Now you can describe what does "I cannot connect" means. You open the web page, it ask for extension and password and you never get in? It ask again for a password? Or it keeps saying "attempting to connect, attempt No X?"

If the former, you might have an improper fop2.cfg , maybe colliding manual users and auto configure scripts.

If the later, you might have port 4445 blocked.

Cannot be sure about anything as there was not much detail on your description of the problem!

Best regards,

Hi,

Glad you found the problem! But I beg to differ, I did not fail on telling anything... Maybe you did not read the 1st page of the user manual: http://www.fop2.com/documentation-usermanual-0.php where it states clearly that you login with your extension and voicemail password! It is also mentioned serveral times on this very same forum AND in the guide I posted in the 1st reply.

About port 843, you can close it again. It is not used by fop. It is used by flash when it tries to retrieve a policy file, but if it fails it retrieves the policy from the server it is trying to connect... so it is actually no needed and you can keep it closed.

Finally, if you want to restrict users to certain actions, you will have to do some manual configuration as described also in the documentation (http://www.fop2.com/documentation-confi ... ermissions) because the automatic config generator grants the "all" permission to every user. You can also tweak that script, it is not *that* hard to understand. I did some modifications to retrive the fop2 permissions from the voicemail options as defined in freepbx, but it is not good/flexible enough.

One easy way to do it is to run the script by hand:

./autoconfig-users-freepbx.sh

then copy & paste its output at the end of fop2.cfg and comment out the #exec line by adding a semicolon at the front... Then just modify the permissions as you see fit. Finally restart fop2.

I will write a freepbx module for managing users, permisions et all in the near future.

Best regards,

Hi,

A lot of people miss something. It is a complex program, client and server, connecting to another server (asterisk). That is why there is quite a large documentation set. And because the documentation is kind of large you can miss some important parts. Many other users did not miss it, or they missed something else. And some others were great at the point of extending the functionality, posting patches like for adding importing functionality to the phonebook, or posting dialplan snippets to set presence on FOP2 via feature codes in the dialplan. The problem you were having was indeed documented on the 1st user manual page, the FAQ, the guide and several times in the forum. I have just modified the user manual trying to make it more clear for freepbx users.

The next version (due out shortly) will have a privacy aka "CEO" option for individual buttons to prevent listen,whisper,record and hangups, and another level of privacy for hiding callerids or dialed numbers. My initial development is to have a "privacy=clid,monitor,all" to set per button. And I think that I will have to also add a "god" permission for a user so you can set a super user that will be able to override button privacy settings.

About the list of extensions to show, you can do that now using panel contexts as described in the manual. But I am also thinking on how to implement it on just one panel context. All this improvements will need a nice web gui for setting that up, and hence it will take some time.

I always point to the step by step guide for installation. There was a sticky on this forum but it seems it expired, I will look at it and get it back at the top.

You can also check the FAQ that describes the problem you had and the solution, and other similar problems and proper solutions/fixes too.

For Centos 4, you need a non debugging perl as explained in the download page, you can get a centos 4 perl from here:

http://www.fop2.com/downloads/centos4/p ... 3.i386.rpm
http://www.fop2.com/downloads/centos4/p ... 3.i386.rpm

Best regards,

Is there any way to group extension in the gui without putting them in a queue ??

Thanks

group=mygroup in the button definition, it will be available on the next release.

Best regards,

RPM for perl on the second server won't instal I am getting the following

[root@voip2 src]# rpm -ivh perl-5.8.5-36.3.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package perl-5.8.5-49.el4 (which is newer than perl-5.8.5-36.3) is already installed
file /usr/bin/a2p from install of perl-5.8.5-36.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-49.el4

....[snip]...
so I take it its already installed ??? I am not really good a linux.

Seems like you have a newer perl than the RPM I made. FOP2 will only run with a non debugging perl and Centos4 provides a debugging perl. You will have to recompile perl OR You can also try to force install the rpm, making actually a downgrade (just add --force to the rpm command). But that might break something else on your perl install as you have a newer version (I do not think it will break anything, but I am not responsible if it does.. anyways you can always update perl again...)

Best regards,

Did you verify that fop2_server is indeed running?

pgrep fop2_server 

Can you telnet to port 4445 from your browser machine to the fop2 server machine? Are you running FOP1 in that server too? If you are also running FOP1, change its listening port and restart FOP1. Be sure that FOP2 is configured to port 4445, be sure that port 4445 is not blocked by iptables or firewalls in the middle, the telnet test should give you a hint.

Another potential issue is if you use foreign characters in the button labels and the button file is not saved as utf8.

Best regards,

I think we covered every possible cause in this super long thread. I asume you have the latest flash player installed right? You might want to try with different browsers/platforms. Sometimes the flash player is broken on one browser and working in another.

I am also sure that it would take me much less time to fix the issue myself by logging into your machine than the time it takes to write all of these posts! Try to catch me via the live help tomorrow... if you can give me ssh access to the machine I will be able to at least test the install and probably make it work in a few minutes.

Best regards,

Just for other users to benefit. In this particular case, FOP1 was still running and listenting on port 4445. If you cannot connect you have to verify:

1) That FOP1 is not running or listening to some other port besides 4445

2) That FOP2 is started and running

You can verify the ports opened with "netstat -nta"

Starting fop2 as a service will say OK, but if it cannot bind to port 4445 because is in use by some other program it will silently fail. You can verify that by runing fop2 from the command line:

cd /usr/local/fop2
./fop2_server -X 15

3) if you use https you might have issues with fop2 client connections. Try to use http

4) Last but not least, if you use manual configurations and use non ascii characters in button labels, you MUST save the config files as UTF8.

And I forgot! You have to login with an extension and voicemail password if you use freepbx automatic config. You can check what users are available by running autoconfig-users-freepbx.sh by hand and reading the output.

Regards,