
+for each, run this command
+<code>
+/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/root/usr/bin/pecl install imagick
+/opt/cpanel/ea-php80/root/usr/bin/pecl install imagick
+</code>
+Don't forget to start php-fpm
+<code>
+/scripts/restartsrv_apache_php_fpm
+</code>
+=== Session Files ===
+There are some other things to take into consideration.
+The website generates tons of session files and never cleans them up.
+To fix this, you can use a cron job to clean them up
+<code>
+# cat /etc/cron.daily/clean_sessions.sh
+#!/bin/bash
+find /home/beacontechnology/public_html/session -type f -mtime 5 -delete
+</code>
+The above has been implemented in a cron job owned by root that runs twice daily.  It removes sessions after 10 days.  Using -delete would fail due to the large number of arguments (too many files).  Piping the results to rm did the job.
+<code>
+/home/beacontechnology/clean_sessions
+find /home/beacontechnology/www/session/ -name '*' -type f -mtime +10 | head -10000 | xargs rm
+find /home/beaconmicro/www/session/ -name '*' -type f -mtime +10 | head -10000 | xargs rm
+</code>
+=== AWstats ===
+By default WHM does not allow users to update stats anytime they want. To restore the Update Now button in awstats
+go to: Server Configuration / Tweak Settings
+enable: Allow users to update Awstats from cPanel
+To manually run an update from script:
+''/scripts/runweblogs $USER''