Developers guide

Chapter 5

Configuration 14

Web-based Administration Interface

PacketFence provides a web-based administration interface for easy configuration and operational

management. If you went through PacketFence’s web-based configuration tool, you should have set the

password for the admin user. If not, the default password is also admin.

Once PacketFence is started, the administration interface is available at: https://

@ip_of_packetfence>:1443/

Global configuration file (pf.conf)

The /usr/local/pf/conf/pf.conf file contains the PacketFence general configuration. For example,

this is the place where we inform PacketFence it will work in VLAN isolation mode.

All the default parameters and their descriptions are stored in /usr/local/pf/conf/

pf.conf.defaults.

In order to override a default parameter, define it and set it in pf.conf.

/usr/local/pf/conf/documentation.conf holds the complete list of all available parameters.

All these parameters are also accessible through the web-based administration interface under the

Configuration tab. It is highly recommended that you use the web-based administration interface of

PacketFence for any configuration changes.

Apache Configuration

The PacketFence´s Apache configuration are located in /usr/local/pf/conf/httpd.conf.d/.

In this directory you have three important files: httpd.admin, httpd.portal, httpd.webservice.

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httpd.admin is used to manage PacketFence admin interface

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httpd.portal is used to manage PacketFence captive portal interface

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httpd.webservices is used to manage PacketFence webservices interface

These files have been written using the Perl language and are completely dynamic - so they activate

services only on the network interfaces provided for this purpose.