Meru Technical Note - How to extract the default files for captive portal from the controller

[nmichael]

Description

How to extract the default files for captive portal from the controller.

Scope
KB Article Type: Configuration

RELATED PRODUCTS: Controller Platforms

RELATED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: 4.0 and above

KEYWORDS: captive portal, default, custom mode, captive, get files, captive portal files
Solution

Following the below steps you can extract the default files of captive portal from the controller. Further the files could be modified/edited as per the requirement for using them as custom captive portal page.

Steps :

Go to Maintenance ---> Captive portal ---> Customization ---> Click on option GET FILES.

The above will get the captive portal pages as a tar file. If you extract the tar file you will see two folders.

1. cgi-bin.vpn.custom
2. html.vpn

The folder named as html.vpn will have all the html files used as default by the controller. These files needs to be uploaded back to the controller using the same name as original file after modifying them.

NOTE : The GET FILE option can be used in both the modes, 1. Custom Mode 2. Default Mode. It doesn't after which mode is selected but controller extracts only the default files when clicked on get files button.