Editing Configuration Files

The Asterisk configuration files are in the /etc/asterisk directory.

Note that the FreePBX web based configuration program stores configuration information in a separate database and then applies that information by recreating most of the configuration files.

This means that if you manually edit a file such as /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf and reload the configuration files, your changes will take effect. However, if you use FreePBX to modify information that is stored in the /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf file and then apply the changes, the /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf will be overwritten with the FreePBX database information and your changes will be lost.

For that reason, you should make all of your changes to the custom configuration files that are included in the dialplan. For example the file /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf is provided for this purpose.

XIPAR stores much of the radio related configuration information in files named using the format /etc/asterisk/xxxx_rpt_custom.conf where xxxx is the name of the primary file.

Review the Asterisk dialplan concepts so you know how to read a dialplan to place your changes in the proper context.

The XIPAR web interface has a built-in configuration file editor. Browse to your XIPAR server home page, select the "Asterisk" tab and then the "Configuration Editor" sub-tab.