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Subject: Help in setting up SMS gateway with Clickatell
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:42:49 -0500
From: Alvin Kuo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Hi I am trying to integrate a SMS gateway with my application in an
Amazon EC2 instance (Ubuntu Linux), and I downloaded, installed, and
configured the conf file associated with Kannel. What I am trying to
achieve is to have Kannel work with Clickatell to receive and send
SMS's, and how it works is as follows: 1) Kannel receives SMS from
Clickatell and parses the first word of the sent text to send to the
appropriate url with sms-service group, 2) a php script will take in the
data, send it to mysql database, and retrieves the necessary info to
send back in a SMS, 3) the script signals Kannel to send the SMS to
Clickatell to send to mobile phones. To my knowledge, this is doable
through Kannel, and I do not want to use a GSM modem for increase in
scaling of SMS volume. If there is a way to skip Clickatell, and still
follow the outlined process of receiving and sending SMS, please inform me.
As of now it seems both the bearerbox and smsbox are working without
errors, though I do need to exit out of PuTTY's SSH client after I run
each box as it stalls in the command line. However, even when using the
/lynx/ command inside Ubuntu, I cannot send messages through the normal
way of the http interface suggested in the user manual (using this
general command:
/http://smsbox.localhost:port#/cgi-bin/sendsms?api_id=apiid#&username=clickatell
username&password=clickatell password&from="From
Align"&to=12345&text=Testing/), even when I open up access to the ports
specified in smsc and smsbox group. From what I can tell, lynx does
recognize the info after "/&from/" in the command above. Also do I need
to make a script for Kannel to download the SMS from Clickatell?
Though I could set up Kannel on a local computer, it would better to set
it up on the EC2 instance. As I have seen a few times when people
sought help to connect to Clickatell, I can sure use your collective
expertise to help me resolve this. Here are the relevant settings in
the conf file.
*Omitted some details in the core group
group = core
admin-port = #####
admin-deny-ip = "*.*.*.*"
admin-allow-ip = "127.0.0.1";"196.30.96.134"
smsbox-port = 13728
store-type = spool
dlr-storage = "internal"
group = smsc
smsc = http
smsc-id = click
system-id = #apiid
system-type = clickatell
smsc-username = #clickatell username
smsc-password = #clickatell password
send-url = "http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendsmg";
log-file = "/var/log/kannel/smsc_http.log"
log-level = 0
port = 13493
connect-allow-ip = "127.0.0.1;192.168.*.*;196.30.96.134";
group = sendsms-user
username = clickatell username
password = clickatell password
user-allow-ip = "127.0.0.1";"196.30.96.134"
concatenation = true
max-messages = 10
group = smsbox
bearerbox-host = 127.0.0.1
sendsms-port = 13728
log-file = "/var/log/kannel/smsbox.log"
log-level = 0
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Alvin Kuo, Align Co-founder & CIO
(630)-729-4384 <tel:%28630%29-729-4384>
