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RN102 webserver admin access
If I enable the webserver it works fine. But how do I then access the admin webpages, since all access is directed to the website folder Alan
The web server should only re-direct http. https explicity to /admin should still get you to the admin page. You can do that diorectly in your browser or via RAIDar.
But latest Firefox (84.0) under Xubuntu 20.04LTS refuses to accept the security certificate as follows:
192.168.1.233 uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.
So I have to allow an exception, so connection drops back to insecure http. So both https and http act the same. Is there any solution to that?
That is normal. The NAS uses a self-signed certificate. You can just accept it and thus make it an exception in your browser and you won't be prompted with the security warning anymore. Accepting warning this and proceeding should not make the connection revert to HTTP, it should stay as HTTPS.
If you ever see a warning like this while browsing the Internet, then don't proceed! You are only proceeding here because you know it is your NAS and you trust the relationship between your PC and the NAS. HTTPS certificate warnings are a way for your browser to warm you of potential man-in-the-middle attacks which can very well be the case if you browse some remote server somewhere (i.e. the Internet), but for your NAS it is perfectly fine to allow the browser to proceed and make the exception.
Have just tried this again
If I accept the exception, then it appears that HTTPS is not used, i.e. all access is to the webpages via HTTP. This is true for both Firefox and Chromium.
I tested this by accessing via HTTPS, accepting the exception, and then enabling webserver and keeping that firefox tab open - don't close it otherwise you can't turn webserver off again!
Opening another tab using HTTPS should give me the admin pages - but it doesn't
Opening another tab using standard HTTP also gives me the webpages
So it appears that this is broken - or I am missing something
Alan
What does the address bar say? Click on the address bar and see if says HTTP or HTTPS in-front at the start.
I am going to attach a picture of my Firefox when accessing my NAS.
Notice how it says the connection is not secure when I click on the padlock, though it still uses HTTPS as per the address bar. The non-secure warning is in relation to the self-signed certificate. The connection is still HTTPS.
You can alternatively disable HTTP access to force the NAS to use HTTPS at all times, for the admin page. Would be an easy fix.
Note, pictures can take some time to come through.
Cheers
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