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.
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