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    • J
      jetberrocal
      last edited by

      @jetberrocal:

      Should I set the webgui to https before running the script or it will make the change for me?

      It seems that does not do the change for me.  I had to do it manually.

      Anyway, I am missing something, because I cant find the file on my browser.

      I saw that the file is created in /usr/local/www/wpad0/ folder.  It is named proxy.pac but has symlinks to wpad.dat and wpad.da

      I tried to download the file by entering in the browser "http://pfsense/wpad0/wpad.dat" and tried "http://pfsense/wpad.dat", but get a "File Not Found" error in the browser.

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      • marcellocM
        marcelloc
        last edited by

        @jetberrocal:

        Should I set the webgui to https before running the script or it will make the change for me?

        Manual. Set it to https and disable web gui redirect

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          @jetberrocal:

          I tried to download the file by entering in the browser "http://pfsense/wpad0/wpad.dat" and tried "http://pfsense/wpad.dat", but get a "File Not Found" error in the browser.

          Http://pfsense/proxy.pac without the wpad0 dir

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            jetberrocal
            last edited by

            @marcelloc:

            @jetberrocal:

            I tried to download the file by entering in the browser "http://pfsense/wpad0/wpad.dat" and tried "http://pfsense/wpad.dat", but get a "File Not Found" error in the browser.

            Http://pfsense/proxy.pac without the wpad0 dir

            Right now I cant test it, but why enter http twice?
            In debian webserver I dont have to do that to download the file

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            • marcellocM
              marcelloc
              last edited by

              @jetberrocal:

              Right now I cant test it, but why enter http twice?

              Cellphone keyboard trying to be smart

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                jetberrocal
                last edited by

                @marcelloc:

                @jetberrocal:

                Right now I cant test it, but why enter http twice?

                Cellphone keyboard trying to be smart

                Machine is turn off. Have to wait.

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                  jetberrocal
                  last edited by

                  @marcelloc:

                  @jetberrocal:

                  I tried to download the file by entering in the browser "http://pfsense/wpad0/wpad.dat" and tried "http://pfsense/wpad.dat", but get a "File Not Found" error in the browser.

                  Http://pfsense/proxy.pac without the wpad0 dir

                  Just tried to do http://Http://pfsense/proxy.pac.  Did not work.  Tried http://pfsense/proxy.pac, this worked.  So the problem are the symlinks.

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                    jetberrocal
                    last edited by

                    @jetberrocal:

                    @marcelloc:

                    @jetberrocal:

                    I tried to download the file by entering in the browser "http://pfsense/wpad0/wpad.dat" and tried "http://pfsense/wpad.dat", but get a "File Not Found" error in the browser.

                    Http://pfsense/proxy.pac without the wpad0 dir

                    Just tried to do http://Http://pfsense/proxy.pac.  Did not work.  Tried http://pfsense/proxy.pac, this worked.  So the problem are the symlinks.

                    Since this was a test VM I went back before installing the wpad pkg.  Make the webgui https before installing wpad.  Installed wpad and did the config for one proxy.pac.

                    Tried again with http://pfsense/wpad.dat and it worked.

                    So actually is important to make the webgui https before installing.

                    Maybe there should be an abort message in the script making the advice to do the change before running the script in full.

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                    • marcellocM
                      marcelloc
                      last edited by

                      The package will install but will not enable if you have https and redirect checkbox selected under advanced settings.

                      I'll include a test for http only configured firewall even if package description says it's useful to keep gui on https and have wpad on http.

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                        cewjr9842
                        last edited by

                        @ Marcelloc, the package will not install after i run the : sh ./install_wpad_23.sh.

                        I get this when I run : sh ./install_wpad_23.sh fromthe root directory:

                        /root: sh ./install_wpad_23.sh
                        amd64 system
                        pkg: https://github.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/raw/master/repo/pfSense-pkg-Wpad-0.2.3.txz: Not Found

                        I am on 2.3.4(amd64). Am i doing something wrong?

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                        • marcellocM
                          marcelloc
                          last edited by

                          @cewjr9842:

                          I am on 2.3.4(amd64). Am i doing something wrong?

                          No. The package info on topic was updated before I had time to update the repo.

