Haven’t posted in a while so I thought I’d share a fix I found for Parental Controls and proxy servers.
There appears to be an issue in both Lion and Mountain Lion with Parental Controls and proxy servers, when a user has Parental Controls enabled and they try to access the Internet through a proxy server a blank page is returned, attempting to connect through cURL returns a “empty reply from server” error. Continue reading →
As promised in my previous post, I have now completed the PHP script for making the connection between the pfSense Captive Portal authentication log and the Squid authentication log.
trafficlog trafficlog 1.1 – Needs to be placed in /usr/local/www/ and renamed to trafficlog.php
captiveportal captiveportal 1.1 – Needs to be placed in /usr/local/www/ and renamed to captiveportal.php
download – Needs to be placed in /usr/local/www/captivetraffic/ (The captivetraffic folder will need to be created.)
index – To replace the original in /usr/local/captiveportal/
A cron job to create the completeportalauth.log file will need to be setup, easiest way to do this is a install the Cron package and then add the following settings – Minute – 1, Hour – *, Mday – *, Month – *, Wday – *, Who – root, command – clog /var/log/portalauth.log >> /var/log/completeportalauth.log No longer required.
Unfortunately due to security built into WordPress, I cannot upload PHP files, so once you’ve download the downloaded the txt files you will need to change the extension to .php.
Please note, I’m no programmer, and I only did this so that my colleagues need not ssh into pfSense to run the commands. Depending on how large your logs are, the page may take a while to load.
I chose the load the log in an iFrame due to PHP running out of memory, outputting to a file and making it available for download was simplest way I could think of to get around this. The /usr/local/www/captivetraffic/ folder might begin to get quite full, but a nightly cron job that clears the log will fix this.