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Monday, June 05, 2006

TrixBox Dynamic UI v2.1



Asterisk@Home v2.8 and now TrixBox v1.0 have arrived, and we thought it high time we update things to auto-detect TrixBox v1.x! We think you'll like the improvements, our friends and clients did!

As before, no configuration or editing necessary, just drop into place and it does the rest. Additionally, it has been written to accomodate new additions and web services as TrixBox & 3rd-Party projects continue to evolve.


What's New:
  • TrixBox v1.0 support!

  • Logo changes for TrixBox installations

  • Forums change for TrixBox installations

  • System Management button directs to the TrixBox maintenance screen (then FreePBX from there) for TrixBox installations

  • Cleaner install, only PHP's in root (the rest in a 'welcome' directory)

  • Default install has an end-user menu enabled (you can disable of course!)

  • Supports components up to the AAH v2.8 & TrixBox v1.0 releases
    • Installation:

    Instructions from the linux command prompt on your Asterisk box:

    1) (login of course)
    2) cd /var/www/html
    3) mv index.php index-old.php (keep a backup in case you want to revert!)
    4) wget http://www.kennonsoft.org/projects/trixbox/admin-ui-21.tgz
    5) tar -xzf admin-ui-21.tgz
    6) rm admin-ui-21.tgz
    7) chmod 777 welcome/index.dat
    That's All Folks!

    Otherwise, please see the Asterisk@Home Dynamic UI v2.0 article (click left side or scroll below) for all other usage and feature details!

    Have fun, gang ...




    After TrixBox Updating, Menu Disappears!

    After running "trixbox-update.sh update" you will find often that the old menu has returned. The correction for this is a very simple adjustment & you don't lose any of your previous Dynamic Menu settings!

    1) (login of course)
    2) cd /var/www/html
    3) rm index-old.php (in case you have done this before!)
    4) mv index.php index-old.php
    5) wget http://www.kennonsoft.org/projects/trixbox/index.php
    That's it! You're back in business.

    Restoring the Original Menu (we can't imagine why?! )

    We can't imagine why you would want to do this , however in the case where you need to here's what you do:

    1) (login of course)
    2) cd /var/www/html
    3) rm index.php
    4) mv index-old.php index.php
    That's it! The original Trixbox menu is back.

    posted by Kennon Software at 12:58 PM | 31 comments


    Hi I apologise in advance for double posting as i have posted this in the trixbox forumn as well:-

    Hi,

    I have just downloaded but get the following errors when uncompressing:-

    tar : this does not look like a tar archive
    tar : skipping to next header
    tar : archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
    tar : read 2060 bytes from admin-ui-21.tgz
    tar : error exit delayed from previous errors

    Centos fully patched and so is freepbx

    TIA

    Derek

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/05/2006 3:26 PM 

    Typo on our part, sorry about that. It has now been fixed. One wrong character on line (5) in the tar command switches.

    Should be good to go now!

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/05/2006 3:32 PM 

    Im looking at the TB 1.0 UI. What are the names and or program/modules installed in order for the 12 icons to appear? Just installed TB 1.0 where do I go from here to get 12 icons?

    Newbie...
    Thank you for your time...

    posted by Blogger antinobellini
    on 6/06/2006 2:05 AM 

    Actually just follow the steps and rather than add more links into FreePBX (which is already getting overloaded and confusing) it replaces the TrixBox blue/grey welcome menu (that eventually leads you to FreePBX).

    The goal was to match the UI of FreePBX but create an easier/cleaner/less-confusing interface for the major 3rd-party products and most importantly to allow you to customize an End-User menu with only the key items your users will need most often on a day-to-day basis (without overloading/confusing them with all the FreePBX items and complex Admin security setup, etc.).

    Net Result, just follow the steps and point your web browser at your TrixBox IP address -- and viola!

    Have fun!

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/06/2006 9:40 AM 

    Works like a charm, thanks!

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/06/2006 1:56 PM 

    I installed the UI for trixbox and I want to add the other two programs that are found on this image >> http://kennonsoft.org/images/aah-admin-21.jpg they are the two programs in between "menu-config" and "webmin" on the bottom row. I believe its a phonebook and ??? Where can I find more info on installing these 2 items?

