Wireguard UI doesnt restart Wireguard Service When Applying Config

[fattyredpanda]

Wireguard UI doesnt restart Wireguard Service When Applying Config. I have to manually restart from console everytime after clicking apply config for it to take effect.

Running Ubuntu 23

[alex85us]

+1

[vrtareg]

Same here
Trying to run on TrueNAS FreeBSD based Jail
Config is generated OK but unable to restart service and get stats of clients.

[thenktor]

Same on FreeBSD. To restart the service it should run service wireguard restart

[vgallegoiz]

Same as you, to apply the config I need to restart the wireguard container and then the wireguard-ui. Easier than service wireguard restart

[OlegMuzych]

Hi guys. To automatically restart the service, you need to: WGUI_MANAGE_RESTART=true
https://github.com/ngoduykhanh/wireguard-ui#using-docker

[dvett01]

I have issues with the WGUI_MANAGE_RESTART=true.
Once I hit apply config my wireguard tunnell will be taken down, but will not start again.

I believe it might be related to an issue with iptables that I can see in my docker logs:
ip link delete dev wg0
iptables -D FORWARD -i wg0 -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o ens6 -j MASQUERADE
/usr/bin/wg-quick: line 295: iptables: command not found

To bring wireguard up again I need to run it manually with wg-quick start wg0

Any idea if I am doing something wrong?

[kaganae]

I am having the same issue, running within docker on a Synololgy NAS. When I apply the config, the changes are applied to wg0.conf, the wg0 interface is stopped, but it does not start after (but works fine when I manually start from the command line via wg-quick). Environment variables are as follows:

environment:
- SENDGRID_API_KEY
- EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
- EMAIL_FROM_NAME
- SESSION_SECRET
- WG_CONF_TEMPLATE
- WGUI_MANAGE_START=false
- WGUI_MANAGE_RESTART=true

[jantschaefer]

I'm having the same problem on my Synology. #520 did not solve the issuse for me. Did anyone else already try version 0.6.0 and can confirm that the problem still persits?

[jantschaefer]

I've checked the log file of the WireGuard-UI container. There seems to be an issue with iptables. The error message is: iptables v1.8.10 (nf_tables): Could not fetch rule set generation id: Invalid argument. Previous versions (0.5.2) are running fine.

[bukiru]

Hi guys. To automatically restart the service, you need to: WGUI_MANAGE_RESTART=true https://github.com/ngoduykhanh/wireguard-ui#using-docker

but I don't use docker!!!!

[kaganae]

Yes, thanks. WGUI_MANAGE_RESTART is set to true, but it isn't working as documented.

[KyKyIIIKuH]

Replaced this
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl restart wg-quick@wg0.service
on this
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl reload wg-quick@wg0.service

and everything started working