The Asterisk Web Voicemail script is used to give a graphical interface to your voicemail account, allowing you to manage and interact with your voicemail remotely from a web browser.

When you run the make webvmail command, the Asterisk Web Voicemail script will be placed into the cgi-bin/ directory of your HTTP daemon. If you have specific policies with respect to security, be aware that it uses a setuid root Perl script. This command will install only on a CentOS or Fedora box, as other distributions may have different paths to their cgi-bin/ directories. (This, of course, can be changed by editing the HTTP_CFGDIR variable in the Makefile at line 133 at the time of this writing.)