Hestia Control Panel: how to activate demo mode?

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been using Hestia CP for a while, and I think I know the panel quite well, especially the documentation, but I’m having difficulty activating demo mode.

I was following this documentation CLI Reference | Hestia Control Panel

unfortunately without success. I haven’t found any other documentation on the matter.

Can someone please help me and describe the exact steps to activate the demo mode?

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

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v-change-sys-demo-mode yes

But suggest not using it unless you want to provide somebody a demo like we do…

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Thank you very much for the reply!

“yes” to activate and I suppose “no” to deactivate demo mode, correct?

I made a dedicated “demo” installation for some of my customers. So yes, I only need it for demo mode.

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v-change-sys-demo-mode no doesn’t work due to the demo check use:

sed -i "s|^DEMO_MODE=.*'|DEMO_MODE='no'|g" $HESTIA/conf/hestia.conf

Instead

We use the follow hooks in /etc/hestiacp/hooks to “prepare” the demo server after each update

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Perfect! Everything works. Thank you very much.

The last question: why aren’t the access data automatically filled in? I mean user and automatic password generation?

Is it possible to activate the function as on the Hestia website? The password is automatically filled in.

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In post_install.sh we have:

# Update templates to enable default username 
sed -i "s|autofocus|autofocus value=\"admin\"|g" $HESTIA/web/templates/pages/login/login.php
# Update templates to enable default password 
sed -i "s|autofocus|autofocus value=\"StrongSecurePassword\"|g" $HESTIA/web/templates/pages/login/login_1.php

That should do the trick…

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I do not know how to thank you…
You helped me a lot. Thanks again! :pray: