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    • M
      m4st3rc1p0
      last edited by

      hi,

      Just recently upgraded to 2.1.3 and I restore my xml backup one by one just to make sure everything will work fine. However i run into an issue on captive portal.

      My captive portal is enabled however even the users who is not in the mac list/ip allowed list they can still access the internet. Does someone experience this.

      Also, i notice the portal port has been change to 16000.  Can someone help also as the login page to input the voucher or username is not showing up. I am sitll using the default portal page. DID i miss something on the configuration ?

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan
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        @m4st3rc1p0:

        Just recently upgraded to 2.1.3 and I restore my xml backup one by one just to make sure everything will work fine. However i run into an issue on captive portal.
        My captive portal is enabled however even the users who is not in the mac list/ip allowed list they can still access the internet. Does someone experience this.

        Never.
        If you want to have someone explaining this, he'll be needing your setup - physical and config. Please, do not omit the smallest non-default thing.

        @m4st3rc1p0:

        Also, i notice the portal port has been change to 16000.  …

        Well, again : you config seems very hosed to me.
        Backup your config.xml, extract whatever is between <captiveportal>and</captiveportal> and post it to http://pastebin.org - link here.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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        • M
          m4st3rc1p0
          last edited by

          thanks, for the reply. I setup a new box and install 2.3.1. restore  the following configuration dhcp, rules and captive portal after setting up the 3 interface.

          • WAN

          • LAN

          • LAN2

          after restoring i notice on the mac list, all listed mac does not have any actions assign, so what i did is edit manually 1 by 1 all the listed and give them the proper access which pass.

          When i try to view the page on portal it redirects on me https://pfsense15:16000/index.ph?allowedzone.

          My backup xml file came from version 2.1.5 and my configuration is I am using a hyper-v 2012 r2 .

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan
            last edited by

            I advise you to 'destroy' your captive portal setup - remove the zone completely and redo it.

            True, in theory you could import a very ancient ancient config file - but …. better be save : don't (IMHO).

            The captive portal will work with 99 % of all settings on 'default'.
            As soon as it is up, add your won settings by hand one by one.

            The fact that you have a port like "16000" seems very awkward to me.

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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            • M
              m4st3rc1p0
              last edited by

              hi,

              I followed what you said and it worked the port change back to 8002, but when i try to access the interface where i define the portal should be working i was prompted with a white screen no error or whatsoever , the only interface the portal screen work in on WAN. I did not select WAN interface to be part of the portal.

              Can someone enlighten me on this.

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              • GertjanG
                Gertjan
                last edited by

                Read and check this https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Troubleshooting

                Is the nginx running on the portal interface ?
                Use SSH acces and :
                ps ax | grep 'nginx'
                sockstat -4l | grep 'nginx'

                Btw : being able to access the portal on the WAN NIC ….. well, something is very wrong.

                No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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