[Asterisk-Users] Vmail.cgi Bahhh!!

[niles at atheos.net]

On Oct 20, 2004, at 8:49 AM, Your Own ISP .com wrote:

> OK, been at this for a few hours now.
>
> I am on Fedora 2 trying like heck to get the web based Vmail thing 
> working.
>
> I have it to the point where I can login to it successfully but no 
> messages
> ever show up there even though I know they exist.
>
> I am getting the voicemail messages OK in my email.
>
> I CHMOD'd the vmail dir to 777 just for testing purposes, I installed 
> the
> required Perl Module.
>
> Not sure what's left to try, any ideas would be most welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
>   Todd Routhier
>   Lightwave Technologies, LLC.
>
>

Todd,

asterisk records the files to the filesystem with root permissions, 
which
a properly configured apache installation doesn't have access too.
I worked around this by setting up a cronjob to chmod 777 all the 
voicemail
files once a minute, which probably isn't the most elegant solution to 
this problem.
my crontab entry:
# cheap way to fix our permissions for voicemail
* * * * * /etc/vm_chmod.bat > /dev/null

/etc/vm_chmod.bat:

#!/bin/sh
chmod -R 777 /var/spool/asterisk/vm

If someone else doesn't give a better solution, you can try this.

Niles