[2.0-RC3-IPv6] Captive Portal Port 8000 not reachable

CrisvG

Hi all,

I am running 2.0-RC3-IPv6 (amd64) and I have an issue that is reported here : http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1700 (though not for this version)

I tried to beat the system by manualy adjust the /var/etc/lighty-CaptivePortal.conf to bind to all addresses again instead of only the localhost.

However, after I restart the captive portal this conf file is overwritten.
I even tried to chmod it 444 but that doesn't work either.

This is the part that is currently my problem (i think) –>


## bind to port (default: 80)
server.bind     = "127.0.0.1"
server.port  = 8000
$SERVER["socket"]  == "127.0.0.1:8000" { }
$SERVER["socket"]  == "[::1]:8000" {
 }

This makes the captive portal in-accessible from outside the localhost.

How can I "fix" this until the bug is officially fixed? Any ideas anyone?
Removing the lines is no use as the file is overwritten every time.

Oh , i forgot to mention that this issue might only appear on the IPv6 release.. but i cannot confirm that.

cmb

@CrisvG:

(though not for this version)

That is for that version, 2.0-IPv6 is really 2.1-IPv6 as classified in redmine and as it will be for release. You can edit the file that generates that in /etc/inc/captiveportal.inc.

CrisvG

@cmb:

@CrisvG:

(though not for this version)

That is for that version, 2.0-IPv6 is really 2.1-IPv6 as classified in redmine and as it will be for release. You can edit the file that generates that in /etc/inc/captiveportal.inc.

Hi ,

I managed to make it work. Unfortunatly before i read your reaction.

This is what I did (not sure if its best practise , but it works)

I have altered the /etc/inc/system.inc file

Old


 if($captive_portal == true) {
                $lighty_config .= "server.bind  = \"127.0.0.1\"\n";
                $lighty_config .= "server.port  = {$lighty_port}\n";
                $lighty_config .= "\$SERVER[\"socket\"]  == \"127.0.0.1:{$lighty_port}\" { }\n";
                $lighty_config .= "\$SERVER[\"socket\"]  == \"[::1]:{$lighty_port}\" { \n";

New


 if($captive_portal == true) {
                $lighty_config .= "server.bind  = \"0.0.0.0\"\n";
                $lighty_config .= "server.port  = {$lighty_port}\n";
                $lighty_config .= "\$SERVER[\"socket\"]  == \"0.0.0.0:{$lighty_port}\" { }\n";
                $lighty_config .= "\$SERVER[\"socket\"]  == \"[::1]:{$lighty_port}\" { \n";

This did the job for me. Now the /var/etc/lighty-CaptivePortal.conf file is not overwritten to the "default" settings anytime i make the change there.

eri--

I had opened a bug report about this on redmine.pfsense.org since i found out as well this.

The solution might be more involved and can be followed through that ticket.

bardelot

Instead of editing the file and having lighty bind to all addresses you could add a port forward rule to redirect the traffic on the captive portal enabled interface to the localhost.

jilingshu

@bardelot:

Instead of editing the file and having lighty bind to all addresses you could add a port forward rule to redirect the traffic on the captive portal enabled interface to the localhost.

This is a good idea and I have configured my server for it. I will test it later :-)
BTW: It seems like the configurations about Hard timeout and Radius host cannot be saved. Every time I return to edit page, it would shown as 60min and empty. Is this a bug?

jilingshu

Yeee, the method I mentioned before can work perfectly. :-)
~~However, it seems Captive Portal cannot save most configuration. Why?~~ I think I should open a new thread on this.