Acme - action list web server restart

Gertjan

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When using

Restart the GUI on this firewall: Select "Shell Command" and enter /etc/rc.restart_webgui

as an action, then also all captive portal instances are restarted (see /etc/rc.restart_webgui) , making this one :

Restart a local captive portal instance: Select "Restart Local Service" and enter captiveportal zonename replacing zonename with the zone to restart.

not needed.
When used, the listed captive portal instances restart twice.

Btw : not the fault of "acme" package, but take note : when a certificate gets renewed and the GUI gets restarted, all captive portal visitors will be thrown of the portals.
Discovered here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=144606.0

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jimp

A certificate may be used on a captive portal zone that is different from the GUI certificate. Someone might want to restart a portal zone but not the GUI.

Gertjan

;D
That "someone" was me : a certificate for the portal.(mydomane.tld) and another certificate for pfsense.(mydomane.tld) hosted on another NIC.
True, I could have combined these two into one certificate.

These days I simplified maintenance, and I use a (one) wildcard cert.

Btw : not related to acme :
Restarting the GUI is completely harmless - I'm the only "user" anyway.
Restarting the portal does have an impact as explained above.