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/09/2006 12:44 AM 

    Hello,

    I just installed this great ap per your instructions, but my admin pwd is not working now. I have reset:

    passwd-amp
    passwd-maint
    passwd admin

    All with no luck. What have I missed? Can you email the answer to me at rquick@thcs.org?

    Thanks for the great app! It looks terrific if I can just get back in.

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/09/2006 7:58 AM 

    ANSWERS
    =======

    1) To the post regarding the extra two applications, they are creations of http://www.nerdvittles.com/ -- check there in their Asterisk@Home v2.8 and earlier posts on how to add them to your installation (should be essentially the same for TrixBox).

    2) As for setting end-user password -- once you enter the admin menu you will notice at the bottom a button to configure the end-user menu. One of the fields there is the "password" field that allows you to set it.

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/09/2006 9:36 AM 

    >Hello,
    >
    >I just installed this great ap >per your instructions, but my >admin pwd is not working now. I >have reset:
    >
    >passwd-amp
    >passwd-maint
    >passwd admin
    >
    >All with no luck. What have I >missed? Can you email the answer >to me at rquick@thcs.org?
    >
    >Thanks for the great app! It >looks terrific if I can just get >back in.

    I have the same problem. I also cannot seem to login using any of the username/password combinations (passwd-amp,passwd-maint,passwd admin). Please note that before applying the Dynamic UI, there was a note under FreePBX/Administrators GUI:

    NOTE: AUTHTYPE is not set to 'database' in /etc/amportal.conf - Module crippled.

    Does this affect the Dynamic UI. If so, what username/password combination does it use? AMPDBUSER/AMPDBPASS? Thanks

    posted by Blogger nyook
    on 6/13/2006 11:02 PM 

    The previous user simply did not check the full article under v2.0 which explained the default password was originally "password".

    However, the current file on our site no longer has the password set by default, so there shouldn't be any trouble. Maybe download it again?

    Also for reference, our password is set/maintained independently via the "Menu Config" button in the full Administration web menu of Dynamic Menu.

    Hope that helps!

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/14/2006 8:19 AM 

    I just installed your interface. It is great, but I have one problem. When I try to load it, it takes around 30 seconds for the main page to come up as well as if I click on "administration". If I go to Http://fqdn/maint, it loads up very fast. Any ideas?

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/16/2006 12:43 AM 

    Yes & no. For some reason there are select installations (very few that we have heard of, only one that we witnessed) that have the delay. It occurs when the server uses the PHP command to see if the Webmin application is possibly running at the specified Http URL and port. On most systems this will return almost instantly if nothing is there, however on some the timeout takes forever.

    We are going to add an easy checkbox to disable the Webmin detection in the end-user config menu for those having this issue. Should be online in the next day or so.

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/19/2006 9:29 AM 

    Hello,
    I installed your UI to my trixbox and I very like it. one thing I want to know, can you do multi-language support UI for new v2.1

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/21/2006 9:35 AM 

    Thank you for the suggestion. Actually we are entertaining upgrading the menu to allow custom buttons and multi-language support. Keep an eye out, it could happen sooner than later!

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/22/2006 9:03 AM 

    Hi Guys,

    Is there a chance you can have a full size image of http://www.kennonsoft.org/2006/06/images/aah-admin-21.jpg

    as well as the small thumbnail on the site?

    My other question is please can you have an option somewhere so that rather than having "Black on White" as the main menu is at the moment that you can have "White on Black". This would make things a lot easier for a number of our users who use a "dark" setup for their pc's.

    Great job as ever!

    posted by Anonymous Ben
    on 6/24/2006 10:59 AM 

    I installed admin-ui-2.1.tgz, but when i type the IP of my trixbox machine. i get only one image on the screen. The image of voicemail (in the middle) and recordings. if i click on that i go to some vmail.cgi script which is not there in my pc and if i click on administration link (right corner) i come back to the same page. kindly help :(

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 8/24/2006 9:37 PM 

    Does this work with Trixbox version 1.2?

