This is a good tutorial. We were banging our heads trying to get chillispot working and came to the conclusion that Chillispot needs to run on the router. Then after over a year of reading tutorials like this one, trying this, that and the other thing we had something unique.

We finally developed the WiFi Gator project and is now available to the public.
Unlike the other links  and alternatives found on this page that are revenue sharing hotspots, the WiFi Gator is something you own and run on your own server and keep all of the profits.

We have taken the best of chillispot and wifidog and created a hotspot management system that has almost every feature that worldspot and sputnik boasts.

We have a live DVD, just boot it up and click "install" Then reboot from the harddrive, everything you need is now up and running. point your routers chilispot to the IP of your new server and there you have your first captive portal.

The WiFi Gator upports unlimited hotspots, assign multiple paypal accounts to individual hotspots, Create batches of prepaid tickets with the hotspots logo (displayed in a dynamic PDF for accurate printing), Excel generated reports for prepaid ticket activity, Individually set up each hotspots payment plans(Time and prices). Every hotspot landing page has a web based wysiwyg editor.

You own it, You keep all the money, check it out at WiFiGator.com

Also the code is all open so that you can modify it all you want.

We have worked out the bugs and added many features. Setting up a world class hotspot is not easy and the response we have gotten in the past few months that we released this has been overwhelmingly positive.

Cheers
Loren