Fortinet 211 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
To upload a configuration via the web UI
1. Go to System > Maintenance > Backup & Restore.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator's account access profile must have
Read and Write permission to items in the Maintenance category. For details, see
“Permissions” on page 47.
2. Select Restore.
Available options change to allow for file browsing.
3. Either type the path and file name of the file to restore in the From File field, or click Browse
to locate the file. (It has a .conf file extension.)
4. If the backup was encrypted, enable Decryption, then in Password, provide the password
that was used to encrypt the backup file.
5. Click Restore to start the restoration of the selected configuration to a file.
Your web browser uploads the configuration file and the FortiWeb appliance restarts with the
new configuration. Time required to restore varies by the size of the file and the speed of
your network connection. Your web UI session will be terminated when the FortiWeb
appliance restarts.
6. To continue using the web UI, if you have not changed the IP address and static routes of the
web UI, simply refresh the web page and log in again.
Otherwise, to access the web UI again, in your web browser, modify the URL t to match the
new IP address of the network interface.
For example, if you configured port1 with the IP address 10.10.10.5, you would browse to:
https://10.10.10.5
If the new IP address is on a different subnet than the previous IP address, and your
computer is directly connected to the FortiWeb appliance, you may also need to modify the
IP address and subnet of your computer to match the FortiWeb appliance’s new IP address.
7. Upload any auxiliary configuration files such as certificates. (These are only included in the
configuration backup if you used the CLI or FTP/SFTP server backup. Otherwise, you must
upload them again manually.)
If you have made a configuration backup to an FTP server (see “To back up the configuration
via the web UI to an FTP/SFTP server” on page 208), you cannot restore it here. Instead, restore
it by using the execute restore command. See the FortiWeb CLI Reference.