Category Archives: Web

Access Denied “You don’t have permission to access …”

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Sometimes you can get the following error while trying to access some sites.

Access Denied while trying to access website

It looks like these errors are from Akamai or other CDN’s

Why is Akamai blocking me?

https://myakamai.force.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-blocking-me

Why is Akamai blocking me? Part 2 & 3

https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-Blocking-Me-Part-2-Penetration-Testers-Bug-Bounty-Hunters-and-Security-Researchers

https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-Blocking-Me-Part-3-Partners-Performing-Web-Scraping-Activity

Client Reputation Lookup

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/

Akamai says they don’t block you, but the site can use tools and policies which could block you. To resolve the issue you should contact the web site owner and see if you can get unblocked and potentially get more details.

You can try doing a whois on the website domain to find the contact email.

Export Saved Firefox logins

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https://support.mozilla.org/pt-BR/questions/1253828

Enable Dev Tools

Open up a new tab, go to about:config. Search for “devtools.chrome.enabled” and set to true

Enable Firefox Devtools Browser Console

Now open up the Browser Console with “Ctrl + Shift + J” and past in the following

try {
  signons = Services.logins.getAllLogins();
  var csv = '"Site","Username","Password"';
  for (var i=0; i<signons.length; i++){
    csv += '\n';
    csv += signons[i].httpRealm ? 
      ('"' + signons[i].hostname + ' (' + signons[i].httpRealm + ')","') : 
      '"' + signons[i].hostname + '","';
    csv += signons[i].username + '","' + signons[i].password + '"';
  }
  console.log(csv);
} catch (err) {
  console.log('Problem reading or outputting logins: '+err);
}
Browser Console, Running Script

Hit enter to run the command and return all the saved logins. You can copy and paste them, or export to file.

Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

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Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute

Looks like you can get the above error sometimes if you close out your tab too quickly, or there is some sort of plugin problem. Looks like you can resolve it by deleting the “.maintenance”

More info here

How to Fix Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance Error on WordPress

Using wget to download HTML website

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https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/100570/getting-all-files-from-a-web-page-using-curl

Replace example.com/website with the website you want to download files from.

wget -r -np -k http://example.com/website/

The above command will download all the files it can find in that web directory, i.e. (html files) This can be helpful if your trying to move a simple HTML site.

The -r option means recursive, the -k option converts the links to local links after it downloads the page.

HTML redirect to website

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Change “website.toredirect.com” to the website you would like to redirect to. Put the code in a index.html or index.php file. If you stick it in the root website directory it’ll redirect automatically get called when you hit the website.

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content=0"; url=https://website.toredirect.com">

Check Access Logs for website

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Typically on a cPanel host your access logs are kept in

/usr/local/apache/domlogs/username/incredigeek.com

Where username is your cPanel username and incredigeek.com is your website.

To view the logs you can use tail -f to follow the log.

tail -f /usr/local/apache/domlogs/username/incredigeek.com

You can also use grep to search the logs.

grep "text to search" /usr/local/apache/domlogs/username/incredigeek.com

Reset WordPress admin password in MySQL

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Log into MySQL from command line

mysql -u root -p

Select the correct database

USE wordpress_db;

Print current users

SELECT * FROM wp_users;

Should get something similar to the following

mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_users
     -> ;
 +----+------------+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+
 | ID | user_login | user_pass                          | user_nicename | user_email                | user_url | user_registered     | user_activation_key                | user_status | display_name |
 +----+------------+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+
 |  1 | admin    | 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 | admin       | bob@incredigeek.com       |          | 2018-08-09 10:10:42 |                                    |           0 | admin        |
 |  2 | bob      | 210805fb52a13251f4bedc7e725e575a | bob         | bob@incredigeek.com       |          | 2019-11-01 11:31:23 |                                    |           0 | bob smith    |
 +----+------------+------------------------------------+---------------+---------------------------+----------+---------------------+------------------------------------+-------------+--------------+
 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
 mysql>

To update the password use

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5('NewPass') WHERE ID=1;

The MD5 hashes the NewPass and adds it to the database. You can print the users again to verify the hash changed.

You should now be able to login using the new password you configure.

How to install WordPress via ssh

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Quick look at the commands.  Skip below to view the explanation of the commands

ssh steve@incredigeek.com
cd ~/
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf latest.tar.gz
vi wordpress/wp-config.php   <-- Edit MySQL settings
mv -R wordpress/ /var/www/html/
exit
steve@localhost ~: chrome incredigeek.com/

 

SSH into your webserver

ssh bob@yourserver.com

Download the latest version of WordPress

cd ~/ && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract the WordPress archive

tar zxvf latest.tar.gz

Create MySQL database and user

Refer to here if you want to do it from the command line.  The recommended way is through your web control panel i.e. cPanel, Plesk, EHCP etc.

Edit wp-config.php

Enter in the DB information.

vi wordpress/wp-config.php

Move WordPress files to web directory

mv -R wordpress/* /path/to/webdir

If you want to install WordPress inside a sub directory on your website i.e. instead of going to “example.com” to access your WordPress site, you go to “example.com/wordpress”, then create a sub directory in your root web directory and move the WordPress files there.

Open up a browser and go to your website (example.com) to finish the WordPress installation.

 

How to Restore a WordPress Site from a Backup

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You need to

  1. Upload WordPress Backup Files to server
  2. Restore WordPress Backup
  3. Restore Database Backup

If you need to backup your site then you can use this how to here

1. Upload WordPress Backup Files to server

Use your favorite ftp client(FileZilla?) to upload the MySQL database and WordPress files to the server.  If they are already there skip to step 2.

In Linux you can use the ftp or sftp command.

sftp me@myserverip

once you connected you can upload your backups using put.

put wp-backup.tgz

and

put wp-database.sql.gz

 

2. Restore the WordPress Files

This is super easy because all you have to do is untar the files.  Make sure the file is in the directory that you want WordPress in.

tar -zxvf wp-backup.tgz

3. Restore Database Backup

If your MySQL backup is zipped, unzip it.

gunzip wp-database.sql.gz

We need to create a database to import our backup.  You can change wp_database to what ever you want.

mysql -u username -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE wp_database;

Import database

mysql -u username -p wp_database < wp-database.sql

 

You should now have a fully functioning WordPress site.