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Did you know that NEC’s latest voice mail platforms like the IM16-LX for the 2000 IPS or the EliteMail LX for the IPKII run on a Red Hat version of Linux?

So it didn’t come to any surprise that the web administration interface is provided through a version of the Apache web server. http://www.apache.org/

Interestingly, I was a little surprised that NEC didn’t document how to change the listening port for the installing and maintaining technicians out there.

By default, the system uses the basic defaults:

http = tcp port 80
https = tcp port 443

This is all fine and dandy, but what if your customer wants to allow you or it’s staff the ability to remotely access the web app? No problem, just point these ports on your customers WAN router to the internal static IP address of the voicemail card right? Oh, wait…but what if your customer is hosting their own web server already? We can’t conflict with that.

Simple solution. Change the listening ports on the Apache install on your voice mail system.

First, connect with WinSCP not Putty. You can use the vi utility from the command line but some Elitemail systems don’t seem to have text editors like vi, vim, ed, etc.

It’s also a lot easier to use the built in text edior of WinSCP. Once connected…

Navigate to the Apache configuration file httpd.conf.

The default location is: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Right click on the file and select Edit.

Scroll down to the first line that reads:

port 80
and change to
port 8080

Next, scroll a few lines down and find

Listen 80
Listen 443
and change Listen 80 to Listen 8080.
(you can change the https port 443 if you like)

Now save your changes by typing Ctrl-S or clicking the save icon.

Close the text editor and reboot the voicemail system.

Once the voicemail system is back up and running, point your browser to:

http://your-vm-ip-address:8080/admin

Fin.

**Note: At the time of writing this tip, a problem was found to occur when using the java media player to write .wav files. Apparently the SQL database refers to the default file structure and will error out if the listening port is changed. There is no promise or acknowledgment from NEC to fix this. If corrected I’ll gladly update this article.

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