How captive portal restart with CLI?

magura · Dec 8, 2015, 2:02 AM

How captive portal restart with CLI?
Sometimes fail to appear on the authentication page.
So I want to use cron scheduled restart.

Version 2.1.5-RELEASE (i386)
built on Mon Aug 25 07:44:26 EDT 2014
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16

cmb · Dec 8, 2015, 2:14 AM

There isn't a way to "restart" captive portal in that sense.

First, upgrade. Then if the problem recurs, troubleshoot what the problem actually is. Are affected users actually making a HTTP request to be redirected? If so, if they browse straight to the portal page, does it load? Do clients that are already authenticated continue to work?

Gertjan · Dec 8, 2015, 8:20 AM

Probably the "prune cron task" that dies … a problem that was seen more often in the past.
Keeping an old version is keeping old problems ;)

aneip · Dec 14, 2015, 8:05 AM

Most probably lighttpd crash.. Try check the ps output. You can restart lighttpd by selecting Restart WebGUI on the console menu.

jimp · Dec 17, 2015, 7:05 PM

You can restart the lighttpd instance associated with a captive portal at the CLI, but it's different than actually saving on the CP settings to reinitialize the portal:

: ps uxawww | grep "[l]ight.*testz"
root    54907   0.0  2.4  46636  5472  -  S     2:03PM     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-testzone-CaptivePortal.conf
: pfSsh.php playback svc restart captiveportal testzone

Starting the pfSense developer shell....

Attempting to issue restart to captiveportal service...

captiveportal has been restarted.
: ps uxawww | grep "[l]ight.*testz"
root    58835  1.0  2.4  46636  5472  -  S     2:04PM     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-testzone-CaptivePortal.conf