# Please help/need advise

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/please-help-need-advise/19220>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [February 15, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/please-help-need-advise/19220 "2008-02-15T15:46:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sr\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@sr\_guy](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sr_guy)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/please-help-need-advise/19220/1 "2008-02-15T15:46:21Z")

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I am pulling my hair out on this one! I installed asterisknow modules on mandriva 2008. I’m able to access CLI just fine. I’ve configured http.conf and I can access the configuration page just fine by going to:

[my](http://my) ip:8088/asterisk/static/config/cfgbasic.html

However, even after configuring manager.conf with a login and password, saving the config, and stopping/restarting asterisk I still get an invalid username/password from the above config address. Below you will find my manager.conf config. for security I’ve removed the ip info and permited ip info.

Any ideas?

;  
; AMI - The Asterisk Manager Interface  
;  
; Third party application call management support and PBX event supervision  
;  
; This configuration file is read every time someone logs in  
;  
; Use the “manager list commands” at the CLI to list available manager commands  
; and their authorization levels.  
;  
; "manager show command " will show a help text.  
;  
; ---------------------------- SECURITY NOTE -------------------------------  
; Note that you should not enable the AMI on a public IP address. If needed,  
; block this TCP port with iptables (or another FW software) and reach it  
; with IPsec, SSH, or SSL vpn tunnel. You can also make the manager  
; interface available over http if Asterisk’s http server is enabled in  
; http.conf and if both “enabled” and “webenabled” are set to yes in  
; this file. Both default to no. httptimeout provides the maximum  
; timeout in seconds before a web based session is discarded. The  
; default is 60 seconds.  
;  
[general]  
displaysystemname = yes  
enabled = yes  
webenabled = yes  
port = 5038

httptimeout = 60  
; a) httptimeout sets the Max-Age of the http cookie  
; b) httptimeout is the amount of time the webserver waits  
; on a action=waitevent request (actually its httptimeout-10)  
; c) httptimeout is also the amount of time the webserver keeps  
; a http session alive after completing a successful action

bindaddr = 0.0.0.0  
;displayconnects = yes  
;  
; Add a Unix epoch timestamp to events (not action responses)  
;  
;timestampevents = yes

[admin]  
secret = password  
deny = 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0  
permit=68.42.0.0/255.255.255.0  
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user  
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user

;  
; If the device connected via this user accepts input slowly,  
; the timeout for writes to it can be increased to keep it  
; from being disconnected (value is in milliseconds)  
;  
; writetimeout = 100  
;  
; Authorization for various classes  
;read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,config  
;write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,config