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    [pfsense-2.3.1] captive portal redirect-url before auth

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    • R
      Riroxi
      last edited by

      same issue here on 2.3

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        Riroxi
        last edited by

        Got the trick.

        To Pre-authentication redirect URL works, just remove this line:

        require("globals.inc");

        From the official help: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Pre-authentication_Redirect

        Then, the code will look like this:

        
        $request_uri = urldecode(str_replace("/index.php?redirurl=", "",  $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]));
        $portal_redirurl = urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
        if(!stristr(urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$"), $request_uri)) {
                Header("Location: $PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
                exit;
        }
        ?>
        

        Upload to Portal page contents and be happy

        Works fine to me.

        Cya

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          aurel
          last edited by

          yes i remove this line but how can you return on captive portal page to logon ?

          this url not working :

          The user will be redirected to that URL, and then when the user clicks back to pfSense using a link to the firewall IP address/port, such as http://x.x.x.x:8002/index.php, the referring URL will match the original landing page and the redirect will not happen that time

          This still not working on 2.3.1

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            tamduong
            last edited by

            I have same problem with the preauthen page cant redirect to the portal page by method action"IPpfsense:8002/index.php" It show the blank page. Please help me solve this problem

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            • empbillyE
              empbilly
              last edited by

              @tamduong:

              I have same problem with the preauthen page cant redirect to the portal page by method action"IPpfsense:8002/index.php" It show the blank page. Please help me solve this problem

              You have a custom redirect page? If Yes, post here.

              https://eliasmoraispereira.wordpress.com/

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                tamduong
                last edited by

                Yes, this is the preauthen page. Purpose: The customer will show the terms and condition first

                
                <title>Wireless System</title>
                
                <center>
                
                | 
                                ![](../captiveportal-logo.jpg)
                             | 
                
                # Wireless System
                
                             |
                
                You only have TWO sessions and each session is ONE hour access the Internet service then you MUST register at  Club Desk or waiting for 24 hours later 
                
                        **Terms of Use**
                
                        Welcome to the Palazzo  Internet access service (the "Service"). The Service is being provided for all customer of the Club at  Hotel, and Owners (collectively, the "Club" or "We"). As a condition of accessing this Service, you must agree to the following terms and conditions of use ("Terms of Use"). If you do not agree to the Terms of Use you may not access or use another Internet Service. Your use of the Palazzo Wireless Service indicates your acceptance of these Terms of Use.
                
                        **No Editorial Control** 
                
                        The Club do not review or exercise any editorial control over the content or materials made available over the Internet by third parties, including without limitation any electronic mail transmissions, newsgroups, or the like. However,We may remove, block, filter, or restrict by any other means any materials that, in the CLUB sole discretion, may be illegal, may subject the Club to liability, or may violate these Terms of Use. The Club may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties in the investigation of any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong. Violation of these Terms of Use may result in the suspension or termination of access to the Service.
                
                        **Security** 
                
                        You expressly acknowledge and agree that there are significant security, privacy and confidentiality risks inherent in accessing or transmitting information through the Internet, whether the connection to the Internet is facilitated through wired or wireless technology. These security issues range from interception of transmissions, loss of data, or the introduction of viruses or other programs that can damage your computer or network.
                        ACCORDINGLY, YOU AGREE THAT THE CLUB SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INTERCEPTION OF TRANSMISSIONS, LOSS OF DATA, FILE CORRUPTION, HACKING OR DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER OR NETWORK THAT RESULTS FROM THE TRANSMISSION OR DOWNLOAD OF INFORMATION OR MATERIALS THROUGH THE SERVICE.
                        Restrictions on Use
                        You agree to not use the Service to:
                
                            (a) transmit any material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, obscene, libelous, invasive of another?s privacy, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
                
                            (b) harm, or attempt to harm, minors in any way;
                
                            (c) impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any material transmitted through the Service;
                
                            (d) transmit any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law;
                
                            (e) transmit any material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
                
                            (f) transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation;
                
                            (g) transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
                
                            (h) use the Services for excessively high volume data transfers.
                
                        **How to register your device**
                
                        Please ask the Reception Desk at Club collect your device mac address and provide your name. You do nothing else
                
                <form name="form1" onsubmit="return validate()" action="http://172.29.151.111:8002/index.php">
                
                 I have read and agree to the Terms of Use
                
                    </form>
                
                </center>
                
                

                and this is portal page:

                require_once("globals.inc");
                $request_uri = urldecode(str_replace("/index.php?redirurl=", "",  $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]));
                $portal_redirurl = urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
                if(!stristr(urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$"), $request_uri)) {
                    Header("Location: $PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
                    exit;
                }
                ?>
                
                <center>
                    <title>Wireless System</title>
                
                | 
                                ![](../captiveportal-logo.jpg)
                             | 
                
                # Wireless System
                
                             |
                
                 **You only have TWO session and ONE hour in each session please wait 24 hours later to have new session, or contact the Receptionist to [get unlimited time](http://172.29.151.111:8002/captiveportal-getmac.php)**
                
                </center>
                
                
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                  tamduong
                  last edited by

                  Help me plz!!!

