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backblaze

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-06T22:25:09+00:00

Backblaze Backblaze is a company offering products/services centering around backup. Beacon Technology uses Backblaze B2, which is an S3 compatible object storage service. Relevance to Beacon Backblaze B2 is primarily used for WHM/cPanel off site backup.

backupmysql

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-06T14:58:53+00:00

MySQL backup MySQL restore to Server

beaconscripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-20T19:52:10+00:00

Beacon Scripts Developers should run these scripts with sudo. sudo /root/scripts/beaconpublish.sh sudo /root/scripts/beaconsync.sh beaconpublish.sh Used to publish the current state of the website on dev to prod. This includes only html, php, css, etc.. not the database or any dynamically generated content.

cpbackuprestore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-01T00:35:40+00:00

cPanel Backup Restore Process Restoring cPanel accounts is easy. This article contains many of the details here: For instructions on backing up and restoring only MySQL, please click here. Simple Restore For a simple restore transfer one or more of the account backup files to one of the following locations:

deletewebsitepage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-26T21:39:24+00:00

Delete Website Page Edit Pages - Website pages outside of Access or go straight to Click “DEL” on the far right and confirm. The top menu containing links to these pages is in PHP as it interacts with the product menu and its caching. The file is located at /home/masterbeacon/public_html/template_toc_ul.php It should be edited with care.

devworkflow

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-14T23:15:22+00:00

Developer Workflow work in progress, not final General Overview The dev server has the linux firewall enabled and only IPs that are on the list are allowed to connect to the server. There is a dev site that can be accessed at It is possible for the developer to make changes to dev and preview them without affecting production.

dokuwiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-12T12:09:09+00:00

DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in

drilldowntopparagraphhotlinks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-06T22:52:02+00:00

Drill Down Top Paragraph Hot Links _ 5/6/24 Scott wrote On each category page, the script in /home/beacontechnology/public_html/pagetemplates/_TheRest_.php will look at categories one and two levels below the current one. For instance, for Portable Product Lifts at

firewall

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-10-05T19:29:43+00:00

Firewall The cPanel servers make use of various firewalling features chost.beacontechnology uses Host Access Control to manage the Linux firewall (nftables). cPHulk cPHulk is part of cPanel and will ban IPs that log too many login failures. cPHulk

gitsetup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-29T19:56:32+00:00

Beacon Git setup Here is how the repo was initialized Inside cPanel In cPanel, create the repository. * Where it says “Clone a Repository”, click the blue slider to turn it grey * Where it says “Repository Path”, this will be the location on the filesystem where the repository will be stored. Keep note of this. The cPanel user you are logged in as, the path will be hard coded to that user, but you can specify any location inside your home directory.

homepage

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-22T17:52:33+00:00

beacontechnology.com Home Page text Material Handling Equipment This is how you edit the paragraph text under the title Material Handling Equipment go to beacontechnology.com/admin/edit page editor located in Admin file name: Admin uses the table data editor, specifically at

htaccessbotblocking

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-01-18T17:53:38+00:00

htaccess bot blocking 1/18/24 Found excessive bot crawls in Awstats. Blocked Robots/Spiders visitors, Blocked (Majestic is MJ12bot – count 19,351+277), (AhrefsBot - count 16,360+107), (MegaIndex.ru – count 7,941+1), ( YandexBot – count 3,664+1445), (YandexImages – count 439) Note: ,htaccess is located on the root of beacontechnology.com website

mysql

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-07-29T20:00:21+00:00

Add Product Page to Drill Down Page

mysqlaccess

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-07T22:35:59+00:00

MySQL to Access loaded on new Dell PC-1 9/6/23 Intelligent Converters Install Process Windows 11 Mysql upload from Access to website, Run the installer in this folder seen below. Agent File Name: a2sagent.ext Z:\Computer\ES Systems\Mysql\1- YES DELL 9-6-23 & mysql NEW Intelligent Converters Installed 7-16-21\Dell PC install Intelligent Converter Mysql 9-5-23

mysqlbackuprestore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-13T20:46:25+00:00

MySQL Manual Backup and Restore Manual Backup There is a script /etc/cron.daily/databasebackup.sh which dumps the databases daily, and uploads them to backblaze. To force another backup, just execute the script and another copy will be made. Manual Restore

newcategories

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-02T22:28:43+00:00

Add New Product Page to Drill Down The category id to URL path relationship is maintained in the url_cats table. The cat_id value matches the CatID field in Website_Categories (part of the Access to MySQL dump). Each level is entered in its own column (level1, level2, level3

otherservernotes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-31T14:58:49+00:00

Clean Sessions Cron job added 8/31/23 _ Mysql backup Cron job added 8/16/2023: 58 23 * * * /root/scripts/mysqlbak Creates zipped mysqldump of database and sends file (/localbackup/mysql/beaconte_beacontech.zip) via ftp to kingscpw01.cybercon.com

outlook

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-09-24T22:38:19+00:00

Outlook Everywhere it says mail.example.com fill in beacontechnology.com

prodserver

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-07-18T19:59:14+00:00

Beacon Production Server Beacon production is where the public visits 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.

servermaintence

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-17T19:46:09+00:00

Server Maintenance and Updates Updating For general information see this article For the highlights, read the rest of this page. This information is good for all cPanel servers. Note that in the future, RHEL8 and derived distros move to dnf, however yum should still work as it is usually aliased to dnf.

siteadminscripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-23T14:10:15+00:00

7/16/24 AWSTATS /home/beacontechnology/public_html/admin/aws.php Awstats data source: /home/beacontechnology/tmp/awstats/ssl/ Contains .txt files by month (example: awstats022024.beacontechnology.com.txt) __ 10/26/23 New Admin passcode: 18829Fv2399AB~ beacontechnology.com/admin password location on the server:

sshsetup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-03T03:15:02+00:00

PuTTY setup These steps are to set up an ssh client These steps assume the IP you are connecting from is allowed to connect to the server in the first place. All steps assume dev.beacontechnology.com the same steps can be repeated for cpanel.beacontechnology.com

ssl_certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-05-29T21:26:57+00:00

SSL Certificate for Email Beacon Guide Home 5/23/24 SSL certificate for Exim, Webmail, Calendar, Dennis at Cyberon had issued a new SSL Certificate through WHM A SSL self- signed Certificate does not work for email. It has to be installed through WHM Here is a link to a short tutorial explaining how to renew certificates in WHM.

syntax

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-12T12:09:09+00:00

Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing

welcome

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-12T12:09:09+00:00

Welcome to your new DokuWiki Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started. Enjoy your work with DokuWiki, -- the developers Create your first pages Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red:

wordpress

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-04-01T22:00:35+00:00

WordPress _ WordPress: How to login, passwords and publish an article Password update 4/1/25 Log in Page User: admin Password: Lo@dingDock$7600 User: beacon Password: ULpk#EZhH*D@H4@7 3/31/25 Scott restored WordPress today WordPress got an unlawful entry via admin, we found out 3/31/25, WordPress was not functioning and pop up ad showed up saying your machine is infected. Scott Brinker did a revert fr…