Will fill in more info later, but here’s the basics so far: got this amazing free sms Gateway, playSMS. Great install instructions, such as:

playSMS Web Interface:

1.  It is important to meet all minimum requiments above

2.  Setup a system user named ‘playsms’ to manage playSMS

    # adduser playsms

    # passwd playsms

    Note: on some Linux distributions adduser and passwd combined (Debian, Ubuntu and maybe others)

3.  On most Linux distributions actions (2) will create system user and group named ‘playsms’

    with home directory /home/playsms, but you will install playSMS in different directory

4.  Create playSMS web root, spool and log and set ownership to user www-data or web server user

    # mkdir -p /var/www/playsms

    # mkdir -p /var/spool/playsms

    # mkdir -p /var/log/playsms

    # chown -R www-data /var/www/playsms

    # chown -R www-data /var/spool/playsms

    # chown -R www-data /var/log/playsms

5.  Extract playSMS package somewhere (Usually in /usr/local/src)

    # tar -zxvf playsms-x.x.x.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src

    Note: x.x.x may vary according to the package name you’ve download

6.  Copy files and directories inside ‘web’ directory to playSMS web root and set ownership again to 

    user www-data or apache web server user

    # cd /usr/local/src/playsms-x.x.x/web

    # cp -rR * /var/www/playsms

    # chown -R www-data /var/www/playsms

    Note: assumed your web server user is www-data

7.  Setup database (import database)

    # mysqladmin -u root -p create playsms

    # mysql -u root -p playsms < /usr/local/src/playsms-x.x.x/db/playsms.sql

    Note: you dont need to use MySQL root access nor this method to setup playSMS

    database, but this is beyond our scope, you should read MySQL manual’s for custom

    installation method or howto insert SQL statements into existing database

8.  Copy config-dist.php to config.php and edit config.php

    # cd /var/www/playsms

    # cp config-dist.php config.php

    # mcedit config.php

    or 

    # vi config.php

    Note: please read and fill all required fields with coutious

9.  Enter bin directory, copy playsms, playsmsd, playsmsd.php, playsmsd_start to directory default

    # cd /usr/local/src/playsms-x.x.x/bin

    # cp playsmsd playsmsd.php playsmsd_start /usr/local/bin/

    # cp playsms /etc/default/

    Note: please note the different between playsms and playsmsd

10. Look for rc.local on /etc and its subdirectories (usualy /etc, /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/init.d)

    Edit rc.local and put: 

    ”/usr/local/bin/playsmsd_start” (without quotes)

    on the bottom of the file (before exit if theres exit command). This way playsmsd_start 

    will start automatically on boot. 

    Note: you need ‘root’ access to do this

11  Browse http://localhost/playsms/ and login using default administrator user

    username: admin

    password: admin

12. At this point you should be able to login to playSMS web interface and manage playSMS