[asterisk-users] File structure question

[Jay Moore]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:52:00PM -0500, Jay Moore wrote:
>> I have a question on how I can better organize my .conf files.
>>
>> I have 3 different groups of people who use my VoIP service. Let's call 
>> them 'Office', 'Factory' and 'Public'. In my Asterisk directory, I have 
>> created three folders: 'office', 'factory' and 'public', inside each of 
>> which has a sip.conf and an extensions.conf file with appropriate 
>> account and extension information.
>>
>> Say, for example, I need to limit some users of the 'Public' group so 
>> they cannot make calls outside the building. Obviously I would create 
>> two separate contexts. One for users who can make calls outside the 
>> build, and one for users who cannot. I would then assign the appropriate 
>> context to each user.
>>
>> Right now, I have each appropriate context defined in the main 
>> extensions.conf. What I'd like to do is reduce the clutter in 
>> extensions.conf and move each context into the extensions.conf in the 
>> appropriate subfolder. How do I tell the main extensions.conf file to 
>> include the other extensions.conf files without putting an #include 
>> <file> in a context of its own?
>>
>> I hope what I've explained makes sense. If not, please ask questions and 
>> I'll try to answer.
> 
> #include is a verbatim text include. 
> 
> if extensions.conf has:
> 
> 
> [main]
> exten => aaa,1,Line1
> 
> #include "otherfile.conf"
> 
> exten => aaa,2,Line2
> 
> and othererfile.conf has:
> 
> exten => aaa,2,OtherLine1
> 
> [other]
> 
> exten => aaa,1,OtherLine2
> 
> 
> 
> You'll eventually get:
> 
> 
> 
> main: aaa: 
>   1. Line1
>   2. OtherLine1
> 
> other: aaa:
>   1. OtherLine2
>   2. Line2
>  

Right, I guess I was wondering if it's possible to include a file 
without it being in a context.  The goal I wanted to achieve was to have 
as few contexts in the main extensions.conf file as possible.

Jay