Move captive portal authentication to a RADIUS server and grant your privileged user access to create accounts in RADIUS.

PHP should eventually timeout when it hits the max execution time (~15 mins)

But that said, it's a classic case of "Doctor, it huts when I do this" / "Don't do that". Don't do that.

oh my, yes, you are right: I had forgotten a recent port-forwarding. SOLVED for me.
sorry for the noise  ::)

Thanks, restored config. Back in business!

Not really.  Status - Queues is about the best you can do, also Diagnostics - pfTop - Queues view.  If your shaper rules are not behaving as you expect, post them in the Traffic Shaping forum and someone will have a look.

Thanks, that did it.

Thanks Virgilio, that does actually make sense. I run into this most often when setting up DHCP reservations and I want to remove the old dynamically assigned entry.  But the extra safety does make sense.

Not sure how exactly he would think the gui would come up from the wan?  How would you of edited the rules to allow for that?  Or do you mean you hit the wan IP from the lan side??

And again did you sniff on the wan to verify traffic.  Pfsense doesn't give 2 shits what its IP address is to listen on..  So either its not listening?  Or your going to the wrong IP?  Or the traffic is not getting there..  Maybe your office IP changed? ;)

I know this is an old post but…it's been bugging me for 6 months so...  Be nice if it displayed the CPU usage all the time regardless.  Then we wouldn't have to ask these silly questions why it comes and goes. And it's not true that it disappears only when at max cpu usage.  I just built a new box on an Intel Atom CPU and it seems to only show when the speed changes. If I put no data through it and powerd -v shows it's sitting at min 500Mhz rather than max 1700Mhz it doesn't show 500 on the dashboard, it disappears while sitting at the low end as well. So what good is a part time indicator?  Part time operation to me means it's broken.

Exact same problem.  SG-4860 
Been at it for days with no solution.

Fixed it - editing the file /conf/config.xml is correct

However, I had to delete /tmp/config.cache and restart the gui to make it pick up the changes.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55895/countries-havent-adopted-metric-system

"At this time, only three countries—Burma, Liberia, and the US—have not adopted the International System of Units (SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures."

There's a known but elusive bug that sometimes disables the UI entirely, perhaps it's that simple. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6406

Enable SSH on the unit and SSH in and choose "Restart PHP-FPM" and see if your UI comes back.

Happens on the latest 2.3.2 also. In fact, just happened to me.

I suspect it's this elusive bug: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6406

I tried restarting the webconfigurator but it did nothing, never tried the other option as the box is not yet live, just rebooted.

Apparently it's more likely to happen if you leave the web page up for a period of time.

Thankfully it doesn't affect SSH, and it doesn't affect functionality, so it's an annoyance rather than a bona fide forest fire emergency.

Should be simple enough to make the table sortable. I will look into it later this week.

Usually that sort of error happens because the browser is attempting the wrong protocol on the port. For example, you might have used https://x.x.x.x:yyyy when the web server was actually set to HTTP.

You're better off starting a new thread, a lot has changed since this thread (lighttpd switched out for nginx, for one).

From a security standpoint, allowing it to run in an iframe is an awful idea, which is why we have protection against it.