No Luci by using Menuconfig

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Hi,
by trying to get contact to Luci, I will receive the message redircect to cgi-bin/luci and then Webbrowser struggles...

Now some more informations:

I used OpenWrt for 2 years now, and now I will try to set up a new router from scratch by using menuconfig (I like to add some additional packages but using opkg will fail in memory shortage...).

  • Installed lede including feefs (script) on a debian linux system and could run make and reveive Binaries

  • Updated from stockfirmware to a Lede snapshot first and set fixed IP at LAN and thenafter updated to the own Binary

  • run this image and contact via ssh (as well via Serial Console - I bricked to box some days before and soldered the Serial to an UART-USB Connector and debricked to box with TFTP + Serial).

Menuconfig with very basic changes (see config.seed):
CONFIG_TARGET_ar71xx=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ar71xx_generic=y
CONFIG_TARGET_ar71xx_generic_DEVICE_tl-wdr3600-v1=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_liblua=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libubus-lua=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_libuci-lua=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_lua=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-base=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-lib-ip=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-lib-jsonc=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-lib-nixio=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-mod-admin-full=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci-theme-bootstrap=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_rpcd=y

I do some hours of looking through howtos and from threads but Ive got still no goal, why standard snapshot comes with luci, and my config fails...

Any hint?

Best Regards

Bergy

2

AYea noticed this aswel.
However if you install luci ssl it works without having to start the service. Run this on putty:

/etc/init.d/uhttpd start
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable

And see if it works.
Source: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/luci.essentials

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    CONFIG_PACKAGE_luci=y
4

Hi,

I was absolutely (better say mostly) sure to walk through the Luci menu starting at collection and select luci at first.
For some reason it was unselected running luci again.

Im afraid that selecting Packages with Space Key (and thereby toggling dependencies on and off) does switch off luci and doesnt switch em on by selecting other luci options (Theme for example)...

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When you compile your own image you have to uncheck the everything from bottom to top. This applies to other packages like ppp and whine you disable the wifi drivers in the Kernel Modules menu.
About the GUI not working, I assume you are trying to add standard luci to your I get right? I had this same issue where I had to enable it through ssh.
What you can do is add the script someone posted above and add it on your

etc/rc.local

And it will run it as soon as you turn the router on.
This bug doesn't happen if you install lucí-ssl.
Good luck.