Captive portal on same firewall as webserver

librarymark

Hello -

I want to install a pfsense captive portal in the library where I work. We are currently using ZoneCD but it seems that I have to reboot it a lot lately. It's on a really old box.

Our pfsense firewall (which has been working great, BTW) has 3 ports, WAN, LAN, and one to go to our public wireless access points. The webserver for our homepage is in our LAN, with NAT out to one of our public IP addresses. The captive portal works great, however, it can't seem to redirect to the NAT-ed public IP of our web server to redirect folks to our home page. It works when I put in the LAN IP address of the web server, but I really don't want to do that.

What am I missing? Should the captive portal go on its own box?

Thanks -

Library Mark

librarymark

OOPS - forgot to mention, I am using openDNS's DNS servers on the portal, if that makes any difference.

azmihamzah

you'll need to portforward the internal ip of your webserver at the desired port (port 80).

Portforward function is at Firewall>NAT

librarymark

I'm doing that already. That is how our webserver is made available to the web.

GruensFroeschli

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html
Enable NAT reflection.

librarymark

Are you insinuating that I could have found an answer if I had searched? I did. If I had known that it was called nat reflection, then I might have been able to find it.

Thanks, I guess.

GruensFroeschli

I didnt say anything :D
Just the solution to your problem ;)

librarymark

Oh - OK.

After being smacked down on the contribs.org forums so many times, I guess that I am just a little defensive.

Thanks again -

Library Mark