Many businesses use a portal page to allow their employees access to company resources from anywhere in the world. Pfsense provides an excellent captive portal solution that can be configured to work with many popular web browsers. This guide will show you how to install and configure Pfsense as a portal page, so that your employees can log in and access your company resources securely.
What is Pfsense Captive Portal?
Pfsense Captive Portal is a feature of the Pfsense router that allows visitors to access a secured website or application through the router. This can be used to provide access to a company's intranet, or to allow visitors to access a website while they are at home.
To set up PFSense Captive Portal, you first need to create an external web server and configure the router to point to it. You then need to create a page in the web server that will serve as the captive portal page. This page should have the following content:
Name:
URL:
Login Page:
Captive Portal Description:
The Login Page should have the following content:
Enter username and password for user account:
username:
password:
How to Login to Your Pfsense Portal
When you first set up your Pfsense firewall, you were asked to create a login page. This page is where users can enter their user name and password to gain access to your firewall. You can also use this page to administer your firewall from a remote location.
To create a login page, follow these steps:
1. Log in to the Pfsense web-based interface.
2. Click the Firewall: Edit Profile button on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Click the Login Page tab at the top of the screen.
4. Enter the details of your login page in the Login Page Fields box. Name and description are optional, but recommended if you plan to use this page regularly.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the screen to finish setting up your login page.
You can now use this page to log in to your firewall when you need to manage it from a remote location or set up new profiles or rules.
How to Enable Remote Access to Your Pfsense Portal
If you're like most administrators, you likely want to be able to remotely access your Pfsense firewall from anywhere in the world. This is especially handy if you have employees who need to access your firewall from outside the office, or if you need to troubleshoot issues from a remote location.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to enable remote access to your Pfsense portal using the captive portal feature. Captive portal is a great way to allow users who don't already have an account on your network to access your firewall through a web browser. Simply configure your portal page and password, and users will be automatically redirected to your secured website.
To get started, we first need to create a new captive portal page. To do this, open the Pfsense management console and navigate to Firewall > Portal Pages. Click the Add New button and enter the following information:
Name: Guest Portal Page
URL: http://192.168.1.1/guestportal/
Description: A guest portal page for allowing visitors access without logging in
Conclusion
Have you ever been in a situation where you need to access your company's intranet but don't have access to the internet? Pfsense can help you solve this problem by creating a captive portal. A captive portal is a protected website that allows authorized users (employees, customers, partners) to enter information such as their username and password and surf the web freely while remaining authenticated on the company network. To create a captive portal with Pfsense, follow these steps: 1. Configure your router for PPTP and L2TP/IPsec 2. Install pfSense 3. Set up the firewall 4. Create the user accounts 5. Activate the captive portal Now that you know how to create and configure a captive portal with Pfsense, it's time to learn how to login using it! To login using Pfsense, follow these steps: 1. Log into your account on pfSense 2. Click Administration > System > Captive Portal Settings 3. Enter