server provided home pages for all network machines' browser
 

I wonder how the home page for any browser is forced from the Server. I have seen this when connecting to a public wifi or network. Regardless of what you set your home page as, it gets overridden by the provider's home page. I have read that this is implemented by Windows server group policy (probably AD). Is this something achievable in an all Linux server environment (Router/DNS/DHCP) to mixed clients (Linux/Windows/Mac)?

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Achievable through Apache via the use of sessions, very difficult, usually used for session based services like free wifi at public places like hotels, coffee shops, etc..

Take a quick look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...eb-application

That should help get you started in the right direction with some key terms to start looking up. Let us know if you have specific questions along the way.

Thanks very much Kustom42. I will have a look and put my feedback here.

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