Hi all, I'm trying to get back to Asterisk for the third time. I've had it set up on my Linux desktop to play with but never really left it deployed for normal use. Instead I bailed out and got my ATA (an unlocked Linksys PAP2T) to connect straight to my voip provider. I found that having the ATA connect to Asterisk added too much complexity for me to debug.
Now that I have a box that I want to dedicate 90% to Asterisk for my small business and home, I decided to take a shortcut and use AsteriskNOW. I got it installed and running with Beta 6 but I couldn't get the ATA or any SIP softphone to register.
Then I read that there have been a lot of updates since Beta 6. So I updated using conary according to these directions http://www.asterisknow.org/node/48450 from a developer blog post.
Now the box boots and I can get in via ssh or the rPath appliance web ui but the Asterisk web GUI is nowhere to be found.
Any suggestions? Would I be better off starting over with trixbox, FreePBX or a hand-rolled Asterisk build on CentOS? (I'm actually leaning towards the latter).
Wow that was painful. Apparently AsteriskNOW uses lighttpd which I'm pretty unfamiliar with but I figured out there are two servers running, One for configuring the "appliance" on port 8003 or 8004 and one for Asterisk. The latter was started but was misconfigured somehow, in /etc/asterisk-gui/lighttpd.conf they had:
$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
proxy.server = (
"" => (
( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 8088 )
)
)
}
Removing the guts of that leaves
$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {
}
Which fixed the problem with the GUI not showing up - of course I had to kill lighttpd and restart it with
/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/asterisk-gui/lighttpd.conf
before seeing the change.
Unfortunately there are still piles of things that answer 404 and I can only guess that I got something totally broken from the AsteriskNOW svn repository...
I haven't tried AsteriskNOW yet, but building it yourself isn't that difficult if you've got something like the O'Reilly Asterisk book beside you (a free download from http://www.asteriskdocs.org/)
I gave up on that one and decided to just do CentOS and put everything else on myself. I'm trying out FreePBX as a web front end to it.