Send an email to: help@connectbox.technology<\/a><\/p>\n ConnectBox Google Groups Forum<\/a><\/p>\n ConnectBox Github Project<\/a><\/p>\n There are a few steps (a few more than we\u2019d like to be honest, but we\u2019re working on the update mechanism).<\/p>\n By default, your ConnectBox has SSH disabled over the LAN port. It is relatively simple to turn it on. Essentially, you need to create a specifically named directory and a file in that directory on your external USB stick. Have it inserted, then boot the device. The ConnectBox will automatically see those items and thereby enable SSH support over the LAN. The folder must be named:<\/p>\n .connectbox<\/strong> (in all lowercase and with the preceeding period)<\/p>\n Inside that folder, you will need to put a file called: enable-ssh<\/strong> again without the quotes. The file can contain information or be blank.<\/p>\n Under Windows<\/em>, the Operating System won’t let you make folders that start with a period so you need to do something a bit different. Open up a Command Prompt, (hold down the WINDOWS-R<\/strong> keys and a window will pop open. Type cmd<\/strong> into it and hit the OK button). From the terminal window, go to your USB drive by typing in the following:<\/p>\n D:<\/strong> where D: is the drive letter of your external USB stick.<\/p>\n Then type mkdir .connectbox<\/strong> which will allow you to make that special folder with the period in the front of the name. Follow this with the command cd .connectbox<\/strong> to move inside of that folder. Then make the file with the command type nul >enable-ssh<\/strong>. That is all there is to doing that under Windows.<\/p>\n SSH Login Credentials:<\/p>\n username:<\/em> root<\/strong><\/p>\n password:<\/em> connectbox<\/strong><\/p>\n The ConnectBox software image does not come with PHP installed by default. However, with a few commands, you can enable PHP to work with your files on your external USB stick. Follow the instructions below:<\/p>\n Use CTRL-X<\/strong> followed by Y<\/strong> to save the changes to the file and exit the editor.<\/p>\n Again, use CTRL-X<\/strong> followed by Y<\/strong> to save the changes to the file and exit the editor.<\/p>\n Final step at the console line is to restart the websever. The command to do this is: Now that PHP is installed, we need to tell the ConnectBox to run using the Static Web Page mode instead of the default Icon-Only method that just serves up file listings. We do that by logging into the Admin Panel. Connect up your phone to your ConnectBox and once connected, type Once this is completed you should be able to enter at the command line ifup wlan1 to exit the ping enter ^C<\/p>\n Once you have internet access: Reload the nginx server with: Lastly, we install the latest version of WordPress onto the USB drive.<\/p>\n Change out the following lines: \/\u201d MySQL database username *\/ \/\u201d MySQL database password *\/ Write out the file and exit nano<\/p>\n<\/li>\n With WordPress running you may need to create a micro-USB based swap file to enable ram to not overload. To do this, you can see what the current swap file situation is:<\/p>\n This will show the current swap file. By default there is a ram based swap file \/dev\/zram1 partition about 119M To add a second swap file of 1GB do the following<\/p>\n ..* This now creates the swapfile and enables it. to make the change permanent we need to edit \/etc\/fstab as follows:<\/p>\n Paste the following line into the file:<\/p>\n Then write the file with ^O then exit with ^X<\/p>\n To verify the change, check the swap situation now with:<\/p>\n You should now see something like: The ‘Swappiness’ of the memory now needs to be adjusted since and then to make this persistant let edit the \/etc\/sysctl.conf file:<\/p>\n At the end of the file you will find the line ‘vm.swappiness=100’ change this to ‘vm.swappiness=60’<\/p>\n Then write the file with ^O and then exit ^X<\/p>\n you can check the current value of ‘Swappiness’ with<\/p>\n and the output should be 60<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Send Feedback to the Developers: Send an email to: help@connectbox.technology Google Groups Forum \/ Mailing List: ConnectBox Google Groups Forum Add an issue to GitHub: ConnectBox Github Project Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): How do I reset my ConnectBox back to “factory condition”? 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Add an issue to GitHub:<\/h2>\n
