[Commotion-discuss] Can't get past luci admin page
Dan Staples
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Fri Jun 13 12:19:56 EDT 2014
And I should have clarified that the admin sections of the web interface
are only available over HTTPS.
On 06/13/2014 12:13 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> 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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