Adding a New Captive Portal
Perform the steps in this procedure to add a portal.
- Navigate to Captive Portal > My Portals and select the site for which the portal is to be created. Click Create Portal.
- Enter a unique Portal Name for your site and select a Layout and Theme Color from the pallet for the portal authentication page. Click Next.
- Upload your Logo and a Mobile Background or a Desktop Background. Separate background display images are required for desktop and mobile devices. Images in the JPG and PNG format are supported. Click Next.
Note:When upgrading from an older release, the one image uploaded is used for both desktop and mobile devices and first theme is applied by default. - Enter the acceptable usage policy for the visitors of your establishment/site and select Policy Statement to prompt users to accept the policy prior to logging in.
- Select the supported/permissible authentication methods.
Email Password – Allows visitors to login using the captive portal. The login credentials are the same as portal users.
Social Login – Allows visitors to login using their Facebook, Google, Instagram, or LinkedIn credentials.
One Tap Login - Allows visitors to login without any authentication mechanism. - Select the Language for your portal authentication page. English is the default and the supported languages are, French, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, and Portuguese. Click Next.
- Enable Email to collect email information during visitor authentication through Captive Portal; enable Verify Email to verify the collected email information. In case of One Tap Login, you can optionally select additional user data collection such as, phone number, gender, and age.
- For visitors to receive the company's newsletter regularly, enable Subscribe to the company's newsletter.
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Configure the website redirection options for visitors after successful login into the captive portal.
Default Success Page – Visitors are redirected to a successfully logged in portal page.
Original Request URL – Visitors are redirected to the initial URL they tried to browse before authenticating on the portal.Specific URL – Visitors are redirected to the URL specified while creating the portal, for example https://www.fortinet .com.
- To download the portal for customization, click Download.
- Click Save.
The portals created can be edited and deleted.
Note: For paid tier users, FortiPresence displays the visitors’ e mail address, mobile number, age, and gender on the portal login pages on their devices.
This is a sample captive portal created and viewed on the FortiPresence GUI.