[Solved] Modify nginx file

[Martin Alegre]

Hello everyone!

I tried to modify an captive portal's nginx file and after a reboot of the device or the service, the file comes back to previous configuration. Any idea of why this happen? or How to modify a file in pfsense through the CLI interface?

Thanks in advance

Regards

[doktornotor]

You cannot do this. Any modifications needs to go to the PHP code that generates the configuration.

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/captiveportal.inc#L420
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/system.inc#L1366

[Martin Alegre]

Hi!

Oh, so that was the matter… Great, I'll try to take a look on those files
Thank you a lot

Regards  :)

[heper]

don't know what you are trying todo, but you can just upload new html 'templates' through the GUI …

[Martin Alegre]

@heper:

don't know what you are trying todo, but you can just upload new html 'templates' through the GUI …

Hello heper,

the problem I have is that, on my pfSense server I've configured almost 10 captive portal zones. So beyond number 8, captive portal service didn't start. After reading nginx config files I saw that 2 of them were listening on the same port, I've tried to change it manually but the server doesn't consider this kind of modifications.

This is why I've opened this topic

Regards

[heper]

@jalegre:

@heper:

don't know what you are trying todo, but you can just upload new html 'templates' through the GUI …

Hello heper,

the problem I have is that, on my pfSense server I've configured almost 10 captive portal zones. So beyond number 8, captive portal service didn't start. After reading nginx config files I saw that 2 of them were listening on the same port, I've tried to change it manually but the server doesn't consider this kind of modifications.

This is why I've opened this topic

Regards

this sounds like a bug. if it is, please report it on redmine.pfsense.org & explain the error & fix