[Commotion-discuss] Can't get past luci admin page

[Dan Staples]

Hi Andrew,

These are all running DR2, right? You haven't upgraded them to version 1
yet?

The first thing that comes to mind is that it's a firewall issue. When a
Commotion router gets a DHCP lease for its ethernet interface from an
upstream router, it treats any connections over ethernet as coming from
the unsafe "wan" zone. Therefore, there is a firewall rule blocking
connections to the HTTPS admin web interface (though HTTP and SSH are
allowed).

To get around this, you could connect to the router's access point and
freely use the admin web interface, or you could, over ethernet, SSH
into the node and temporarily turn off the firewall with
`/etc/init.d/firewall stop` (or just add a firewall opening for port 443
in /etc/config/firewall and restart the firewall).

If that doesn't work, let us know!

Dan

On 06/13/2014 12:00 PM, Andrew Jawitz wrote:
> Hello All,
>    I have a really important meeting today where I was hoping to Demo
> some of the Ubiquiti routers I have running Commotion.  I have a Bullet,
> Pico and Nano of which all were flashed with Commotion Developer Release
> 2 dr2.  I wanted to upgrade today before the demo, however I'm having
> the same problem on all devices where I can't get past a certain point
> on the configuration page.  
>   I'm able to pull up the landing page easily by looking up the DHCP ip
> address on my home router (which is running Advanced Tomato).  Typing
> the ip address in the URL brings me to the Luci admin screen from which
> the only link that seems to work is "Local Applications".  I managed to
> get into the Admin sign-in by inputing the ------/cgi-bin/luci/admin
> address manually and eliminating the last backslash.  From here I'm able
> to login using my password and it brings me to the Configuration dialog.
>  I can save and apply using the dialog but anything else just seems to
> time out.  Even when I try the manual URL method as before.  Any idea
> whats going wrong?  As I mentioned before, I have them connected to my
> router which is running Advanced Tomato and may have some custom
> settings tripping it up somewhere.  Still its strange that it lets me
> get this far but no further...  On the other hand, if anyone is familiar
> with Tomato, its possible I may be able to tweak something on the router
> end if that turns out to be the issue.
>    Otherwise, can anybody point me to the most recent instructions for
> resetting via TFTP?
> 
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