[asterisk-users] Debian etch and web voice mail - how to configure it?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:59:45PM -0400, Jim Archer wrote:
> --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:35 PM +0300 Tzafrir Cohen 
> <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> 
> >We're talking about
> >http://packages.debian.org/stable/comm/asterisk-web-vmail
> >
> >( http://packages.debian.org/asterisk-web-vmail )
> >
> >It actually requires httpd-cgi. Apache happens to be one of the packages
> >that provide that...
> 
> Ah, okay.
> 
> >>When I point my browser at my PBX machine, the web page says "It Works!"
> >
> >What web page, exactly?
> 
> It seems like the sample page bundled with the package, but it's not the 
> typical Apache was just installed page I am used to seeing.  It really is 
> nothing more than a header that says "It Works!" which I thought odd.
> 
> >That package doesn't have many files:
> 
> Right, but it has many dependencies, like Apache 2.  So lots of stuff got 
> dragged in along the way.

Do you prefer lighttpd, thttpd or anything else? Tell that to apt
explicitly.

e.g:

  apt-get install asterisk-web-vmail lighthttpd

This will use lighthttpd instead of apache. Both provide httpd-cgi .

> 
> >The only relevant one is:
> >
> >/usr/lib/cgi-bin/asterisk/vmail.cgi
> 
> That's there, but I was not sure if it came with the asterisk package or 
> the asterisk-web-vmail package.
> 
> >So what do you get when you try:
> >
> >  http://yourhost/cgi-bin/asteriskvmail.cgi
> 
> 
> I got NOT FOUND: The requested URL /cgi-bin/asteriskvmail.cgi was not found 
> on this server
> 

Sorry, my typo:

http://yourhost/cgi-bin/asterisk/vmail.cgi

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