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https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=58365&p=120.04.2018 · The upgrade appeared to work. The device is at it's old settings. I was not able to access it via LuCi so I reinstalled it and rebooted the device. I can access it via Putty and WinSCP. I am still unable to access LuCi, but now noticed the message (in Chrome) ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. I do see LuCi for a brief second before this message appears.
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https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7288631.12.2017 · Then you have remote full access to LuCI, but everything that goes over the Internet is encrypted. On your remote computer do ssh root@routerhostname -L 80:localhost:8080. When the connection opens, port 8080 on your PC is a tunnel to port 80 on the router. So leave the SSH session open and go to your web browser localhost:8080.