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      A Former User
      last edited by

      my captive portal is on a vlan and i can access the splash page by visiting the vlan url 10.10.10.1:8000

      i dont have any authentication, so pressing continue reloads the page.  i have not tweaked the default config, or added my own, so i tried entering google.com and it works.  prior to clicking continue google.com didnt load.

      this is where my problem starts.  when i connected to the wifi with the Captive Portal, nothing loads, it attempts to load the home page and nothing pops up.  that is when i typed in 10.10.10.1:8000 to make sure it would load.

      what am i missing?  why isnt the default splash page kicking in?  i want to make sure the basics/defaults work before i start editing pages.

      everything else seems to work once i click continue and type in a URL, but i need the splash page to load on its own, that is step 1.

      thanks.

      edit-

      2.0.1-RELEASE (i386)
      built on Mon Dec 12 18:24:17 EST 2011
      FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6

      You are on the latest version.

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      • ?
        A Former User
        last edited by

        more info…

        good news- i tried with a windows 7 PC, chrome browser and my default website is google.com and when i loaded the browser it redirected me to the CP splash page...so i guess it works.  the other good news is that as soon as i connected to the captive portal AP on the vlan, windows gave me a notification that additional credentials might be required, so again, it saw that the CP was active (windows pop up balloon in the bottom right in the system tray).

        bad news- the computer i was originally testing with was a mac with chrome browser, that is strange that it doesnt work with mac .

        does anyone have any idea why it doesnt work with mac?

        side note- i tried accessing with my ipad and that gave me the splash page when i tried going to a browser, that is what made me try with a windows 7 OS.

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        • ?
          A Former User
          last edited by

          appears to be an apple issue?

          http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/37829/why-wont-my-macbook-pro-connect-to-wi-fi-networks-that-use-a-sign-in-page-capt

          http://blog.securestate.com/post/2011/10/07/OS-X-Lion-Captive-Portal-Hijacking-Attack.aspx

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