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Here is a tutorial that I found but it’s not that good and its old https://turbofuture.com/computers/How-to-Set-Up-a-Captive-Portal-Using-pfSense

 

I just turned the captive portal on and set it to use a RADIUS sever that I host on pfsense it self for authentication. I also tried using it without authentication just by pressing a button and it worked

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Hi guys, 

 

Does anyone know how to set up a free wifi login portal such as those used in malls, hotels, coffee shops using free software or open firmware? Please help, I want to create such portal to direct customers to my website. I'm pretty new to the open source firmware, so please be patient and guild me step by step. Thanks.

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12 minutes ago, Kennerdy21 said:

Hi guys, 

 

Does anyone know how to set up a free wifi login portal such as those used in malls, hotels, coffee shops using free software or open firmware? Please help, I want to create such portal to direct customers to my website. I'm pretty new to the open source firmware, so please be patient and guild me step by step. Thanks.

I have only ever done this with Ubiquiti's unifi software, but my guess is something like this is possible with a flashable firmware like OpenWRT and consumer/prosumer grade equipment. 

What router/APs are you using?

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pfSense has Captive Portal available.

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My recommendations are pfsense or Unifi. DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato (open source firmware options for routers) also have varying ability to do a captive portal.

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3 hours ago, Brink2Three said:

I have only ever done this with Ubiquiti's unifi software, but my guess is something like this is possible with a flashable firmware like OpenWRT and consumer/prosumer grade equipment. 

What router/APs are you using?

Unfortunately, ubiquiti's products are either rare or very expensive where i'm. I'm using a tp-link router for broadcasting guest wifi right now.

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1 hour ago, mtz_federico said:

I have done this in pfsense and its very simple.

don’t know about openwrt

Can you give me an instruction

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3 hours ago, jj9987 said:

pfSense has Captive Portal available.p

Please show me how

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39 minutes ago, Kennerdy21 said:

The thing is I can't get my hand on one of those ubiquity or pfsense. They're too expensive.

Pfsense is free. All you need is a PC to install it on

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Here is a tutorial that I found but it’s not that good and its old https://turbofuture.com/computers/How-to-Set-Up-a-Captive-Portal-Using-pfSense

 

I just turned the captive portal on and set it to use a RADIUS sever that I host on pfsense it self for authentication. I also tried using it without authentication just by pressing a button and it worked

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pfSense has it's own book that includes many tutorials, it could help you get started - https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/

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Hydrogen server: Intel i3-10100 | Cryorig M9i | 64 GB Crucial Ballistix 3200MHz DDR4 | Gigabyte B560M-DS3H | 33 TB of storage | Fractal Design Define R5 | unRAID 6.9.2

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