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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Accessing the FreePBX admin module


For security and functionality reasons, access to the FreePBX interface is disabled by default. If we'd like to load modules or enable features, we must enable this access.

How to do it…

  1. To install additional supported or unsupported modules, we must first enable the direct access to FreePBX in Elastix's WebGUI. To do this, go to the Security | Advanced Settings menu.

  2. Fill the options as follows:

  3. Enable direct access (Non-embedded) to FreePBX: Turn On.

  4. Database and Web Administration FreePBX Password: We set the desired password we'd like to use for the admin user.

  5. Password Confirmation: Same as above.

  6. Press Save, and a confirmation message will be displayed.

  7. Go back to the PBX | PBX Configuration menu, and at the bottom of the menus/modules section, a new link will appear: Unembedded freePBX.

  8. Click on the link mentioned above and a new page or tab (depending on the web browser we are using) will appear. This new page/tab will ask for the admin user credentials...