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.

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.

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.

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.

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.