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title: Troubleshooting for Unit 7 Lab

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title: Troubleshooting for Unit 7 Lab  
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### Troubleshooting for Unit 7 Lab 

- Challenge 0:
    - Restart after installing Vagrant

#### Challenge 1:

##### Issue 1: 
- hosts-updater is not properly adding the IP mapping due to the lack of admin privilege. Running powershell in administrator fails to resolve the issue. 
##### Solution 1: 
    Run notepad in admin, and open the hosts file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. 
    - Manually add the IP mapping as shown below, and save the file.
    -  192.168.33.10       wpdistillery.vm
    -  Run vagrant up.
##### Solution 2:
    Downgrade the vagrant hostsupdater to version 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 so the IP mapping can function.
    - vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater --plugin-version=1.2.1
    - vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater --plugin-version=1.2.2
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Note 1: Removing hosts-updater plugin and manually editing the host files works.
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##### Issue 2: 
- Firefox addons such as DuckDuckGo Essentials or Facebook Container may cause the http://wpdistillery.vm/ to be stuck in loading.

#####  Solution 1: 
    Run in private window and slowly allow addons to be run in private to identify which is the cause.

##### Solution 2: 
    Load http://wpdistillery.vm/ into a different browser. 


#### Challenge 2: 
- No issues found - working as expected.

#### Challenge 3:
- No issues found - working as expected.

#### Challenge 4:
- Get API Token from https://wpscan.com/
##### Issue: 
- Performing wpscan --update may cause scan to abort due to characters found that can't be used to start any token.

##### Solution:
- Space the api_token: YOUR_API TOKEN by two spacebar instead of one tab
```console
NO:
    api_token
```
```console
YES:
  api_token
```
#### Challenge 6:
- No issues found - working as expected.

#### Challenge 7:

##### Issue: 
- If receiving a Not Found page. Double check the permalink is set to Default. The settings may have resetted after performing vagrant destroy.

##### Solution: 
- In the Admin page, go to the setting and click permalinks. Set it to Default.