                          https://github.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages/commit/97a00996dfa0ef4b8dc60e48e9ddbe399eebb7d8

                          I did it right now, so you can run the install script again.

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                            Cino
                            last edited by

                            Thank you marcelloc for creating this package. I've been keeping the vhost package alive on my box just for this purpose.

                            Question,  do you know of a quick way to suppress logging to the syslog? Notice its getting filled up as clients are accessing it for the wpad file. I need to dig deeper (wireshark) to see what is really causing it but figured I'd ask since I'm not familiar with nginx

                            
                            Jun 1 21:04:36 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:04:36 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)
                            Jun 1 21:04:00 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:04:00 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)
                            Jun 1 21:03:45 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:03:45 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)
                            Jun 1 21:03:20 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:03:20 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)
                            Jun 1 21:03:11 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:03:11 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort)
                            Jun 1 21:02:55 	pfsense.home.lan 		nginx: 2017/06/01 21:02:55 [error] 48243#100253: accept4() failed (53: Software caused connection abort) 
                            
                            
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                            • marcellocM
                              marcelloc
                              last edited by

                              @Cino:

                              Thank you marcelloc for creating this package. I've been keeping the vhost package alive on my box just for this purpose.

                              Thanks Cino!  :)

                              @Cino:

                              Question,  do you know of a quick way to suppress logging to the syslog?

                              Take a look on /usr/local/pkg/wpad_nginx.template file. Change the log destination to a local file for example.

                              # nginx configuration file
                                      user  root wheel;
                                      worker_processes  {$wpad_workers};
                                      pid     /var/run/nginx_wpad{$wpad_index}.pid;
                                      error_log  syslog:server=unix:/var/run/log,facility=local5;
                                      events {
                                          worker_connections  1024;
                                      }
                              .
                              .
                              .
                              
                              

                              https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-logging-and-log-rotation-in-nginx-on-an-ubuntu-vps

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                                Cino
                                last edited by

                                thank you sir!

                                Would it be possible to insert the application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig MIME?

                                /usr/local/etc/nginx/mime.types

                                
                                    application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig     pac;
                                    application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig     dat;
                                    application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig     da;
                                
                                
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                                • marcellocM
                                  marcelloc
                                  last edited by

                                  @Cino:

                                  Would it be possible to insert the application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig MIME?

                                  sure! check if new version is fine with mime types.

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                                    Cino
                                    last edited by

                                    I see what you did there. Smart, it doesn't touch the defaults. Suggestion, remove /t and add 4 spaces. This way its consistent with the rest of the file layout. I dont see any tabs.

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                                      techbee
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Marcelloc,

                                      Can you possible give us a full install documentation of this https filtering using wpad. I mean the whole setup.  I have not followed this topic since I am new here and I want to know more about this.  Thanks

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        @techbee:

                                        Hi Marcelloc,

                                        Can you possible give us a full install documentation of this https filtering using wpad. I mean the whole setup.  I have not followed this topic since I am new here and I want to know more about this.  Thanks

                                        The first topic has the install instructions. I prefer enabling the Unofficial repo and installing it using GUI, then access services -> wpad and configuring it typing suggested default settings.

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                                          jopeme
                                          last edited by

                                          After configuring wpad it is necessary to configure something more like for example dns host overrides, dhcp, firewall rules or the package takes care of all that?

                                          I am testing it from a subnet called vlan102 and if I configure it in the proxy configuration of url browsers http://pfsense.domain.local/proxy.pac file it works perfectly, but if I activate the autodectection in these browsers then it does not work.
                                          In /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx_wpad0.conf i see this:

                                          server {
                                                          listen 10.0.0.1:80;
                                                          server_name wpad.localdomain
                                                          server name 127.0.0.1
                                                          client_max_body_size 200m;

                                          I think it is stranger that server name is wpad.localdomain? and 127.0.0.1 ? My lan ip address is 10.0.0.1

                                          These are my rules in this interface (second rule is necessary to load http://pfsense.domain.local/proxy.pac) and all http and https go to 3128 squid port:

                                          Thanks.

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                                          • marcellocM
                                            marcelloc
                                            last edited by

                                            For autodetect, you need to configure wpad.your.domain.local to resolve fw ip address and also define wpad records on dns.

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