That section of the docs needs to be updated. You can use chilli without the redir module as long as the "redir" config option is set to zero. It will still do basic redirects but it won't be able to do stuff like redirects using regular expressions.
I hope this helps. F. On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 at 05:35, Iván Ledesma Obelar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > > after much trouble I managed to deploy all the modules necessary to > provide a wifi hotspot service, but when trying to test the captive portal > features in the demo system I came up with the following notice: > > > > *Warning* > > Unfortunately, at the moment, installing Coova-Chilli from the OpenWrt > packages will not work because the default configuration of the > Coova-Chilli OpenWrt package does not enable the chilli-redir feature, nor > has SSL support enabled, which will not allow the captive portal to > redirect the user to the captive page and will not support HTTPs requests. > > > > Consequently I could connect to the Openwisp Wifi Demo SSID, but I wasn´t > allocated an IP by the demo system. > > > > Is there right now any workaround to the above issue, so that I can > provide wifi hotspot service during Summer? > > > > Regards, > > > > Iván Ledesma Obelar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenWISP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/DB9P192MB133976CC302B97B461AA39BDCD29A%40DB9P192MB1339.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/DB9P192MB133976CC302B97B461AA39BDCD29A%40DB9P192MB1339.EURP192.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/CAAGgX6%2BrK36dj-UJ7G5SUE4-nifDxQUpMBXTvJ1soz1Nu1OvPw%40mail.gmail.com.
