Missing menus for basic network configurations .. is it normal?

On OpenWrt I noticed that there are some basic configurations that are impossible to apply via GUI. I’ll give you two examples:

  1. By default, OpenWrt has the HTTP and HTTPS services enabled on all network interfaces.
    But what if I only want HTTPS? What if I want to change the digital certificate? What if I want to enable HTTPS only on a specific router interface? For all these basic configurations, which menu should I go to? I checked under System → Administration → HTTP(S) Access, but in this section there’s nothing, only this:

Does this mean I’m forced to do everything via the CLI? I believe it’s the same for the OpenVPN service. in VPN → OpenVPN, there’s nothing related to this either.

  1. Another menu that doesn’t show commonly used options is the DHCP configuration on an interface. In Network → Interfaces → IF_NAME → DHCP Server there’s nothing that lets me specify an IP address pool.

I wanted to know if all this is normal, or if something is wrong with my OpenWrt GUI.

Here’s my firmware version (the device is a Flint2):

OpenWrt 24.10.2 r28739-d9340319c6 / LuCI openwrt-24.10 branch 25.222.74622~4d26a4d

You want Services > uHTTPd

There should be text fields for ‘Start’ and ‘Limit’. That’s how you set the DHCP pool start address and number of addresses in it.

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