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lkraav
Asked: 2014-08-26 07:43:41 +0800 CST

How to get an unprivileged public status page showing in OpenWrt 12.09 or newer?

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For the use case where the WAN connection goes down, but employees can still access wifi, I'd like them to be able to check on some sort of a public router status page in their problem reports. This may have been available on DD-WRT at one point (or still is), I can't 100% recall anymore.

Going through all LuCI's screens with a fine-toothed comb and googling a fair amount isn't producing results. Anyone have a solution?

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2 Answers

  1. It can be achieved easily but can be a threat to your netwrok security (eg: The client MAC addresses are not masked). Better use Michael Hampton's suggestion to create your own status page with the API.

    1. Create /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/overview.lua

      module("luci.controller.overview", package.seeall)

function index()
    assign({"overview"}, {"admin", "status", "overview"}, nil)
end

    2. Run rm -rf /tmp/luci-indexcache /tmp/luci-modulecache/

    3. Logout from luci interface

    4. Visit http://192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci/overview (change the IP according to your setup)

    5. Add /usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/overview.lua to /etc/sysupgrade.conf so it survives upgrades

    Anyway, you can always strip down/modify the admin->status->overview page Lua codes and add it to a new public page. Adding new pages on Luci web interface is also quite easy.

    More info:

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  2. Best Answer

    DD-WRT had a public status page (which can be a security risk); OpenWrt does not.

    However, LuCI does have an API, so you could write your own status page pretty quickly, and secure it properly.

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