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I'm trying to create a wifi hotspot with my Raspberry Pi B+ that redirects the connected devices to a specific HTML page, hosted on the Raspberry. I can create the hotspot following this tutorial. Is there a way to force a HTML page load, like some routers do?

The plan is:

  1. The user will connect to the Raspberry Pi wifi hotspot.
  2. The user device will load a HTML page hosted on the Rasp.
  3. The user will download files through the links on the HTML page.
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You could do that with iptables.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j DNAT --to-destination localhost:80
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination localhost:80

This redirects all requests made via port 80 and 443 (i.e. opening any website) to be redirected to whatever is running on your hotspot's port 80.

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  • So, I'll just need an Apache server running?
    – bodruk
    Jan 20, 2016 at 12:42
  • How do I disable this redirect?
    – bodruk
    Jan 20, 2016 at 13:16
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    With command: iptables -L --line-numbers you'll get line numbers for rules and then you can delete single line with iptables -D nat 1 for example. To delete all iptables rules you can use iptables -F
    – Bungee75
    Jan 22, 2016 at 18:53

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