Then, I bought my first house and that one device just couldnt give me the coverage I needed.
![]() I ended up replacing it with a Linksys E4200 and flashing DD-WRT onto it. At the same time, I decided I was tired of the wireless issues and was going to fix it, and started looking around. Thats when I settled on Ubiquiti, theyre pretty good bang for the buck, you get some enterprise features at a consumer price. One being true mesh with the ability to properly hand off a device between APs, and another being a management console, which is the focus of this post. Its kind of a pain as it runs on JavaTomcat, doesnt have a true installer, and is a little bit interesting to get setup to run reliably as a service. Some time later, I installed VMWare ESXi on some hardware I had laying around and spun up a CentOS 6 VM to do some testing with. Ubiquiti Dd-Wrt Software Onto ItAfter its original purpose had been served, I decided to keep it around and install the UniFi controller software onto it. Thats when I discovered that Ubiquiti only has official packages for DebianUbuntu. I followed it, and was able to get the controller up and running, but it really seemed like far too much work for something so relatively simple. This doesnt affect the operation of the APs at all, once theyre configured they will run independent of the controller, its only if you want to login to the console that youll realize it has crapped out. Another quick googling came up with some unofficial packages put together by members of the Ubiquiti community forums. While they are unofficial they did get the blessing of Ubiquiti as seen here. The only prerequisite is to enable the EPEL repository to be able to get the mongodb package. This is running on an embedded instance of tomcat under a user other than root, so while you can modify it to redirect port 80, its not quite so simple. I decided just to install nginx with a minimal config to redirect port 80 to 8443 instead. Then go to the same spot on the new controller and restore the backup you just downloaded. Currently working as a Senior Endpoint Engineer specializing in Microsoft SCCM.
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