Web Server Question

[kjaro]

I loaded up the web server on the Pineapple Mark 2 and have a custom page that all url request are forwarded to. Is their a way to just have that request affect a user once and then the next URL they put in pass them out to the internet. Doing this would give the illusion to the user that nothing is wrong.

Example:

User connects to pineapple, request a page in their browser --> returns my custom page on the pineapple --> User request another page or refreshes --> pineapple passes through request to internet and returns that page to them

Any ideas how to do this? I am not much of a programmer.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[Darren Kitchen]

You could have a PHP script load on the first request that changes the mk2's configuration, however that would only work for the very first client, not once for each client.

[0xFFFF]

What about session handeling in PHP?

[Darren Kitchen]

depends. The mk2 and mk3 handle this kn different manners. I think what you're looking for is a captive portal. Nocatauth. Comes to mind. Not sure if its available as an openwrt package but worth a look. Of not km sure there is bound to be something.

[kjaro]

Thanks Guys for the input, I just found a nocatsplash package on the OpenWRT site that I am going to try to install later today and see how it works. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks again

[kjaro]

Update: Found a some leads but having trouble getting them installed correctly. I tried nocatsplash but the wouldn't work with this version of Openwrt and the project is no longer in active development. From there I tied nodogsplash which was suppose to take it over. I keep getting an error "Packages for nodogsplash found, but incompatible with the architectures configured". I have tried both the mark 2 and mark 3 with now luck.

Questions I have:

On the Mark 3 it runs on Backfire but do I look for the packages under atheros or avr32?

Any other people have captive portals that work on the Mark 2 or Mark 3?

New Update: Mark 3 got nodogspash to install by adding these to the opkg.conf

src /packages http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc4/avr32/packages/

arch all 1

arch acr32 10

But then run into my next problem when I try to start the service:

" Starting nodogsplash ...

Testing module ipt_mac

Module ipt_mac needed

Scanning disk for ipt_mac module

ipt_mac module missing: please install it"

Isn't the ipt_mac module part of iptables 1.4.6-2?

I was going to reinstall it but will that mess up anything pre-configured on the Mark3

Edited December 14, 2011 by kjaro