Router Landing page option!

[slahm]

I would love to see an option to enable a redirect for users who want to quickly get to luci, and forget to type in the path, and do not want a bookmark etc. I cannot see why this would be a bad option to have, I created one, which works amazing, I just added a second page, and changed the index file at the first line of
/etc/nginx/conf.d/gl.conf

Here is the AI generated, super simple code if anyone wants!

indexbutton.zip (815 Bytes)

[9b9e69c2-4b75-4420]

LuCI is buried under System for a reason. Unaware users can get real confused real fast and nuke their configuration real quick but more importantly GL.iNet's customisations/API isn't fully sync'd with LuCI's uci. Here's an example:

Flint 3 - Reserved IP Addresses

I created reservations in the Flint 3 GUI to set up MAC to IP address mappings. That worked as expected. I then opened Advanced Settings and examined Luci settings. After doing that, the mappings no longer show in the main GUI as expected, though the clients still get the expected IP addresses.

Here's a non-AI generated .sh so you can quickly make backups as snapshots before getting all 'experimental.'

Issue resolving hosts by name

Weird. I hate to say it but I'd nuke it all & start over. It ain't much but here's something handy to help save states as you build up a clean config: #!/bin/sh HOST="$(uci show system.@system[0].hostname | cut -d "'" -f '2')" DOMAIN="$(uci show dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].domain | cut -d "'" -f '2')" timestamp="$(env TZ=UTC date +'%Y%m%dT%H%M%Z')" sysupgrade --create-backup /tmp/backup-"${HOST}"."${DOMAIN}"-"${timestamp}".tar.gz exit 0 Throw that into a script file & run it as a check point any time …

[slahm]

Oh I agree it should be buried, I would not expect something like this as a default.

Thanks for the backup ideas, I use my own script though...

But the login can come in handy, it is way quicker than waiting for an older mango etc to load its pages, and does not tie up that memory(mine is on the edge), and there is very little difference for advanced users, who would be using your 'Advanced' link in the first place, why not place an option THERE to make a second login avaliable or something. You have more than basic users, as shown clearly by your forums.

Anyways, not super important, I was just showing what I made in case others like it. Your more tame users would not be able to install it anyways!

[9b9e69c2-4b75-4420]

... just wait until you start scripting uci calls/pushes over passwordless/pubkey ssh or even get into Ansible for OpenWrt. You're gonna laugh at the system resources burnt up by running a GUI. You'll exec /etc/init.d/uhttpd disable in no time.

uHTTPd still in firmware?

I strongly disagree. Nginx should be removed. It's bloat. There's no need for a multi-process, web server capable of c10k requiring over 15x the flash space and 37.4x the RAM when OWRT is a single seat administered, embedded system. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 673.6K Oct 17 2024 /usr/sbin/nginx* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44.4K Oct 17 2024 /usr/sbin/uhttpd* ps -w | grep nginx | grep -v 'grep' && ps -w | grep uhttpd | grep -v 'grep' 4373 root 7008 S nginx: master proce…

[slahm]

Yeah, I am not quite there yet, there are some things I need luci for, but mostly I ssh in... Just more things to wrap my head around! Keeps you young!

[9b9e69c2-4b75-4420]

Then hack away to your heart's content! I know the fun of voiding warranties but I do prefer a snapshot/rollback system during testing before pushing it out before relying on it.

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