You have a lot in that post… (note: there are some API issues due to work on the system right now)
Not sure when you started all these efforts, but Flex had a Denial of Service attack yesterday which made everything fairly wonky yesterday 20+ hours ago.
If you see the miner working, great.
If you see the results showing up on your pools wallet address, greater.
If you can get into the Shell/Shellinabox/SSH, you should be able to switch back to the main prompt by following the commands “ctrl+a d”
Enter helpme at that prompt and it should look familiar to you.