vicidial.org

When setting up vicidial, it asked if this server is going to be a web server, I selected 'NO'.

Now I can go to the IP/admin.php ? How is that possible if i selected no for the web install? Where is admin.php located on the machine?

(I ran the vicibox-install software)

Ok its located in /srv/www/htdocs

I chaged the dbconnect.php file to refer to my mysql server. I find it odd that the mysql did not report an error in trying to connect.

I put an echo in the php just to test that my changes were going through ok, and it seems that way.

When I try to change a user's privileges or level, it doesn't do anything.

I really need some help here, please!

Ok I used phpmyadmin to modify the user privileges.

Why is it that I can add a user, but I cannot modify their privileges?

I am using root for the database.

Looks like you botched your install when you selected NO for web server. Redo it.

You seem to understand the underlying arch. I suggest you do a scratch install and learn the system. Culture competence.

You, sir, are insane. Have you ever overhauled the engine on your car? (Culture Competence ). LOL

But a plain reinstall may help. Never fear the reinstall. You get better at it each time. Maybe after 10 or 20 you CAN overhaul (oops ... scratch install) one.

Yes, I have overhauled engines, for exactly that reason. But I bet you knew that.

Competence is like a religion to me. MacGyver /may/ have warped my mind, but he always got the girl.

(Bill and I know each other, he initially helped me learn vicidial. It's just fun.)

MacGyver was fictional. In the real world (OK, Mine!) MacGyver IS a girl. LOL

But you've got to allow that most of these "small startups" are not MacGyvers (male or female), but rather salesmen or business owners tired of paying way too freakin' much for their old proprietary or hosted systems.

So learning enough to create fire and invent a wheel is not ordinarily their first priority.

Learning enough to use an open source product that is almost "plug-n-play", that is a reachable goal. Gardo, Matt, and Kumba made that happen. So the need to overhaul is no longer present, and can lead to a "distraction" from the real goal: Making Sales.

Now: Once this Open Source project proves its worth ... learning more is useful. However, if it is running smoothly at that point (and if it is set up "by the book" it should be!), there's no reason to learn to overhaul. Easier and cheaper to have a ready spare.

And I normally don't suggest it, but this guy seems to know what he's doing. Note that he successively resolves his own issues.

I dunno, it seems like he's shooting in the dark a bit. I remember those days. Scary.