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                    daibenjohn
                    last edited by

                    but how to force captive portal redirect to login page

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                    • GertjanG
                      Gertjan
                      last edited by

                      @daibenjohn:

                      but how to force captive portal redirect to login page

                      This will work without you (the captive portal user) doing something special.
                      If you have some knowledge about what a firewall is :
                      https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Troubleshooting
                      Find out what your 'zone' is :

                      ipfw zone list
                      

                      Then, use the obtained number to check the rules :
                      ipfw -x zone1 show
                      You see rule number 65532:

                      65532   22940    2336966 fwd 127.0.0.1,8002 tcp from any to any dst-port 80 in
                      
                      

                      This rule says :
                      "Any connection tcp from anywhere going to anywhere" will be redirected to"127.0.0.1,8002".
                      And guess what : on 127.0.0.1,8002 is listeing a web server that servers you the default index.html page, your captive logon page.

                      When your login is validated, check out table 1 and 2 : your IP and MAC will be in these tables, so any further communication will not be send to the captive portal login page, bur simply passes through.

                      When the captive portal forces a logout, it simply removes your IP and MAC from theses two tables.

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

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                        SaschaITM
                        last edited by

                        Gertjan, could you please post the full output of the "ipfw -x show" command? I'm trying to fix a problem similar to the OPs CP problem, and I'd be very interested in seeing the output from a working CP system.

                        EDIT: sorry, mixed up the threads

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                          Thorgal
                          last edited by

                          Hi everyone,

                          I've the same issue. When i'm not log in :
                              I can't have access on http/https site
                              When I go on http://mydomain:8002/index.php I've blanc page
                              When I go on http://mydomain:8002/index.php?zone=cp_guest I've log in page (which works)

                          I used default Portal page contents and Pre-authentication redirect URL is set to http://mydomain:8002/index.php?zone=cp_guest

                          I've also the same rule : 65532  22940    2336966 fwd 127.0.0.1,8002 tcp from any to any dst-port 80 in

                          I've read topic, but it didn't work for me. I've you solved it ?

                          Thank you

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                            jancolle
                            last edited by

                            Has anyone found a solution to this ?

                            In my setup, I get redirected to the Pre Auth URL page, but cannot from that page jump to login portal page.

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                              Binahearst
                              last edited by

                              It would be great if somebody could post a working solution for version 2.3 onwards(portal page and external landing page) to a pre-auth external landing page which contains the form.

                              The CP controller does not appear to be able to pass the actual values of $PORTAL_ACTION$, $PORTAL_ZONE$, $PORTAL_REDIRURL$, $PORTAL_MESSAGES$ to the external landing page using PHP header function.

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                                joel.dq
                                last edited by

                                Ahh, so that's what's happening in my setup. I get looped all the time to the redirect url.

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                                  zoro_2009
                                  last edited by

                                  So, anyone found a solution ?

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                                    sonidoP
                                    last edited by

                                    Any solution please?

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                                    • GertjanG
                                      Gertjan
                                      last edited by

                                      @Thorgal:

                                      I've the same issue. When i'm not log in :
                                          I can't have access on http/https site
                                          When I go on http://mydomain:8002/index.php I've blanc page

                                      This is ok and by design.
                                      Calling this page (index.php) without the very needed variable 'zone', there will be an error - see error log (see the captive log file).
                                      See here : https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/usr/local/captiveportal/index.php#L39 (and next 8 lines) => NO variable 'zone" means : dead.

                                      See also this (these) file(s) :
                                      /var/etc/nginx-CPZONE-CaptivePortal.conf
                                      /var/etc/nginx-CPZONE-CaptivePortal-SSL.conf (if you use https login)
                                      This is what make things work:

                                      		......
                                      		if ($http_host ~* 192.168.2.1) {
                                      			set $cp_redirect no;
                                      		}
                                      		if ($http_host ~* portal.brit-hotel-fumel.net) {
                                      			set $cp_redirect no;
                                      		}
                                      
                                      		if ($cp_redirect = '') {
                                      			rewrite	^ /index.php?zone=cpzone1&redirurl=$request_uri break;
                                      		......
                                      
                                      

                                      Your IP and portal URL are different of course.
                                      Check that the URL does resolve to the IP present !!

                                      @Thorgal:

                                      When I go on http://mydomain:8002/index.php?zone=cp_guest I've log in page (which works)

                                      As explained above : ok and normal.

                                      For all : pre-auth might be broken - or not.
                                      The doc might be not 100 % - some made it work - others don't.

                                      The big problem is : communication. To make it work, all settings need to be known and ok. Special broken setups WILL break everything.
                                      The pre auth page could be stored on pfSense (as an uploaded file) - or not - and could even be some where on the net.

                                      I have have not tried pre auth myself - I don't need it.

                                      Just an advise for those who try to make it work : check that all variables are passed to the pages involved in the process (some PHP knowledge will be needed).

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

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                                        seanpearman
                                        last edited by

                                        I've been looking in to how to resolve this issue. Here's what I did:

                                        1. Set the portal page to anything you like, but make sure it includes:

                                        require_once("globals.inc");
                                        $request_uri = urldecode(str_replace("/index.php?redirurl=", "",  $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]));
                                        $portal_redirurl = urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
                                        if(!stristr(urldecode("$PORTAL_REDIRURL$"), $request_uri)) {
                                        Header("Location: $PORTAL_REDIRURL$");
                                        exit;
                                        }

                                        1. Set your pre-auth url to point to your external web server

                                        2. Web server loads its page (for me a data capture page), and posts to a database and echo's header location to authenticate.php

                                        3. Authenticate.php is essentially the default captive portal code, but I modified $PORTAL_??$ variables to be hard coded. This is then posted directly to the firewall (192.168.1.1:8002/index.php?zone=[zonename]), and the user is then forwarded to the $PORTAL_REDIRURL$

                                        4. The user is authenticated and able to browse

                                        I hope this helps!

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