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\nFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ):<\/h1>\n
How do I reset my ConnectBox back to “factory condition”?<\/h2>\n
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How do I connect to my ConnectBox via SSH?<\/h2>\n
How do I enable PHP for my ConnectBox web server?<\/h2>\n
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apt update<\/code> and hit Enter on your keyboard. Multiple lines will scroll by as the operating system updates itself. Once it returns waiting at the command prompt, you can proceed with the next step.<\/li>\napt install -y php-fpm<\/code> This will take a few minutes to complete.<\/li>\nnano \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/connectbox_static-site.conf<\/code> An editor will show up with the contents of the configuration file. We want to make the following two changes to the file as shown in green:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nserver {\n listen 80;\n server_name $hostname;\n root \/media\/usb0;\n index index.php<\/b><\/span> index.html index.htm;\n error_page 404 \/index.html;\n access_log \/var\/log\/connectbox\/connectbox-access.log;\n error_log \/var\/log\/connectbox\/connectbox-error.log error;\n rewrite_log on;\n\nlocation \/chat {\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n proxy_set_header Host $http_host;\n proxy_redirect off;\n proxy_pass http:\/\/127.0.0.1:5000\/chat;\n # Never cache\n expires -1;\n}\n\nlocation \/admin\/api {\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n proxy_set_header Host $http_host;\n proxy_redirect off;\n proxy_pass http:\/\/127.0.0.1:5000\/admin\/api;\n # Never cache\n expires -1;\n}\n\nlocation \/__connectbox_assets__ {\n alias \/var\/www\/connectbox\/connectbox_default;\n location ~ .json$ {\n expires -1;\n }\n}\n\n\n # Admin interface\n location \/admin {\n alias \/var\/www\/connectbox\/connectbox_default;\n try_files $uri \/admin\/index.html;\n }\n \n location ~ .php$ {\n include snippets\/fastcgi-php.conf;\n fastcgi_pass unix:\/var\/run\/php\/php7.0-fpm.sock;\n }\n <\/b><\/span>\n}\n<\/pre>\n\n
nano \/media\/usb0\/hello.php<\/code> and once the editor opens up to a blank page, type in the following:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<?php
\n print(\"Hello World\");
\n?><\/code><\/p>\n\n
systemctl reload nginx<\/code><\/p>\n<\/li>\nhttp:\/\/connectbox\/admin<\/code> into the address bar of your browser. Log in using the admin password (defaults to connectbox<\/code>). Select the Configuration<\/code> menu item, followed by Web Server<\/code>, then Static site configuration<\/code>. Toggle the buttons so that Enabled<\/code> is selected followed by clicking on the Update<\/code> button. The device will reconfure itself so that it will now serve up webpages instead of just presenting files.<\/p>\n<\/li>\nhttp:\/\/connectbox\/hello.php<\/code> which will display “Hello World” on the screen. If your device tries to download the file instead of rendering it, go back and ensure that the Static site configuration is enabled.<\/li>\nHow do I install WordPress onto my ConnectBox (Advanced)?<\/h2>\n
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\nTo connect to an access point you will need to modify the \/etc\/network\/interfaces file and add the following lines at the end of the file..
\nallow-hotplug wlan1
\niface wlan1 inet dhcp
\nwpa-ssid \u201c\u201d
\nwpa-psk \u201c\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nThis will raise the interface and attempt to login to your router. Note that in the above text the quotation marks are needed but the is the ssid and password without the < >.
