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    Restoring Webgui on Pfsense

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    • D
      dedeboy
      last edited by

      Hello, everyone!

      I'm new here the forum, but I am writing my first topic. I need help.

      I am studying pfsense but I set my WebGUI pfsense and accidently I dropped some settings defaults the pfsense, now I need restore default the WebGUI. I would like to know how to do this? I was searching the forum but I didn't find it some issue.

      (Ps. Sorry my English, because I'm not native :)

      Thanks.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        It is not clear from your post which settings you mean or what the problem is.

        If it is a recent change you made, visit Diagnostics > Backup/Restore on the Configuration History tab. From there you can go back a few configuration revisions to undo recent changes. You can also do this from the console or ssh using option 15 from the menu.

        If you want to start back over from a completely default configuration, you can perform a factory reset to default settings by using the GUI (Diagnostics > Factory Defaults) or ssh/console option 4.

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          dedeboy
          last edited by

          @jimp:

          It is not clear from your post which settings you mean or what the problem is.

          If it is a recent change you made, visit Diagnostics > Backup/Restore on the Configuration History tab. From there you can go back a few configuration revisions to undo recent changes. You can also do this from the console or ssh using option 15 from the menu.

          If you want to start back over from a complete default configuration, you can perform a factory reset to default settings by using the GUI (Diagnostics > Factory Defaults) or ssh/console option 4.

          Thank you very much for help me jimp, So I made Factory Default for option 4, but I would want to know whether possibility to do Factory Default only WebGui without changing the settings Pfsense Server.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            If you factory reset it resets everything. There isn't a way to just reset one section related to the GUI. It still isn't clear what settings you are talking about though. Any number of things could affect the behavior and operation (and reachability) of the GUI.

            You need to more clearly define what happened and what you cannot do that you could do before, for example.

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              dedeboy
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              If you factory reset it resets everything. There isn't a way to just reset one section related to the GUI. It still isn't clear what settings you are talking about though. Any number of things could affect the behaviour and operation (and reachability) of the GUI.

              You need to more clearly define what happened and what you cannot do that you could do before, for example.

              I went in "Firewall -> Rules" and I dropped the rules to connect the Internet and now I can't access nor Domain I know create ports for them, but I would like come back that rules default for I just disable that rules and the future setting I do and doesn't work.

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan
                last edited by

                Using username "admin".
                Authenticating with public key "rsa-key-xxxxxxxxxx"
                Passphrase for key "rsa-key-xxxxxxxxx":
                *** Welcome to pfSense 2.3.4-RELEASE (amd64 full-install) on pfsense ***
                
                 WAN (wan)       -> rl0        -> v4/DHCP4: 192.168.10.11/24
                 LAN (lan)       -> fxp0       -> v4: 192.168.1.1/24
                                                  v6: 2001:470:1f13:5c0:2::1/64
                 PORTAL (opt1)   -> sis0       -> v4: 192.168.2.1/24
                 HENETV6 (opt2)  -> gif0       -> v6: 2001:470:1f12:5c0::2/128
                
                 0) Logout (SSH only)                  9) pfTop
                 1) Assign Interfaces                 10) Filter Logs
                 2) Set interface(s) IP address       11) Restart webConfigurator
                 3) Reset webConfigurator password    12) PHP shell + pfSense tools
                 4) Reset to factory defaults         13) Update from console
                 5) Reboot system                     14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)
                 6) Halt system                       15) Restore recent configuration
                 7) Ping host                         16) Restart PHP-FPM
                 8) Shell
                
                Enter an option:
                

                "Option 4" will reset everything - thus your firewall rules will be gone.
                A choice like "reset only firewall rules on interface x" doesn't exist.

                (and that's why it is a smart thing to backup your settings often in the beginning  ;)) (even smarter people are backing up all the time  ;D )

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  If it's a recent change, like the last thing you did, then using the configuration history to step back to before that change is the simplest way to get back to a working setup.

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