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[SOLVED] MAUTIC ERROR: The site is currently offline due to encountering an error. If the problem persists, please contact the system administrator. System administrators, check server logs for errors

September 12, 2023September 12, 2023
Mautic (category), Operating System (category), Ubuntu (category)

In performing an upgrade for mautic, you can run into this error. To fix it do the following

Type:
sudo su –
cd /home/user
chown -R www-data ./public-html/
systemctl restart apache2.service

Now close and reopen your browser. Nagigate back to mautic and it will be fine

UPDATE ANACONDA ON WINDOWS

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023
Operating System (category), Python (category), Scraping (category), Ubuntu (category), Windows 10 (category)

Open Anaconda

Launch Jupyter Notebook

Start a new Tab

Open a new Notebook

In the notebook type”
conda update conda

Press Play (shown below)

After that completes type:
conda update anaconda-navigator

Press Play

Anaconda will now update.

HOW TO UPDATE FIREFOX TO THE LATEST VERSION

June 6, 2023
365 (category), General (category), Operating System (category), Privacy (category), Tools (category)

Quick how-to for updating Firefox with screenshots included.

Open Firefox

Click the hamburger icon (shown below) which is in the top right of your computer screen

Click Help (shown below) then select About

If there is an update, it will show here, if the update is installed you will need to restart the browser as shown. And that is it!

INSTALL AND RUN CISA SCUBAGEAR

May 17, 2023May 17, 2024
365 (category), Articles (category), Operating System (category), Windows 10 (category)

Quick How-To on installing and running the app

First – Get Global Administrator permissions to the M365 Tenant

Second – Open a browser and login into it using the newly created Global Administrator Account

Next Download SCuBAGear version 1.0 from – https://github.com/cisagov/ScubaGear
Only use 1.0 because the other versions are buggy

Open PowerShell as an Administrator (right click and select this) on the computer that you will run SCuBAGear from

cd C:\directory\ScubaGear-main\
To the directory you installed SCuBAGear

Type
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass

Type
.\SetUp.ps1

Type
cd PowerShell\ScubaGear

Type
Import-Module -Name .\ScubaGear.psd1

Type:
Disconnect-SCuBATenant

Type:
cd ..\..\utils

Type:
Invoke-Scuba

The report will run!

[FIXED] PARROT OS NTP TIME INACTIVE

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
ParrotOS (category), Tools (category), Ubuntu (category)

When you run timedatectl it will show you the current date and time on your Parrot box. You will also see that NTP in inactive. To fix it

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Then run

timedatectl

and the correct time will now show

INSTALL TOR ON KALI

May 2, 2023
Kali (category), Operating System (category), Privacy (category)

Quick How-To install Tor

Open a terminal

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y tor torbrowser-launcher
torbrowser-launcher

Thats it!

INSTALL ESXI 8 ON INTEL NUC 12

May 1, 2023May 1, 2023
Articles (category), General (category), Operating System (category), Tools (category)

Here is how I was able to install ESXi 8 onto my Intel NUC 12 Wall Street Canyon

Press Power Button

Press F2 to get into the BIOS

Navigate to the Power, Performance and Cooling tab

Select External Ambient Temperature

Set to User Defined

Mouse over to Performance and click on it

Set the number of E-Cores to 0

F10 to save and Exit BIOS

Now you can reboot and install ESXi

[FIXED] VIRTUALMIN HTTP TO HTTPS REDIRECT

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023
Tools (category), Ubuntu (category), Virtualmin (category)

By default virtualmin creates sites in both http and https. Here is how to force all your traffic to your HTTPS site only

Log into Virtualmin

Select the Domain

Choose Server Configuration

Select Website Options

Place a dot next to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS by default

Save

And you are done. Your traffic now redirects

{FIXED} VIRTUALMIN PROFTPD ERROR AFTER UPGRADE TO UBUNTU 22.04

April 16, 2023
Tools (category), Ubuntu (category)

If you are receiving the following error after the upgrade:

Then you must do the following
sudo apt remove proftpd*
sudo apt purge proftpd*

Now you can run updates normally
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and you will not see the error anymore

And with that, you are welcome

(FIXED) – WORDPRESS ERROR FTP USER

April 16, 2023April 16, 2023
Ubuntu (category)

If your wordpress is asking for an FTP user to install plugins or themes, you have a permissions error
The specific error is as follows:
“To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. If you do not remember your credentials, you should contact your web host.”

SSH into the server

View the .conf file located in the sites-available folder

find the SUSEXEC id numbers

then cat /etc/passwd

This will show you all the usernames

Find the SUSEXEC id number (This will be your apache user)

Then Type:
sudo chown -R apacheuserhere:apacheuserhere /home/name/public_html/