tekhead.org

After a suggestion the other day, I investigated a new(ish) VOIP server as a possible replacement for Ventrilo. Turns out its really rather good, and to make it even better, its open source and completely free, meaning it saves us £60 pa on rental fees!

The “Murmur” server itself is a bit of a pain to setup, but once you have the basic config done, it’s really easy to use. I also setup ICE on mine, for remote access, as well as a third party web management app (PHP Mumble Admin).

Finally, I used PHP Mumble Viewer to allow users to view the mumble server from the |SFH| webpage, but to get this working properly, I ended up piggy backing it via this site! The reason for this is that our mumble server runs under Windows 2003, and ICE is a pain in the arse to get working under Windows using IIS (its basically not designed to do it, only to run under Apache). I certainly wasnt about to change our IIS server for apache just to setup a VOIP viewer! Anyway, the tekhead webserver on the other hand is running Ubuntu, so all I had to do to install ICE there was do a standard package installation and a wee bit of config:

apt-get install zeroc-ice

You can see the above output here: http://www.sentfromhell.co.uk/mumble.asp

All I can suggest is, check it out: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/