\nyou can test the internet connection by typing the following into the command line:
\nping google.com
\nit should come back with something like:
\n(den08s05-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:400f:802::200e)) 56 data byes
\n64 bytes from den 08s05-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:400f:802::200e): icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time 11.1ms
\netc.<\/p>\n
\n* Enter in the following commands at the console line:
\n * apt-get update<\/code>
\n * apt install -y mariadb-server<\/code>
\n * sudo systemctl start mariadb.service<\/code>
\n * sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service<\/code>
\n * mysql_secure_installation<\/code>
\n * Enter current password for root (enter for none):<\/code> <<===Just hit Enter here
\n * Set root password (Y\/n)<\/code> <<===Add in a password here by replying Y but remember this password
\n * Remove anonymous users (Y\/n)<\/code> <<===Just hit Enter here
\n * Disallow root login remotely? (Y\/n)<\/code> <<===Just hit Enter here
\n * Remove test database and access to it (Y\/n)<\/code> <<===Just hit Enter here
\n * Reload privilege tables now? (Y\/n)<\/code> <<===Just hit Enter here
\n * mysql -u root -p<\/code>
\nWhen asked use the password set above
\n From within the MySQL command prompt, type in these commands to create a database for WordPress and a user:
\n * CREATE DATABASE connectbox DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<\/code>
\n * GRANT ALL ON connectbox.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' note that if you change password then it must be changed below as well in wp-config.php
\n *<\/code>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;*<\/code>EXIT;<<===Exits you back to the regular console prompt
\n *<\/code>apt install -y php php-fpm php-common php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip php-cli php-ldap php-imagick*<\/code>nano \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/connectbox_static-site.confModify this existing line to add in<\/code>index.php` before the other index types
\nindex index.php index.html index.htm;<\/p>\nYou also need to modify the root file system to:\nroot \/var\/www\/html\/wordpress; \n\nAdd this whole section before the end of the last closing } character\n\nlocation ~ .php$ {\n include snippets\/fastcgi-php.conf;\n fastcgi_pass unix:\/var\/run\/php\/php7.0-fpm.sock;\n}\n\nlocation = \/favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }\nlocation = \/robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }\nlocation ~* .(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {\n expires max;\n log_not_found off;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\n * systemctl reload nginx<\/code><\/p>\n\n
cd \/tmp<\/code><\/li>\ncurl -LO https:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz<\/code><\/li>\ntar xzf latest.tar.gz -C \/var\/www\/html<\/code><\/li>\nsudo chown -R www-data \/var\/www\/html\/wordpress<\/code><\/li>\nsudo systemctl start mariadb.service<\/code><\/li>\nsudo systemctl enable mariadb.service<\/code><\/li>\ncd \/var\/www\/html\/wordpress<\/code><\/li>\ncp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php<\/code><\/li>\nnano wp-config.php<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\u201c The name of the database for WordPress *\/
\ndefine(‘DB_NAME’, ‘connectbox’);<\/p>\n
\ndefine(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpressuser’);<\/p>\n
\ndefine(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); <<=== note that if you change password then it must be changed below as well in wp-config.php
\nAdd in the below line somewhere in the config file:
\ndefine(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);<\/p>\nsystemctl reload nginx<\/code><\/p>\n\n
http:\/\/connectbox\/admin<\/code> into the address bar of your browser. Log in using the admin password (defaults to connectbox<\/code>). Select the Configuration<\/code> menu item, followed by Web Server<\/code>, then Static site configuration<\/code>. Toggle the buttons so that Enabled<\/code> is selected followed by clicking on the Update<\/code> button. <\/li>\n\n
sudo swapon --show<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nsudo swapoff -a<\/code>
\n * sudo fallocate -l 1G \/swapfile<\/code>
\n * sudo chmod 600 \/swapfile<\/code>
\n * sudo mkswap \/swapfile<\/code>
\n * sudo swapon \/swapfile<\/code><\/p>\n\n
sudo nano \/etc\/fstab<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
sudo swapon --show<\/code><\/p>\n
\nNAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
\n\/swapfile file 1024M 0B -2
\n\/dev\/zram1 partition 119.6M 7.3M 5<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nwe were using 100% ram before lets lower the value:<\/p>\n\n
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=60<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
sudo nano \/etc\/sysctl.conf<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
cat \/proc\/sys\/vm\/swappiness<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n