Inspired from this blog post.
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Prepare the router
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Use portfw to forward port 80 and 445 to the ip of the computer where you have certbot installed
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Enable Secure Shell from Services tab
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Enable JFFS2 Support form Administration tab
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Create the certificate files
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Install certbot
brew install certbot
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Go to a folder where you will configure certbot
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Execute certbot to create the certificate
certbot certonly --standalone --config-dir . --logs-dir . --work-dir .
If it says it cannot bind to port
80
it means you need to addsudo
to the above command. If the case then you'll need to change ownsership (chow
) of thelive
and../../archive
folders to get access in the next steps. -
cd
to./live/[your.domain]
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Create rsa key from private key
openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out key.pem
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Put the certificate files into the router
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cd to jffs
cd /jffs
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create startup folder
mkdir startup && cd startup
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create the script (
binds_on_mount.sh
) that binds certificate files and make it executablechmod +x binds_on_mount.sh
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create etc folder in jffs and cd in it
mkdir /jffs/etc && cd /jffs/etc
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create the certificate files from local certbot files
- paste contents of
key.pem
,cert.pem
andprivkey.pem
into their respective file in/jffs/etc
- paste contents of
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Remove portfw and enable Web GUI Management remote access from Administration tab
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Web Access
- Protocol: Check https and Uncheck http
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Remote Access
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Web GUI Management: Enable
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Web GUI Port: 443
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Test by executing the script and then try to access the web gui. If the browser has a green lock next to the address than everything is correct.
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Add command to execute the script on startup
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save this command as
Startup
in Administration > Commandscd /jffs/startup && ./binds_on_mount.sh > ./log
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After step 1.iii above (Enabling Internal Flash Storage) you also have to enable Clean Internal Flash Storage, hit Apply Settings and then reboot the router. Then you will have mounted the jffs folder. The confirmation of that is that below the two elements of the Administration/JFFS2 Support section, you will see something like Total / Free Size 30.06 MB / 30.03 MB.