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  • MikroTik Hotspot HTTPS Redirect with Free SSL Certificate

    SSL Certificate is required to enable HTTPS Login and HTTPS Redirect in MikroTik Hotspot. In one of my last articles I discussed how to configure MikroTik Hotspot HTTPS redirect and HTTPS login with MikroTik self-signed certificate. But self-signed certificate is not trusted by operating system. So, we get the following two issues if we configure HTTPS Login and HTTPS Redirect with self-signed certificate. Ask to proceed unsafe site: As browsers cannot trust self-signed certificate, it shows a warning message and asks to proceed unsafe site every time the login page redirected with HTTPS redirect. Users may face disgusting seeing this warning message again and again. Error or Warning icon in URL bar: Although we proceed the login page warning, browser also shows a red or yellow icon in URL bar. It also makes us confused whether the connection is secured or not. Although self-signed certificate always establish secure connection by encrypting data, the above two issues make us confused and disgusting sometimes. To solve the above two issues we need to use public CA certificate that will be trusted by operating system and browsers. Public CA requires yearly subscription fee to get their service. Although this payment is not so [...]

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    MikroTik Hotspot HTTPS Redirect and HTTPS Login Setup |   May 24, 2020

    MikroTik Hotspot is one of the most popular services in MikroTik Router. It is a policy to authorize network clients before to access local network resources as well as public network resources through MikroTik Router. In my previous article I discussed MikroTik Hotspot Configuration using Winbox. But default MikroTik Hotspot configuration faces HTTPS Redirect and HTTPS Login issues. To solve these issues, MikroTik Hotspot HTTPS configuration is required. So, in this article I will discuss how to configure MikroTik Hotspot [...]

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    MikroTik Hotspot Server Configuration in RouterOS 7 |   April 25, 2023

    MikroTik Hotspot is an awesome service to run a captive portal network. You can run a public Wi-Fi network, Hotel Network, Airport network, CAMP Wi-Fi network, Shopping Mall Network and so on using MikroTik Hotspot and even can monetize your network for earning if you use Hotspot Billing Software like GalaxyRAD which is specially designed for MikroTik Hotspot network. GalaxyRAD helps to monetize your any network providing online payment gateway as well as integrating voucher-based system. It also helps to [...]

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    MikroTik HotSpot One to One NAT/Universal HotSpot NAT |   September 27, 2020

    MikroTik Hotspot is an awesome service that can be customized widely. When MikroTik Hotspot is enabled on an interface, it adds dynamic destination NAT rules which will redirect all HTTP and HTTPS requests from unauthorized users to the Hotspot authentication proxy. So, no user can get internet access in Hotspot network without authentication. MikroTik Hotspot also uses one to one NAT providing an IP address from selected IP Pool and this IP address handles user’s data and limitation. Sometimes we [...]

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    MikroTik Hotspot Login by HTTP CHAP, HTTP PAP and HTTPS |   July 25, 2020

    MikroTik Hotspot uses various types of login methods. Among these login methods HTTP CHAP, HTTP PAP and HTTPS are basic and important login methods. So, a MikroTik system administrator should have proper understanding on Hotspot HTTP CHAP, HTTP PAP and HTTPS login methods. In my previous article I discussed how to configure MikroTik Hotspot using Winbox. In this article I will discuss how to use HTTP CHAP, HTTP PAP and HTTPS login methods properly in MikroTik Hotspot Server. MikroTik Hotspot [...]

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    Internet Content Filtering in MikroTik Router using OpenDNS |   August 22, 2024

    Internet content is always not safe for our work or home network. We always face malware, phishing and adult content which are harmful for office or home internet. Using web content filtering software, we can easily get rid of this harmful content. OpenDNS is a cloud-based internet content filtering solution that helps to keep our office or home internet free from malware, virus and adult content. Configuring Free OpenDNS Home Internet feature with our Home WiFi Router, we can easily [...]

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    How to Get Free SSL Certificate from ZeroSSL |   June 13, 2020

    SSL/TLS certificate is an essential part in today internet communication. Online communication cannot imagine without SSL/TLS certificate. SSL/TLS certificate makes online communication secure by encrypting data transmitted over public internet. So, most of the applications (Web, Email and VPN services) those transmit data over public internet use SSL/TLS certificate to secure communication. SSL/TLS certificate requires to be signed by Certificate Authority (CA). It is possible to create self-signed certificate with SSL certificate creation tools such as OpenSSL. Some router venders [...]

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    Apache2 Web Server HTTPS Configuration on Ubuntu Server |   August 15, 2021

    Data transmission between web server and web client over port 80 (HTTP) is not encrypted. So, any middle man between web server and web client can view transmitted data and can steal secret information. To overcome this limitation, HTTPS Protocol over port 443 has been introduced. HTTPS is a secure web server that is configured with SSL/TLS certificate. TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are web protocols used to wrap normal traffic in a protected, [...]

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    MikroTik DNS Client and Caching DNS Server Configuration |   April 7, 2019

    Domain Name Server (DNS) is an essential part in a computer network. Today web communication cannot imagine without DNS. DNS is a client server protocol where DNS Client requests for the domain name resolution and DNS Server response on it. MikroTik Router has both DNS Client and DNS Server features. The DNS Client is used to resolve domain name to IP address from a DNS Server. On the other hand, the DNS Server feature provides domain name resolution for the [...]

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    FreeRADIUS Installation and Basic Configuration on CentOS 7 |   November 28, 2018

    FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance and highly customizable open source RADIUS server. Anyone can use FreeRADIUS without any charge and can customize his RADIUS server according to his organizational requirements. In my previous article, I discussed how to install and configure user manager RADIUS server developed by MikroTik. The main disadvantage of user manager RADIUS server is ‘it is not customizable and not suitable for medium or large organization’. On the other hand, FreeRADIUS is giving facility to customize [...]

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