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 9/12/2006 1:40 PM 

    It should, we will be confirming that ourselves shortly!

    ksDevGuy

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 9/12/2006 7:14 PM 

    I just finished most of the setup on this page with a fresh Trixbox 2.1 .ISO and everything works as it says. Even the update script workaround :)

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 9/27/2006 2:18 PM 

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    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 11/20/2006 1:40 AM 

    If its ok to post for others to share, I have created 8 additional icons and a modified index.php that jumps driectly to most of the main admin points in the various tribox menus. Its built ontop of admin-ui 2.1

    1) (login of course)
    2) cd /var/www/html
    3) mv index.php index-old.php
    4) wget http://www.nutts.com/QuickDownloads/modified-admin-ui-2.tar
    5) tar -xvf modified-admin-ui-2.tar
    6) rm modified-admin-ui-2.tar
    7) chmod 777 welcome/index.dat

    posted by Anonymous Ted
    on 12/20/2006 3:28 PM 

    Are you going to support "trixbox 2.0"?

    I really like your GUI and I want to install this on my box. Thanks!

    posted by Blogger [Art]
    on 3/15/2007 5:23 PM 

    Any Idea how to get to the Endpoint Manager in Trixbox 2.0 after switching to the Dymanic UI?

    posted by Anonymous Carlos Gonzales
    on 3/22/2007 7:36 AM 

    Any Idea how to get to the Endpoint Manager in Trixbox 2.0 after switching to the Dymanic UI?

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 3/22/2007 7:37 AM 

    Yes! We will be supporting TrixBox v2.0+ with an updated UI that will give more control and bypass the tracking/performance issues since Fonality tookover things.

    Just haven't been able to finish the code we have -- soon, we promise!

    As for the question about the endpoint manager: http://xx.xx.xx.xx/maint/endpointcfg.php

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 3/22/2007 12:13 PM 

    We loved your interface so much -- and were disappointed that the Trixbox didn't incorporate -- we decided to roll our own distro using your software as the entryway into the various software products.

    You can check it out at www.adminsparadise.com

    Reasons we switched..
    We didn't want to have to register..
    We wanted a better gui..
    We wanted scheduled conferencing, roaming users, delegated administration, and web based faxing... and we wanted to run on asterisk 1.4

    PS -- a slightly modified version of the code is used to for the server management

    Kudos to the excellent code -- we won't let it go away!

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 4/05/2007 8:19 AM 

    >Hello,
    >
    >I just installed this great ap
    >per your instructions, but my
    >admin pwd is not working now. I
    >have reset:
    >
    >passwd-amp
    >passwd-maint
    >passwd admin
    >
    >All with no luck. What have I
    >missed? Can you email the answer
    >to me at rquick@thcs.org?
    >
    >Thanks for the great app! It >looks terrific if I can just get >back in.

    >I have the same problem. I also >cannot seem to login using any of >the username/password combinations >(passwd-amp,passwd-maint,passwd >admin).

    Hi,
    I had the same problem but after your replay

    >the default password was >originally "password".

    and

    >Also for reference, our password >is set/maintained independently >via the "Menu Config" button in >the full Administration web menu >of Dynamic Menu.

    I have fixed the problem and changed the password (this was made on late Friday evening).
    Next Monday the password was vanished form my mind.:-((.
    Where the password is set?
    Can you help me?

    Thanks

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 6/07/2007 5:50 AM 

    It is one of the comma seperated values in index.dat.

    ksDevGuy

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 6/07/2007 8:23 AM 

    Hi All,
    Coul you please guide me how to login after installing?

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 8/14/2008 2:19 AM 

    Does this not work on ver 1.4 asterisk? After installing I can't get to the admin section. You click on the admin button it goes nowhere.

    posted by Anonymous Anonymous
    on 12/18/2008 10:19 PM 

    Yes it works fine with Asterisk v1.4 (e.g. PBXinaFlash v1.2 & v1.3).

    I guess the question is what release of TrixBox (or other distro) you are trying to install it to?

    Originally, we designed & tested only through Trixbox v1.x (which they have long since passed). Due to personal opinions about what Fonality has done to the Trixbox community, we stopped supporting it and instead rewrote our menu for PBXinaFlash (please see our v3.0 release on the site) which we feel is staying truer to the original intent of the pre-Fonality Asterisk@Home/Trixbox community's direction/needs/spirit.

    posted by Blogger Kennon Software
    on 12/19/2008 8:50 AM 


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