Adblock Control on pcWRT Login Screen Not Working

[WarrenHolt]

I am running pcWRT Newifi-D2 v2.5.3 on a Windows 10 machine.

Previously, the Adblock Control button on the login screen turned on and off Adblock and indicated it with a change in the login screen Adblock button content. Recently, this has not been working (sorry, don’t recall what pcWRT version). I press the button and a blank screen appears. Then some time after that I get the “Bad Gateway” page.

I looked at the source of the blank page and have the following meta tag: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=/cgi-bin/pcwrt/adblock” />
When I apply the given URL to my pcWRT address, it goes directly to the “Bad Gateway” screen.

[support]

You might be using proxy settings in your browser. We’re looking into this and will get back with you. Thanks!

[pcwrtuser001]

I too have a similar problem. Recently purchased the PW-AX1800 last week, which is on the latest firmware (pcWRT PW-AX1800 v2.5.9). The Ad Block Control on the pcWRT Login Screen is not working. The stats for the “Number of ads blocked today: 0” does not update, plus the stop, pause, and play buttons are not responsive. I confirmed that the ad block is working by reviewing the stats on the “Apps / Access Control / Internet Logs” page. Is this a bug? What is the best way to fix this?

[support]

For now, you need to use the HTTP protocol for ad block control. We’ll add support for HTTPS later.

[WarrenHolt]

I go to my login page via http and can log in fine.
At the login page, before I login, I can press Adblock Control. The url is STILL http, but, after enough time I get: Bad Gateway The process did not produce any response.
I can copy the Adblock Control url, change http to https, and the same sequence as above happens.
I have done this on two different browsers – Mozilla Seamonkey and Firefox.
Pressing the My Local IP Address – works fine as well.
I am running pcWRT version: pcWRT Newifi-D2 v2.5.8

[WarrenHolt]

Oh, PS: I use no proxy. I connect directly to the internet.

[support]

@warrenholt Can you try rebooting the router and see if it helps?

[WarrenHolt]

Since my original post, I have rebooted the router at least 2 times.
However, I just finished rebooting the router, did a quick check to see if I could reach the internet, and I could, the tried Adblock Control again.
It still waits for a period of time then presents the Bad Gateway page. The reboot changed nothing.

[support]

@warrenholt Please send a copy of your backup file to [email protected]. We’ll see if any settings is causing trouble on the ad block control page. Thanks!

[WarrenHolt]

So for those of you who have found this issue, I can say it has been successfully fixed for me. After support looked over and tested their test routers with the backup file I sent them, they almost didn’t find it. But eventually, they found the issue.

On the settings – system page is the Hosts box. At some time I had entered the URL of my pcWRT router for local host (e.g. 192.168.0.10 localhost). Then on the Log In page, the Adblock Control link must have been using that to tell Adblock what URL to block ads on. But it did not succeed and ended up at the Bad Gateway Page (and if that is not exactly what was happening, support can chime in and provide the technical details).

But bottom line, what fixed it was changing the Host box localhost setting to: 127.0.0.1 localhost. That fixed me. Hope it fixes you as well.

[bolozinaction]

But bottom line, what fixed it was changing the Host box localhost setting to: 127.0.0.1 localhost. That fixed me. Hope it fixes you as well.

That’s the section within System?

[WarrenHolt]

Yes – Login to your router. Select “Settings – System”, then scroll all the way down to the bottom and you find the “Hosts” section (box). Then you can edit what is in there making sure you save it when done. If you do not have a “127.0.0.1 localhost” entry, maybe adding one will do the trick.

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