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ESPRESSO PHP PORTAL v0.9

FreeWifi PHP Captive Portal, useful for builds coffee or restaurants free hotspots without pay external cloud services. Works with Ubiquiti Unifi controller v4.X and v5.X

NB: This project has been deprecated. It's works anyway, but I suggest you to take a look to a modern springboot reimplementation with embedded webserver and administration panel: jEspresso Guest Portal

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WARNING: Some countries' laws, require a logging data for guests activities from wifi hotspots. This tool does not collect any data or logs, so use it at your risk. If required in your country, install a logging system by yourself. I'm not responsible for law violations!

FEATURES

  • Mac address/email authentication for free limited-time wifi access;
  • Registered users authentication (support limited time login from single mac address);
  • Remaining time counter for users (you can show them fake values, hiding minutes from remaining time);
  • Blocking expired session's mac-address for minutes (or hours / days);
  • Multilanguage and language browser detection (italian/english);
  • Single customizable frontend theme.
  • Mail login supports for guests, with logging useful for signing up to newsletters - NEW
  • Disabling registered users login (set hotspot for guests only) - NEW
  • Permanent login support - NEW

REQUIREMENTS

  • Ubiquiti Unifi Controller (tested on 4.8.20 version)
  • Linux Debian or Windows Lamp (tested on Debian and Raspbian 8)
  • Nginx or Apache2 webserver with php enabled
  • Sqlite3 or Mysql 5.5 server
  • PHP 5.5 with mysql and/or sqlite3 PDO support
  • PhpMyAdmin or external database client for backend [OPTIONAL]

INSTALL

  1. Prepare your system installing the unifi controller, a web server (Nginx/Apache) with PHP/PDO CURL and a DBMS (Mysql or Sqlite3);

  2. Put guest/ directory into webserver root (like /var/www/html) and change permissions to access www-data webserver user;

  3. To increase security, move guest/s/default/db/hotspot.sqlite and hotspot.sql files to another path (like /var) inaccessible from web, but accessible from php;

  4. Edit guest/s/default/config.inc.php Unifi Controller options, database settings and $GLOBALS['sessionLogging'] with random string.

  5. If you use mysql, import hotspot.sql file into database (you can use PhpMyAdmin). If you prefer sqlite, set $GLOBALS['dbms']='sqlite' and $GLOBALS['sqliteFile'] to hotspot.sqlite file. For backend you can use sqliteweb (https://github.com/coleifer/sqlite-web).

  6. Log in in Unifi Controller and set External Hotspot (from Guest Policies) to redirect to custom captive ip address.

  7. All access will be logged into access_logs database table (set $GLOBALS['logAccessEnabled']) to false for disabling logging)

  8. Set $GLOBALS['GuestMailAccess'] to true to enable guest authentication by email address (useful for signing up to newsletter)

  9. Set $GLOBALS['showHomeRegistered'] to false to hide disable registered accounts (guest only)

  10. Enjoy


LICENSE

This tool is released under MIT License


CREDITS

This Captive Portal is based on


FUTURE RELEASES

Springboot / Angular reimplementation. Work in progress.

ESPRESSO-ADMIN BACKEND (works only with mysql!)

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Download Espresso-admin

AUTHOR

Emanuele Paiano - nixw0rm [at] gmail [dot] com


SUPPORT ME

If you like this project, consider a little donation, so I can buy new hardware for testing and development. At least you can offer me a coffee.. :)

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