Can't create URL Alias

rosunm · Jul 8, 2011, 11:27 AM

Hello,
I tried to create a URL Alias on pfSense 2.0(2.0-RC3 (amd64)built on Mon Jul 4 16:49:48 EDT 2011 )but i get the folowing error:

The following input errors were detected:
You must provide a valid URL. Could not fetch usable data.

The URL's I tried were like: http://wwww.google.com
I can't figure out if I'm doing something wrong or there is a problem with pfSense concerning URL aliases

Nachtfalke · Jul 8, 2011, 11:44 AM

There is often a misunderstanding of this Alias.
You can NOT enter domains like google.com and so on.

You have to enter a URL to file which contains IP-addresses (not domains).

e.g.
http://www.fileserver.com/my_url_alias.txt

And the file my_url_alias.txt contains the IP-Addresses you want in this Alias.
If you change my_url_alias.txt then pfsense will do an Update for your alias after some time.

stompro · Jul 8, 2011, 2:00 PM

Rosunm, you should also take a look at this thread on how to upgrade past the July 4th snapshot.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,38687.0.html

Josh

rosunm · Jul 11, 2011, 8:16 AM

Thank you for your replies.
I managed to create the URL alias.
I also found useful this post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=24976.0