Thanks for clearing that up. I was a bit confused because as you said, running extension would
basicaly be running pfSense, and I
remember the topic months back about having extensions and pretty much everyone just pointed out
that this is not what m0n0wall is
about. When I saw that on the webpage my first thought was "Has m0n0wall changed its focus?"

Sean Waite



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Taylor <PaulTaylor at winn dash dixie dot com>
To: Sean Waite <swaite at sbn dash services dot com>, m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:49:52 -0400
Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] 3rd party extensions?

> 
> While this was attributed to me, I actually only implemented code
> modifications made by Livio (leofante at gawab dot com) with minor modifications.
> Since I don't actually have any extensions that use this system, I mostly
> implemented his mods, then performed some testing to make sure that those
> modifications did not break the user manager functionality.
> 
> Basically, extensions were a feature that some people wanted, so a basic
> framework was put into place.  Extensions are not supported by Monowall in
> any real fashion, though.  Bringing up ideas for further extending this
> functionality on the list will probably be largely ignored. 
> 
> When I implemented the User Manager, it broke support for extensions that
> had a web gui component.  Livio was kind enough to look through the code and
> came up with an alternative way for extensions to work with the user manager
> feature.  Here are the instructions that he sent with his code
> modifications:
> 
>  Now in order to have the extensions working you have to:
>  
>  1) Add a new file named "extensions.inc" in /usr/local/www with the
> list of all the pages and the description of your extensions:
> Example:
>  <?php
>  $tmp['ext/apm/apm.php'] = "Extensions: apm"; 
>  $tmp['ext/rrd/graph_rrd.php'] = "Extensions: rrd: graph"; ?>
>  
> 2) Add a new file named "menu2.inc" in every extension dir.
> The first line is the label that is used in the Extensions submenu on
> m0n0 web page then a list of the pages (one per line), the first line of
> this list is the page associated with the label.
> Example:
> Apm
> ext/apm/apm.php
>  
> if there are more than one extension all the lines in extensions.inc
> must match with all the entries you have put in all the menu2.inc.
>  
> 3)add these two links in every extension dir lrwxr-xr-x  .htpasswd -> 
> ../../.htpasswd lrwxr-xr-x  gui.css -> ../../gui.css the first is 
> necessary because without it not all the $_SERVER variable are present and
> some of  the missing one are used to authenticate the user. the second is
> used to access the css file from the included part of the page (fbegin.inc
> etc)
> 
> (Back to Paul again)
> Note that #3 above is not needed because I added code to programmatically
> add these links at boot time.
> 
> Basically, to add extensions to Monowall you need to be able to build your
> own Monowall installation.  If extensions could be loaded at run-time and
> stay across reboots.. Well, you'd be running pfSense then.. :)    That's not
> really what Monowall is all about, though...
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Waite [mailto:swaite at sbn dash services dot com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:58 PM
> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Subject: [m0n0wall] 3rd party extensions?
> 
> I just saw this on the website in reference to 1.23b1
> 
> "added support for 3rd party extensions in the group management and dynamic
> menu system (ptaylor)"
> 
> I can't seem to locate any information on this. I did see two references to
> this in the mailing list, but alas not much information was
> provided. Can someone please give me an overview of what this is? I suspect
> this probably isnt much as there does not seem to be much
> info (or "chatter" so to speak :).
> 
> 
> 
> Sean Waite
> 
> 
> 
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