FreePBX not Requesting Login

General Help
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Hi,

I have 2 Asterisk servers in different cities. Recently, I’ve noticed when opening FreePBX on one of them, that it isn’t asking for login details. I recently changed the password for wwwadmin & maint on both servers. One server pops up asking for the username/password, but the other just goes straight into FreePBX. I’ve tried changing the password again using passwd-amp, and passwd-master, but it doesn’t seem to re-enable the password on FreePBX.

It’s not a cached password issue on IE or Firefox, as I’ve used different machines, and changed the password, and it still goes stright into FreePBX.

Where would the setting to request a password be in the config files? I couldn’t see any files in /etc/httpd/conf, /etc/httpd/conf.d or /etc/pbx that say anything about requiring a password, or there being a restricted area!

Any help, or suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks

Ben

2

Check /etc/amportal.conf and /etc/asterisk/manager.conf for the admin password. Also if you are using passwd-master then it sounds like you are using PiaF.

3

That’s an apache verification routine and is set up in the

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file

If you scan through the file you’ll find a bunch of entries kind of like this:

#Password protect /var/www/html/admin <Directory /var/www/html/admin/> AuthType Basic AuthName "Secure " AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/wwwpasswd Require user administrator director </Directory>

These are the directives that set up directory security in apache.

I’m no expert in this, but you can google “apache security” and figure something out.

I had a reverse problem several weeks ago where apache was asking for a password when it shouldn’t.

Bill

4

Thanks for the reply.

I believe the system is ConcordIAX, however it was installed by someone else, and I’ve since been asked to manage it.

I’ve checked those 2 files, amportal.conf has
AMPMGRPASS=B12e4327ec672 (Not the password I set for wwwadmin)

And manager.conf has the following:
[admin]
secret = B12e4327ec672 (The same password as above)

So there are passwords in those 2 files, although not the ones I set, and it’s not requesting login details when opening http://pbx-ip/admin

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I opened /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf but couldn’t find any reference to “/var/www/html/admin” or “AuthType”. I also opened httpd.conf on the PBX that does request login details, and couldn’t find those details either.

6

OK…

They my be in “Include files”

If you’ll scan through those files and look for “include”, there will be a reference to a file. Check to see if that code is an any of those files.

Bill

7

Hi,

Thanks for the reply again.

I found some entries similar to the above in /etc/pbx/httpdconf/pbx.conf

When I compared it to the working PBX’s pbx.conf, the section for /var/www/html/admin was missing, so I’ve copied that section into it, and restarted amportal. However, it still doesn’t request login details!

Ben

8

Try restarting httpd
(service httpd restart)

Bill/W5WAF

9

Hi,

Yep, that worked! Asks for the logon details now!

Thanks for your help!

Ben

10

Cool.

Have a good weekend and may the Easter Bunny lay lots of chocolate eggs around you!!

Bill/W5WAF