Dynamic Login Pages Overview

Introduction

• RADIUSdesk includes an applet called Login Pages which makes it easy to manage the login pages of captive portals.
• We currently support CoovaChilli and Mikrotik based Captive Portals.
• Over the past 7+ years we used Webix based login pages.
• Although they served us well until now we decided to move to Bootstrap 5 based login pages for the following reasons.
  • Bootstrap is under active development (Current version is version 5) and has a beautiful look and feel.
  • Bootstrap is well known to many developers which should make it easy for them to tweak a Bootstrap based login page and adapt to their environment should the need arise.
• The Webix based login pages is still available however and can be used although new development and features will be focused around the Bootstrap 5 based login pages.

Components of a Login Page

• Each login page will have the following three items
  • Top Toolbar
  • Image(s)
  • Login Screen
• Lets discuss these items further each under its own sectional heading.

Top Toolbar

• The content and appearance of the top toolbar depends on the settings of the Login Page.
• The Top Toolbar can contain the following
  • A Connect link which causes the Login Screen to show.
  • A Title for the page. This item is configurable.
  • Login Pages that is configured to support multiple languages will include a menu item to select a different language.

Images

• The Login Page will show at least one image.
• The image as well as the presentation of the image is all configurable when you edit the Login Page.

Login Screen

• The Login Screen is a Pop-Up window who's contend and behavior depends on the settings of the Login Page and will be covered in detail on its own dedicated wiki page.