David Kerr wrote: > Now that I have AstLinux running in my VMWare machine I started to play > with the various GUIs. I have a couple of observations. > > First, I was surprised, but delighted, to find that the asterisk-gui > fired up and worked for me... > http://<yourIPaddr>:8088/asterisk/static/config/cfgbasic.html > At least some of the pages did. Several come back with a 404 Not Found > error. But I was able to add a trunk (service provider in asterisk-gui > terminology) and a couple of extensions (users). The "advanced" version > of asterisk-gui does not appear to be there, which means that there are > some settings that you would still need to go into a config file for. > > I was able to place calls between extensions (softphones) and to the > asterisk demos (echo test, call to Digium) and voicemail. However I > have not been able to get a call go out through my service provider > trunk. Not sure what the problem is... asterisk-gui related, or > something I've done wrong. I'm still investigating. > > Unfortunately one of the 404 Not Found errors comes from the pages that > report asterisk status, so it is hard to see what is going on. > > Fortunately Lonnie's alternate web interface defaults to the asterisk > status page. I love it. I also like that it lets me edit base AstLinux > settings. A very useful addition would be a link (tab?) that lets me > bring up asterisk-gui so that I don't have to type the whole URL in. > Unfortunately the alternate web interface doesn't have a way to edit > asterisk config files. Nor does the asterisk-gui (that I can find). > Which leads you to... > > The base default AstLinux GUI. Which is nice in itself, and lets you > edit config files. But you can't do anything that Lonnie's GUI or > asterisk-gui can do. And worse of all, you have to edit rc.conf to > switch between default and Lonnie's GUI. > > Which leads me to the conclusion that AstLinux team needs to merge the > base GUI and Lonnie's GUI into the base... and provide a link to > asterisk-gui which needs to have the 404 Not Founds fixes. This is all > so close that I can almost taste it. Merging all this would make an > absolutely first rate appliance gateway/PBX solution. > > I'll report further as I learn more. > > David.
David, Thanks for your feedback. The way the various gui's are implemented, you could make the modifications to do all of this. For the most part, the gui I use is called vi. In general, Astlinux is designed to be a framework that you can add or modify to make it do what you want. The Asterisk-gui probably needs to be updated to a later version. You might check some of the log files to see why some of the pages are coming up as 404. There may be a good reason that's detailed in the logs. So far, Lonnie's evolving gui is not part of the Astlinux standard distribution. Hopefully it will continue to be refined and perhaps may replace the existing gui at some point. Lonnie's done a great job with it so far. Most of what's there is designed to work for him. It's also flexible enough that you can modify it as you see fit for your own use. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com http://www.djhsolutions.com/wiki ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
