Questions tagged [captive-portal]
Captive Portal is a web page which is displayed to users when they are connected to a public-access network, based on which access is restricted to the network resources.
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Set up BIND to redirect captive.apple.com to an internal IP address
We are setting up a captive portal for guest users using our Cisco ISE servers, and we have a Linux box running BIND just for those users.
All OSes work fine and redirect to the ISE guest login page ...
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Unable to connect to Windows Server 2025 with Sophos firewall for authentication
We are trying to connect to a new Windows Server 2025 host to act as an authenticator for Sophos XG firewall 21.5.0.
After adding DNS name, username and passwords, the "Test Connection" ...
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Persistent storage in captive portals or mobile internet while wifi connection without internet
I have a little problem here:
I want to create a WiFi network, which does not provide internet access. The WiFi network should only serve one website to the user like in a museum.
That's pretty simple ...
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Redirect all http traffic to external web site using dnsmasq/iptables on Pi
I want to redirect all port 80 traffic (regardless of the domain name) to go to a specific external website. Therefore, if the user enters "www.google.com" or anything, it sends them to "www.mysite....
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PHP landing page on Apache server Cisco WLC controller
I have a landing page done on php along with SQL database for WIFI user registration along with Cisco wireless controller.
The WLC is redirecting the user to the landing page for authentication / ...
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can pfSense captive portal grant internet access to IP which is assigned by Windows DHCP server only?
In our organization we have a wifi access point and IP addresses are assigned by a Windows DHCP server. We have MAC filtering enabled for internet access in the DHCP server but the issue is that if ...
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Trigger agreement page automatically when connecting to Captive Portal [duplicate]
I have a WiFi hotspot setup using Hostapd and Dnsmasq. Everything works great, but I'm trying to trigger the sort of Terms and Conditions page you might see at a hotel or coffee shop after you connect ...
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Auto-trigger captive portal agreement page display
I have a WiFi hotspot setup using Hostapd and Dnsmasq. Everything works great, but I'm trying to trigger the sort of Terms and Conditions page you might see at a hotel or coffee shop after you connect ...
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Force redirect to url with captive portal or dnsmasq
We are trying to host a static webpage (just one index.php) on a local wifi network without internet access. Essentially every user (mobile devices) should land on some landing page where he can ...
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Captive portal with local webserver and limited internet access
I have a mini pc running Linux. It has a 3G modem, wifi modem, runs nodogsplash for the captive portal, hostapd, dnsmasq, web server that gives out data that the user needs.
I have the 3G device for ...
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dnsmasq: Block manipulated dns responses pointing at captive portal site
After setting up a raspberry pi based router (behind two other routers) using debian stretch, iptables, dnsmasq and hostapd, I have come to learn a seemingly endless amount of interesting options that ...
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Simple URL redirect after connecting to Wi-Fi Hotspot
This is not as trivial as it looks.
What we have:
VideoConferencing Terminal with ability to be an AP (Wi-Fi Hotspot)
Centos 7 Intel Flavoured, pre-installed on that terminal Nginx with
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Ideally, how should HSTS / SSL Everywhere / Let's encrypt work with captive Wifi portals?
Some captive Wifi portals require the ability to 301/302 redirect a user to an authentication / terms of service page before permitting access to the Internet.
This is at odds with SSL, which can't ...
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Open an URL on a client when it connects to a wifi network - how?
An enterprise has a "guest" WiFi that's password protected (so no open access) that their clients can use to reach the Internet. They also want to make it so that when someone connects, they'd get ...
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Freeradius radclient unsupported attribute
I want to send disconnect-message to NAS using radclient program but when I want to disconnect one user using this command
echo user-name=zaib | radclient -x 192.168.3.1 disconnect "muh"
the ...
