asterisk users - Oct 2007 - Exposing sound files through http for links

Hi. I'd like for my sound files to be exposed through http.
You know, the ones located in var/lib/asterisk/sounds.

This is probably an apache thing i'd have to configure or is
accessible through some asterisk http routing?
1. how one would configure this?
2. what are the security costs of doing this to asterisk?


- Dominic

If you are worried about it affecting asterisk, you could copy them to another
web server.

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"Dominic Son" <dominicson at gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I'd like for my sound files to be exposed through http.
> You know, the ones located in var/lib/asterisk/sounds.
>
> This is probably an apache thing i'd have to configure or is
> accessible through some asterisk http routing?
> 1. how one would configure this?
> 2. what are the security costs of doing this to asterisk?
>
>
> - Dominic
>
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On 10/11/07, Dominic Son wrote:
> Hi. I'd like for my sound files to be exposed through http.
> You know, the ones located in var/lib/asterisk/sounds.
>
> This is probably an apache thing i'd have to configure or is
> accessible through some asterisk http routing?
> 1. how one would configure this?
> 2. what are the security costs of doing this to asterisk?
 assuming you are using apache to do this, change
 the  ServerRoot  directive   in your   httpd.conf
 which can in   /etc/httpd/conf/   for a Centos install.

 alternately you can just create a link, eg if apache root
 is    /home/son/www

 create a link to sounds

   ln -s  /var/lib/asterisk/sounds  /home/son/www/sounds

 then pointing your browser to   http://localhost/sounds
 should list everything in the sounds directory.

 I don't know how much of a security risk this is. If you
 don't need to expose the entire directory for listing
 but only files on a selective basis then throw in an
 index.html into the sounds directory with "hello world"
 in it, now files can still be accessed by someone with
 a link to a specific file but no fishin around.

 -baji.

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