Hotspot greyed out saying invalid not https

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi

I have tried everything on my RB2011U router with OS 6.5 trying to get hotspot working on wlan 1 (or any interface)
i have now reset the configuration and still hitting the same problem;

when I make the hotspot it appears greyed out and when I look into the settings it says ‘invalid not https’
I have followed the instructions here http://www.miro.co.za/userfiles/file/MikroTik%20Hotspot%20Tutorial.pdf
and various other sites and cannot see what I am doing wrong.

the other thing I notice is that in the settings for the hotspot the ip of dns always shows 0.0.0.0
I can ping the ip address I create and it takes me to the router OS screen I have tried adding a static ip in for the DNS address but that did nothing.
I have tried using the router as the DNS in the hotspot and the upstream DNS in the hotspot.
I have internet access fine as you can see from this post.

I am stumped what to try next so thought I would post here.
thanks

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First, remove the default configuration.
See the printscreens
http://www.wirelessinfo.be/index.php/mikrotik/pages/hotspot

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Hi plisken

thanks for suggestion. I tried it that way and it did work but it also locked me out of the Mikrotik router as 192.168.88.1 is the default ip address on the bridge-local. Even if it worked ok, I need it to work on the WLAN1 interface for wireless users, and so far if I try the same setup on any other interface it fails and comes up as invalid and greyed out. WLAN1 or Ether interfaces all seem to end up greyed out. Bridge-local is the only one it works on. why?

I also notice the relevant hotspot DHCP server scope is also greyed out and invalid when this problem happens.

I found a more appropriate WLAN1 Hotspot setup here http://netwanlan.com/2012/04/04/configure-hotspot-server-in-mikrotik/

but when I follow this, firstly I get an error when I use the WLAN1 interface ip address for the hotspot it says that is already in use. I have tried this after deleting the WLAN1 config and settings, and doing a /system reset-configuration, each time still the same.

I am going to post some command line prints below maybe someone can see the cause of the problem. As you can see from the below print outs the DHCP1 server is coming up flagged as Invalid and the hotspot itself is flagged as Invalid.

Any suggestions would be appreciated it is driving me nuts now.

[admin@MikroTik] /ip hotspot> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, S - HTTPS

NAME INTERFACE ADDRESS-POOL PROFILE IDLE-TIMEOUT

0 I hotspot1 wlan1 hs-pool-12 hsprof1 5m
[admin@MikroTik] /ip hotspot>

[admin@MikroTik] /ip hotspot profile> print
Flags: * - default
0 * name=“default” hotspot-address=0.0.0.0 dns-name=“” html-directory=hotspot rate-limit=“” http-proxy=0.0.0.0:0
smtp-server=0.0.0.0 login-by=cookie,http-chap http-cookie-lifetime=3d split-user-domain=no use-radius=no

1 name=“hsprof1” hotspot-address=10.1.1.1 dns-name=“hotspot.one” html-directory=hotspot rate-limit=“”
http-proxy=0.0.0.0:0 smtp-server=0.0.0.0 login-by=cookie,http-chap http-cookie-lifetime=3d
split-user-domain=no use-radius=no
[admin@MikroTik] /ip hotspot profile>

[admin@MikroTik] /ip dhcp-server> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid

NAME INTERFACE RELAY ADDRESS-POOL LEASE-TIME ADD-ARP

0 default bridge-local default-dhcp 3d
1 I dhcp1 wlan1 hs-pool-12 1h
[admin@MikroTik] /ip dhcp-server>

[admin@MikroTik] /ip dhcp-server network> print

ADDRESS GATEWAY DNS-SERVER WINS-SERVER DOMAIN

0 ;;; hotspot network
10.1.1.0/24 10.1.1.1
1 ;;; default configuration
192.168.88.0/24 192.168.88.1 192.168.88.1
[admin@MikroTik] /ip dhcp-server network>

[admin@MikroTik] /ip pool> print

NAME RANGES

0 default-dhcp 192.168.88.10-192.168.88.254
1 hs-pool-12 10.1.1.2-10.1.1.254
[admin@MikroTik] /ip pool>

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thought I would update this in case someone else has the same problem.

I found a work around but definitely not a fix. The issue seems to be with DHCP server settings on the box. It seems I can only really use the default scope and if I add more in and try to use them for the Hotspot then it turns the DHCP server scope range to invalid and the same with the hotspot.

the workaround is to assign a different ip address to the Hotspot interface as WLAN1 e.g. 10.1.1.1/24
and then setup the hotspot to use the default DHCP server range. 192.168.88.2-192.168.88.254
this then works to allow me to run a hotspot on the WLAN1 interface

any attempts to add a different DHCP range in and point the working WLAN1 hotspot to it cause it to fail with the original issue.

So it seems to be a problem with the DHCP specifically more than the hotspot itself, for my purposes this is good enough and I can get on with other things. I would still like to know what the problem is and I would still like to hear from anyone with input into this problem at any time.

thanks Mark.

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aha…finally…This problem is explained here http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/dhcp-server-keeps-coming-up-invalid/20536/1

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hi. i have same problem with you. can you explain more details here how to fix it ?