Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:50 am
As I already said if you have wildcard DNS entries you can do without an external DNS server.
You do need the Hotspot so you can redirect requests for any web resource on any host that a client could possibly request. Alternatively your web server would have to take care of that. Remember, a client could request absolutely anything. Web servers tend to only answer requests for resources they actually have. The Hotspot is a neat way to work around that.
The Hotspot will always show a login page. 'Login page' refers to the page the router shows to let people log in in its process. That doesn't mean you actually have to let people log in on that page, or even have a form for logins. It just refers to the login.html that the Hotspot is going to want to serve - you can put anything into that file that you want. I have no idea how FTP comes into this, or what trials have to do with this. If everything is self contained what are you having people try?