Push a home page when a customer connects to my wireless network
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Posted by Matt Porter on September 22, 2008, 2:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home page. When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to come up. But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what it was before he came in. How do I do this? I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. Please help! | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by msg on September 22, 2008, 2:56 pm
Please log in for more thread options Matt Porter wrote: FWIW, on our open access WiFi system, a stranger accessing any URL's root will be redirected to our internal web server (the border router does port forwarding); any URL beyond a root address is returned '404', but with some work and the right web proxy software these too could be redirected. After the stranger authenticates as an IPSec VPN client, the tunneled connection passes http traffic in the normal fashion. <snip>
> But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what
> it was before he came in. Of course, after tearing down the VPN connection, the stranger's browser will work as it did before. Regards, Michael | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Bill Kearney on September 22, 2008, 5:06 pm
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> How do I do this?
It's called setting up a hotspot. Do some searches on it. You'll need a router that supports being configured to use one. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DevilsPGD on September 22, 2008, 11:59 pm
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In message >When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
>wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home >page. > >When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to >come up. > >But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what >it was before he came in. > >How do I do this? > >I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. Please >help! Look at the "captive portal" feature of pfSense, it will deny all access to the gateway until the user logs in, which can be as simple as a button (without username or password), a HTTP/HTTPS authentication, various forms of VPN, or whatever else you'd like to add as the base is just BSD. You can't override the "Home" button on the browser. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on September 23, 2008, 12:11 pm
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> When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
> wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home > page. > > When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to > come up. > > But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what > it was before he came in. > > How do I do this? > > I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. =A0Please > help! As already said, what you are looking for is a "captive portal". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal A CP will re-direct the first http request to anywhere you like. From there, you can do whatever you want -- such as make the connectee agree to a disclaimer before going further. (I'm assuming you want it freely open.) A CP has many other features as well, such as content filtering. There are many CP software packages out there. Many are Linux based, free, and open source. I have used ZoneCD for several years and really like it. It can be run of a headless computer with just a CD drive and two ethernet cards. Whether ZoneCD is the best out there is subjective, but it is the CP that I'm most familiar with. It is Linux based and free. http://www.publicip.net/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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> wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home
> page.