Https redirect locks the Webgui

[daquirm3]

Hi,

I’ve set up Freenas to redirect automatically from Http to https through webgui, but from now on my webgui is not accessible, how can I revert this setting?
freenas.local 11.3-RELEASE-p9

Best regards

 

[Samuel Tai]

From the shell, run midclt call system.general.update "ui_httpsredirect":false.

 

[daquirm3]

Thanks for reply Samuel, it didn‘t go as expected:

Code:

root@freenas:~ # midclt call system.general.update "ui_httpsredirect":false
[general_settings] A dict was expected
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 130, in call_method
    io_thread=False)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 1084, in _call
    return await methodobj(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/service.py", line 301, in update
    f'{self._config.namespace}.update', self, self.do_update, [data]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 1084, in _call
    return await methodobj(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/schema.py", line 960, in nf
    args, kwargs = clean_and_validate_args(args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/schema.py", line 918, in clean_and_validate_args
    value = attr.clean(args[args_index + i])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/schema.py", line 583, in clean
    raise Error(self.name, 'A dict was expected')
middlewared.schema.Error: [general_settings] A dict was expected

 

[daquirm3]

It still redirects, but it doesn’t work...

 

[catherineva11e]

Is that iOS? do you access to a non apple device? Apple security changed how it handles HSTS (http strict transport security).

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[Samuel Tai]

Apologies, you'll have to do this via the REST API. Run this from shell: curl --basic -u root -k -X PUT "https://<your FreeNAS IP>/api/v2.0/system/general" -H "accept: */*" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"ui_httpsredirect":false}'. I verified this works on my own system.

 

[daquirm3]

Thank you for help, the problem is indeed with iOS device only, I tried to access it through Firefox/Ubuntu and the Webgui is accessible again. As I use ipad exclusively to manage everything now, it‘s kind of pitty, that FreeNAS doesn’t work with that. The API call works well, I guess service nginx restart is needed to apply the changes?

 

[Samuel Tai]

I guess service nginx restart is needed to apply the changes?

No, the API call hooks the FreeNAS middleware, which automatically restarts the HTTP and django services after applying this change.