You used to have to upload a null file to clear it.

cp /dev/null portal_reset.html

Then upload that.

One solution that make you issue work:
Back-port the actual code too your pfSense installation.

From what I recall, the removal of firewall rules was buggy back then (2.1.5) so they repaired it - which introduces new versions.

You you don't want do 'deal' with it (because you can't), but you have the need to have your pfSense modified without being upgraded: switch to this sub-forum https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=34.0 (be SURE that you read the rules FIRST).

Be ready to find out that the 'repair' will break squid …...

Hi All,

Thanks for your reply,yeah i guess i need to disable the captive portal,,thanks it helps me alot

Thanks

Sounds like you have a WiFi AP in routing mode connected to CP. That will not ever work properly.

I'm working on this here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=95680

I'm working on this here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=95680

I'm working on this here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=95680

I'm working on this here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=95680

Perfect!  I already use freeradius, so this shouldn't be too difficult.  Many thanks!

Please, people, don't 'try' pfSense using very old version.

It will be confusing for you and difficult to get support.

Thank you cmb, I installed the syslog-ng package to retain and rotate this logs.

I believe this happens on upgrade if the CP .db files  in /var/db didn't get reset. On 2.1.x they were in SQLite 2.x format and on pfSense 2.2+ it's SQLite 3.

^^^

Great !

You just posted in the ENGLISH section.
That won't work.

Scotty !!! Beam me up, please.

No. Start coding… :P

@Gertjan:

Keep in mind that this (and maybe others) issue exists : https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4605#note-1

that has no relation to captive portal, OP's circumstance works perfectly fine in 2.2.2.

just to clarify,
yes the "After authentication Redirection URL" field in CP config works, to the extent that I can nominate a web a page to bring the user to.
But ideally we require to insert the user name on that page as you see from our PHP code. And that works fine on our test web server (not pfSense) when we use our own redirect coding

I would like to know if there is a way to pass a variable to the "After authentication Redirection URL" to achieve what we want to do
www.hayfieldmanor.ie/wifi-landing-page?user=$fname

And secondly with the user data we capture on the index.php to write the data to captiveportal-data.csv, again our code works on a regular webserver but not when uploaded to pfSense

Does anyone know what we should do to tweak things and get it working on pfSense?

Thanks

The DNS needs to be working. I.e., you must put the IPs into allowed IPs in CP. Doesn't need to be on pfSense at all.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Troubleshooting