[Asterisk-Users] Config File Storage

[tim panton]

On 24 Jan 2006, at 01:42, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> I'm trying to think of a way to store/represent the Asterisk .conf  
> files. One method is to store them in MySQL in some format, and  
> then write some scripts to query MySQL and generate the conf files  
> before doing a reload.
>
> MySQL is pretty heavy handed though. I'm looking for something a  
> bit more lightweight, maybe.... some sort of XML based database for  
> Linux, where the config files could be stored in XML format?  
> Doesn't seem like it would be too hard to represent them this way.

Yeah, we use XML as a DB-lite in some of our websites (not for  
Asterisk config). It is cute but
you have to watch out if you update often or concurrently. Only a  
single process can update an
file xml at a time. What's more you have to rewrite the whole file,  
which can be expensive.


>
> Trying to find a way to store them so they can be accessed easier  
> from a web interface.

If you plan to do on-demand updates via this interface
you are probably going to find it easier to use a 'real' database,  
ideally one with
transactions, rollback, views etc.... but that is a whole other  
argument :-)

>
> Thanks, Doug
>


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