UI shows a blank page, no login prompt

[R-Sonlabs]

Hi! I love your work and decided to try out the http-ui for the first time tonight and fell down a 3 hour rabbit hole. When I load 127.0.0.1:80 I get a blank screen. Checking the source, I see the exact contents of bettercap/ui/index.html so it is definitely loading the correct page.

Starting bettercap -caplet http-ui shows what it should (ie http.server starting on 127.0.0.1:80 and api.rest starting on 127.0.0.1:8081) Naturally I assume that means that I'm good to go, but it doesn't seem to start the ui-root app when I load the page.

Running Kali 5.5.0-amd64 on bare metal.
Bettercap v2.27.1
I have bettercap-ui installed (tried both apt and built from src)
I have already set up symblink to fix the /usr/local/share vs /usr/share/ issue and that got me from a 404 to a blank screen.

I know there is probably some more information and reports for some diag tests I could run that would be helpful to you, but it's 3:30am in my part of the world and I can't fathom what they might be, but I am happy to follow instructions if you need more!

Thanks!

[nightwolfy]

i had the same issue. I've resolved downloading the last release of the ui from github, remove all the default files in "ui" folder of bettercap (i've zipped them for security) and place the extracted files in.

[urmommy-c]

@nightwolfy can you elaborate on that

[nightwolfy]

@nightwolfy can you elaborate on that

@Bobowonnell i have downloaded this from the release page of ui https://github.com/bettercap/ui/releases/download/v1.3.0/ui.zip

• Next i've backup the folder of ui in the usr/share/bettercap
• Delete the content of ui folder (not the backup obviously)
• extract the zip in the folder
• if you see the blank page refresh that in the browser. It will download the updated ui.

[Neo-Desktop]

I had the same issue as described

This solved the problem.

@nightwolfy can you elaborate on that

@Bobowonnell i have downloaded this from the release page of ui https://github.com/bettercap/ui/releases/download/v1.3.0/ui.zip

• Next i've backup the folder of ui in the usr/share/bettercap
• Delete the content of ui folder (not the backup obviously)
• extract the zip in the folder
• if you see the blank page refresh that in the browser. It will download the updated ui.

I think the packed version shipped with kali is defective

[DanikNik]

Had the same issue with kali packaged version of ui - replacing ui folder with release version helped

[cyrus104]

I just did this and it didn't work for me.

rm -rf /usr/share/bettercap/ui
cd /usr/share/bettercap
unzip ~/Downloads/ui.zip

The folder structure looks the same but the ui still doesn't show up.

[avmiz]

I just did this and it didn't work for me.

rm -rf /usr/share/bettercap/ui
cd /usr/share/bettercap
unzip ~/Downloads/ui.zip

The folder structure looks the same but the ui still doesn't show up.

same for me, still blank page

[davidbutler62]

I had the same issue but after following the steps above and then clearing the browser cache it worked fine.

You need to clear the browser cache or it will just load the empty version that is still in the cache

[buffermet]

@davidbutler62 thanks for your report.

This seems to be a common issue that might be able to be resolved by disabling caching in the UI.

[xtha-op]

@davidbutler62 thanks for your report.

This seems to be a common issue that might be able to be resolved by disabling caching in the UI.

that's true this is worked for me.