Tutorial on how to Install Apache, Subversion and Trac with Virtual Hosting suppor in Ubuntu Linux

We recently had to setup Apache, Subversion and Trac all within a virtual hosting environment for one of our Clients to be able to develop easily and effictively among team members. They wanted to use multiple domain names for separate projects. Made sense to us, so we started looking for instructions on setting this up. We wanted to setup LigHTTPD, however it’s not nearly as easy because of no svn-dav module available, so we stuck with Apache 2 for now....

November 2, 2008 · 5 min · 941 words · Matt G

Howto Setup Emergency Queues with Separate Outbound PRI channel using FreePBX and Ring Groups.

One of our clients recently had a question about his system using FreePBX 2.5.1 and Asterisk 1.4 regarding using specific lines to reach staff. He runs a support queue for his company. During the day he has a regular IVR with Call queues enabled to handle customer calls and direct them to the appropriate staff member to deal with customer inquiries etc. After hours the menu functions the same way, however there are less staff to answer the phones so mainly the emergency extension is the only one being monitored, for – well, emergencies!...

October 31, 2008 · 5 min · 870 words · Matt G

Installing and Configuring chan_mobile for Bluetooth Presence support in Asterisk 1.6

Following this tutorial on how to get Chan_Mobile working with Asterisk for Bluetooth support for our headsets and mobile phones we worked out how to get it working on Asterisk 1.6. We figured we would share this information with our readers incase they were interested in Bluetooth for Asterisk and the capabilities it will open up to their system. Just think, the server will know when you’re in the room or out of the office and other fancy things....

October 31, 2008 · 13 min · 2612 words · Matt G

Installing Habari Blog on Ubuntu Server to Replace WordPress

You may have heard of Habari, you may not have. It’s yet another blogging software, written from the ground up to take advantage of all the latest technologies available. For this reason it’s not supported everywhere and probably is why you haven’t heard of it yet. I think this software could replace WordPress if done correctly, it will just take some time to get a little more robust, but the guts of it is definately there....

October 29, 2008 · 3 min · 569 words · Matt G

Enable SNMP on your Cisco Routers to watch SIP and other traffic

It’s pretty easy, just ssh (or telnet if you’re crazy) to your router and do this: # en # conf t # snmp-server community YOUR.SNMP.COMMUNITY ro # access-list 60 permit IP.OF.SNMP.DAEMON # snmp-server host IP.OF.SNMP.DAEMON YOUR.SNMP.COMMUNITY # snmp-server enable traps Now your favourite graphing software should be able to collect all the data you need.

October 28, 2008 · 1 min · 55 words · Matt G