Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 16:56 Post subject: locked out of router due to https certificate
A few days ago I set up a WAP from scratch. The last step I took was to tick the option for https access. After that I was unable to access the GUI because firefox changed the way they handle certificates.
This page used to have an advanced option where users could establish an exception for the site. But Mozilla is apparently taking a harder line on certificates recently and just refuses to go any further.
Microsoft Edge also blocks access due to "outdated or unsafe TLS security settings".
Chrome simply times out and suggests I check my internet connection.
It seems like all the browsers decided to do this at once. This will be a huge problem if I want to update firmware on my primary router or, dog forbid, need to revert to factory for any reason.
Is https access no longer viable for everyone of us? Am I maybe missing some kind of certificate configuration? What can I do to access the gui? _________________ Netgear r8000 - DD-WRT v3.0-r46380
Thank you everybody for your suggestions. And no, Per, I didn't have ssh/telnet. Setting those up are always the last step once everything else is in place. The second to last step is https.
In the end it was simpler to reset and reconfigure, this time without https. Which concerns me a little. Is this going to happen when next I upgrade the firmware on my main router as well? I admit to being out of the loop where certs are concerned. _________________ Netgear r8000 - DD-WRT v3.0-r46380
Hi all. Apologies for the thread resurrection from the dead, but came here from a Google search and I wanted to post my solution since I did not want to reset my router settings from scratch. First of all, it was dumb of me to enable HTTPS and DISABLE HTTP in the SAME settings change event, before testing if HTTPS actually worked on this thing
To get back into my router (I didn't have Telnet or SSH enabled) I opened my Ubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox and downloaded Firefox 7.0.1 from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0.1/ -- great that they have every release ever! I unzipped it, and simply ran `./firefox` from the terminal. I entered https://192.168.1.1, confirmed the security exception, and sure enough I was back in!
Enjoy
Edit: P.S. after seeing my posts on this forum, looks like I did this same mistake in 2015 and fixed it with a similar solution of using an old version of Firefox. LOL! My memory is fading in these years.
Hi all. Apologies for the thread resurrection from the dead, but came here from a Google search and I wanted to post my solution since I did not want to reset my router settings from scratch. First of all, it was dumb of me to enable HTTPS and DISABLE HTTP in the SAME settings change event, before testing if HTTPS actually worked on this thing
To get back into my router (I didn't have Telnet or SSH enabled) I opened my Ubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox and downloaded Firefox 7.0.1 from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0.1/ -- great that they have every release ever! I unzipped it, and simply ran `./firefox` from the terminal. I entered https://192.168.1.1, confirmed the security exception, and sure enough I was back in!
Enjoy
Edit: P.S. after seeing my posts on this forum, looks like I did this same mistake in 2015 and fixed it with a similar solution of using an old version of Firefox. LOL! My memory is fading in these years.
I see this with Firefox after I load an update on my router. All I have to do is to have Firefox reload the page (control F5 for instance), and then Firefox will display the page that lets you go on to accept the new certificate. _________________ Netgear R9000
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Private Browsing Mode. Specifically from experience as I use it most of the time, Pale Moon Portable in Private Browsing Mode does not have this problem. _________________ "Life is but a fleeting moment, a vapor that vanishes quickly; All is vanity"
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