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This is the portal of the MAZI toolkit
http://www.mazizone.eu/toolkit/
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reset splashpage button or command #148

Open SilvanPixel opened 5 years ago

SilvanPixel commented 5 years ago

Once the splashpage has been visited by a device it cant be shown again. Would be great to have a reset button in the toolkit or an command line to reset the splashpage so it shows again on all devices.

panosnethood commented 5 years ago

Yes, many people have had this request recently. I guess it would be nice to be able to both manually reset the splash page for all devices and configure the time threshold that this happens automatically.

Related to this, but on the other extreme, in my own permanent installation it happens often that I get disconnected from the Internet because my "registration" has expired and it is not made obvious why this is the case. I think it would be nice when this happens users to be redirected again to the splash page instead of just getting disconnected.

@mavridis92 what do you think? Is this easy to implement or at least give instructions on how to administer important parameters of nodogsplash through the command line?

iomavridis commented 5 years ago

Bellow, you will find the reset procedure of the nodogsplash service. 1) Connected to the Toolkit. ssh pi@10.0.0.1 2) Get root privileges sudo su 3) Delete the Authenticated users file. rm /etc/mazi/users.dat 4) Restart the nodogsplash service. /etc/init.d/nodogsplash stop /etc/init.d/nodogsplash start

Regarding the reappearance of the splash page at the end of registration, one simple solution could be that to disconnect the user as you mention, but before we decide, I recommend investigating the opportunities of the nodogsplash v2 which is going to be installed to the new image Stretch.

haniavis commented 5 years ago

Hi,

what's the reason behind reseting the splash page? For debugging purposes I think it is better to do it through command-line, otherwise which is the case you need it?

mgaved commented 5 years ago

This is useful for me. I am manually editing the splash page with some custom text and formatting so (@haniavis ) I want to be able to review what I have done and play with it until the new splash screen looks how my community group wants it to look. At the moment this is fine to do using the command line but for a more accessible splash screen that can be edited by a wider number of people I would like the team to enable editing via easier tools. Thanks!

panosnethood commented 5 years ago

Did you try this URL? http://local.mazizone.eu:4567/splash

mgaved commented 5 years ago

Thanks Panosnethood - to clarify, you're saying going to http://local.mazizone.eu:4567/splash allows us to see the splashscreen again on the same device even though the device has logged in and the lease period has not expired (so this enables checking of edits to the html, etc. of the splash page). This is useful, thanks!