Push a home page when a customer connects to my wireless network

When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home
page.

When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to
come up.

But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what
it was before he came in.

How do I do this?

I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. Please
help!

In message
<f49ab73d-59b6-4d7c-bc0a-(E-Mail Removed)> Matt
Porter <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
>wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home
>page.
>
>When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to
>come up.
>
>But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what
>it was before he came in.
>
>How do I do this?
>
>I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. Please
>help!

Look at the "captive portal" feature of pfSense, it will deny all access
to the gateway until the user logs in, which can be as simple as a
button (without username or password), a HTTP/HTTPS authentication,
various forms of VPN, or whatever else you'd like to add as the base is
just BSD.

You can't override the "Home" button on the browser.

On Sep 22, 2:14*pm, Matt Porter <mattporte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
> wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home
> page.
>
> When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to
> come up.
>
> But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what
> it was before he came in.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. *Please
> help!


As already said, what you are looking for is a "captive portal".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal

A CP will re-direct the first http request to anywhere you like. From
there, you can do whatever you want -- such as make the connectee
agree to a disclaimer before going further. (I'm assuming you want it
freely open.)

A CP has many other features as well, such as content filtering.

There are many CP software packages out there. Many are Linux based,
free, and open source. I have used ZoneCD for several years and
really like it. It can be run of a headless computer with just a CD
drive and two ethernet cards. Whether ZoneCD is the best out there is
subjective, but it is the CP that I'm most familiar with. It is Linux
based and free.

http://www.publicip.net/

In message <Xns9B2288635F7C3lloydspmindspringcom@216.168.3.70 > "Lloyd E.
Sponenburgh" <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:

>I have ZoneCD, although I haven't implemented it yet. Having gone
>over the docs, it's obvious it would work for me, except that I have a
>physical limitation on where I can place computers. Cost isn't the
>problem; the problem is that it's illegal and dangerous to put any
>powered device inside the buildings I want to associate with hotspots.
>
>Do you know of one that will run in an inexpensive AP? I'd like to do
>similar to the OP, but with multiple hotspots along a row of
>buildings, using weatherproof APs and a POE backbone; about 100' apart
>along a straight line.

A captive portal doesn't need to run on the AP itself, it can run
upstream, just as long as it sits between the client and the ultimate
destination (the internet connection?) somewhere in the network path.

In message <Xns9B229F7D579DFlloydspmindspringcom@216.168.3.70 > "Lloyd E.
Sponenburgh" <lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:

>DevilsPGD <(E-Mail Removed)> fired this volley in
>news:(E-Mail Removed) :
>>
>> A captive portal doesn't need to run on the AP itself, it can run
>> upstream, just as long as it sits between the client and the ultimate
>> destination (the internet connection?) somewhere in the network path.
>>
>No, no... DIFFERENT redirection pages for each hotspot.
>
>("You're now in the game room" "You're now at the pool" etc.)

Yes, but the same applies, you'd just need some way to carry that
information out to the AP. Using APs that support VLANs would be the
easiest method, although I can think of others.

DNS Redirector software can do this...
http://www.dnsredirector.com

It's free for the purpose you describe, so long as it's used for a
small business

On Sep 22, 1:14*pm, Matt Porter <mattporte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When a customer walks into my client's store and connects to the
> wireless network I want the first web page they see to be store's home
> page.
>
> When the customer opens his web browser I want the store's web page to
> come up.
>
> But when the customer leaves the store I want his home page to be what
> it was before he came in.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I'm a computer tech guy and I haven't been able to find this. *Please
> help!