@stephenw10 I tried again today. This time I used my latest config backup in version 2.6, deleted the said rule and its duplicates (size 398KB), and then rebooted. It booted up properly with config size 399KB. I initially got no internet and later found my LAN interface rule, which allows any sources/ports was missing. Adding the rule back and the internet was back. I tried changing a few configurations and the config file has not grown like before. I'll keep monitoring whether there will be any other side effects. Thanks. update on Oct 2, 2023: The problem has been permanently fixed, though I don't know how such Openvpn wizard creation xml section was there.

@Gertjan that's what i have done sunday! i was surprised that it didn't worked, but i saw the cable was still in the yellow of port of the netgear....i put it in the right port and everything goes well!

@nadvig23 said in Acces webui need to open 443????: Do i need to open port 443 from the consol shell? No. By default the LAN has a rule (the anti lock-out rule) that passes traffic to the webgui on the LAN IP. If you can't connect to it first make sure the client is actually in the LAN subnet. Steve