Captive Portal - CoovaChilli

[cmbranco]

Hello all
I´m planning to use my raspberry PI to limit the access to my wireless.

I want to create an HotSpot and install a captive portal so that users have to login before using the internet access.

Does anyone tryed this? I saw in other topic to use the following "chillispot_1.0-10.1_armhf.deb" but i believe this is an old version and i always get the message "segmentation fault" after instalation.

Any ideas or alternatives for a captive portal solution?

Thanks

[broo0ose]

CoovaChilli is the captive portal system, but you need something for it to authenticate against. This is usually a RADIUS server. In some circles this is known as a AAA server which stands for Authentication Authorisation and Accounting. The usual open source RADIUS server is FreeRADIUS which is excellent, but can be a bit daunting as there are so many options.

I've done it using YFi and CoovaChilli on PCs using Ubuntu. I have 13 Coova Chilli hotspots around the country being managed centrally from one YFi instance. But you can have both on one piece of hardware. I've never tried it on a Pi though.

It works very well on a PC. The YFi system is excellent, it allows you to set up vouchers, and permanent users. Even MAC address authentication and paid access. Walt the developer is very helpful. It uses MySQL and FreeRADIUS as a back end.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hotcakes/
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/hotcak ... /WikiStart
http://www.coova.org/CoovaChilli

[freehotspot]

Hello,

i am looking for a good tutorial for Coova-Chilli with YFI on a Raspi... Do you know any?

[broo0ose]

Not specifically for RasPi. But the wiki here is very good.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/hotcak ... /WikiStart

[chon]

I've done up a howto guide on how to install CoovaChilli on the Pi and it's in a .doc file format. When I try and post it I'm given an error. I changed the format to an openfile format but that is also rejected. As this is my first post and it is reviewed to make sure it is not spam I'm hoping the reviewer will tell me how to do this. I'll post this document as soon as I can.
Chon

[grovep]

Thanks
I did have a go at the guide at http://aryo.info/labs/captive-portal-us ... ables.html but seemed to go amiss when setting iptables. I look forward to your guide.

[chon]

Hi all.

I've put together this howto guide on how to install CoovaChilli on the Pi. Please feel free to edit it and improve on it as you see fit. Should you have any issues, questions, or comments, I'd be happy to help out.

Thanks,
chon

[grovep]

I've managed to compile chilli but get a different output when I install it:
chown cannot access /etc/chilli/www - no file or directory
chillil default off look at etc/default/chilli

Also 1 typo (I think) step 4 "nano /etc/freeradius/radius.conf" should read "nano /etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf"

Thanks for a very extensive guide

[chon]

Hi grovep.

I ran into this error as well when I tried to compile CoovaChilli. The fix is the following. Go into the file:
$ sudo nano /usr/src/coova-chilli-1.3.0/debian/rules

Close to the bottom of the file you need to change the line:
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp install
to:
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=/ install

Then re-compile.

To confirm this is the issue, you may want to install the .deb file using the dpkg -i command. The downside to doing this is that you'll have to remove all the files installed by this prior to reinstalling the re-compiled .deb file (a bit of a pain in the butt) but the upside is that you'll be able to check whether the /etc/chilli/www directory is under the /usr/src/coova-chilli-1.3.0/debian/tmp/ directory (which I suspect is the case). There shouldn't be anything in there by the way. In fact, there shouldn't even be a tmp directory. If there's a .../debian/tmp directory with directories and files in it then the above change will fix your issue.

Let me know if this helps. Thanks for pointing out the typo.
chon

[grovep]

My /usr/src/debian/rules files looks like this already

Code: Select all

install: build
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
        dh_clean -k
        dh_prep
        dh_installdirs
        $(MAKE) DESTDIR=/install

[grovep]

I'll try with a space between the "/" and "install"

[chon]

That's the likely culprit. Let me know how it goes.

[grovep]

yes that was the culprit. - Thanks
Now managed to get it running but not quite working properly - no internet access, redirects when I attempt to access the router but even after authenticating still no access to internet nor router
My config is 2 wired nics eth0 facing internet and eth1 facing home network. I will check IP addresses etc next few days when I have a little more time.

Thanks

[itza3985]

hi. I also I have the same problem. achievement not have internet access. I use coovachilli, yfi, please if you can help me or give me an idea of how to solve the problem :?

[codelectron]

hi. I also I have the same problem. achievement not have internet access. I use coovachilli, yfi, please if you can help me or give me an idea of how to solve the problem

did you add this line
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
at the end of this file /etc/chilli/up.sh

Krishna
www.codelectron.com

[Shiki]

Hi All, I have tried the above setup steps closely on the doc, works till the last portion when I try tried the first test login, I saw redirect of URL and coova logo with a blank page.

Anyone can advise how to troubleshoot the problem?

[hmvy88]

Which is a web server using CoovaChilli ???

[hmvy88]

When I try to enter with the browser appear "coova redirecting" next don't charge nothing.... Please Help me

[codelectron]

Can you post your dmesg and other log messages?
Check if your radius, and chilli are running fine using ps -e |grep radius.

Krishna
www.codelectron.com

[arcanon]

At last, I found a way to allow anonymous users per MAC address and then you can track each user to only allow 30 min per day. I can't believe this feature is not there by default and its so easy to up in. Details at:
http://subgroup-ash.blogspot.de/2014/02 ... allow.html

[hmvy88]

Thanks but I solved reinstalling CoovaChilli

[aaxx254]

If eth0 does not connect to the network，can not to redirect.
How should I do?

[MassDivide]

I wish I could find a solution here.

Says its installed:
http://i.imgur.com/F0r0Gv7.png

Configed:
http://i.imgur.com/GYCD4ZN.png


And this is what I get after the "coova redirecting"

http://i.imgur.com/xaltFmw.png

[nepalaya]

when ever i start coova chilli it gives an error could not generate configuration fie /var/run/ coova.2742.cgi.bin please help me. i am new here

[moymac]

I wish I could find a solution here.

Says its installed:
http://i.imgur.com/F0r0Gv7.png

Configed:
http://i.imgur.com/GYCD4ZN.png


And this is what I get after the "coova redirecting"

http://i.imgur.com/xaltFmw.png

Hey MassDivide. Any solution yet? I have the same problem