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    Restarting captive portals through Action List does not work as intended

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      lorenzom
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      Hi people,

      We use Acme Certificate to retrieve a wildcard cert from Let's Encrypt. We use the cert, among other things, for 2 captive portal instances. When a new cert is issued and retrieved, the captive portals should be restarted in order to update the cert used over HTTPS.

      See my action list below:
      e1f33674-951b-423c-ba31-22343a0f3ed0-grafik.png

      Actions 3 and 4 are being executed without any problem. Actions 1 and 2 seem to have no effect at all, though.
      The old certificate will eventually expire, and users will start getting TLS errors when using the captive portals.
      To fix this, I just need to go to Services > Captive Portal > Edit the captive portal > Click on the restart button. The new cert is loaded, and everything works.

      Captive portals:
      ec5faf1b-0d1d-44ea-bdbf-7ffef8d4ff79-grafik.png

      Why are the action list entries not working?

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        marcosm Netgate
        last edited by

        Likely the same root issue as https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16030. Update to the latest pfSense version and it should work if so.

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