DescriptionHow to Redirect Captive portal user to a specific URL after the successful webauth authentication?
ScopeKB ARTICLE
TYPE: configuration, Troubleshooting
RELATED PRODUCTS:
controller,
RELATED SOFTWARE
VERSIONS: 5.x,6.x,7.x
KEYWORDS: controller, captive portal,
post-auth redirection
SolutionYou can customize the captive portal by editing
the default HTML pages that you can download from the controller. Once
after the Web authentication is successful, the web page can be
redirected to a specific URL by editing one of the
HTML page downloaded from the controller by following
the below
instructions.
To know the basic information on how to Customize the
default captive portal page on changing the picture or to embed the
password in the HTML page, please take a look at the related KB article "Customizing the Splash Screen (Captive Portal
screen)".
CONFIGURATION
STEPS:
STEP 1: To redirect a captive portal
user to a specific URL, perform the following changes to the
"auth_web_ok.html" page that you have downloaded from the controller.
You can download the HTML files from the GUI of the controller following
the below
steps.
a. Click "Maintenance" >> "Captive Portal"
>>
"Customization".
b. Click the "Get Files" button to download a .tar file of
the .html files that can be
customized.
STEP
2: Open the "auth_web_ok.html" page's source code. Replace
"^url^" in the source code of the page to the URL to
which the user has to be redirected. (E.g: URL of the School,
university,
hospital,.)
STEP
3: For reference, the HTML code from the default
"auth_web_ok.html" page and the edited "auth_web_ok.html"
page are given
below.
1.
Default Page Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Meru Networks,
Inc</TITLE>
<LINK href="Styles.vpn/css.css" type=text/css
rel=stylesheet>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript
type=text/javascript>
function onLoad()
{
setTimeout("location.href='^url^'",
1*1000)
Replace the ^url^ part in the source
code to desired URL
2.
Edited Page
Code
For
example: Redirect to- http://www.fortinet.com
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Meru Networks,
Inc</TITLE>
<LINK href="Styles.vpn/css.css" type=text/css
rel=stylesheet>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript
type=text/javascript>
function onLoad()
{
setTimeout("location.href='http://www.fortinet.com'",
1*1000)
TEST
RESULTS:
When the
^url^ in the auth_web_ok.html page is replaced with a
URL, once the user gets the authenticated either by entering the
credentials manually or by hitting the submit/accept button in the
customized webauth page, the user will be redirected
to the URL specified in the "auth_web_ok.html"
page.
Related Articles
Meru Technical Note - Customizing the Splash Screen (Captive Portal screen)
