I'm using playsms 1.4 with smstools v3.1.20 on Ubuntu 16.04 with apache2, php7. I can send messages from playsms, but "my sent messages" folder is always empty, even though messages are successfully sent.
I've set the directory permission like this:
chown www-data:www-data -R /var/spool/sms
and it looks like this: ls -ltrR /var/spool/sms
/var/spool/sms:
total 28
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 2 12:44 checked
drwxrwxrwx 5 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 2 13:35 backup
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 3 20:46 failed
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 4 13:49 incoming
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 5 15:37 outgoing
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 5 15:37 sent
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 5 15:37 modem1
/var/spool/sms/checked:
total 0
/var/spool/sms/backup:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 2 20:13 failed
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 4 13:49 incoming
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 Sep 5 15:16 sent
/var/spool/sms/backup/failed:
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 205 Sep 2 20:13 out.20170902180659.0.1.5
/var/spool/sms/backup/incoming:
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 180 Sep 2 21:21 modem1.8zQs3w
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 251 Sep 2 21:21 modem1.cASf2P
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 252 Sep 4 13:49 modem1.cY8NyU
/var/spool/sms/backup/sent:
total 80
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 193 Sep 4 13:47 out.20170904114728.0.1.1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 253 Sep 4 16:32 out.20170904143202.0.1.2
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 253 Sep 5 15:16 out.20170905131603.0.1.3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 253 Sep 5 15:16 out.20170905131603.0.1.4
/var/spool/sms/failed:
total 44
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 188 Sep 2 20:38 send_Kr8jMv
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 98 Sep 2 20:45 send_mGCCDT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 97 Sep 2 20:45 send_6I691g
/var/spool/sms/incoming:
total 0
/var/spool/sms/outgoing:
total 0
/var/spool/sms/sent:
total 40
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 135 Sep 2 12:49 send_QKToY1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 136 Sep 2 13:02 send_TGGpX5
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 142 Sep 2 20:37 send_mI6lvu
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 136 Sep 2 20:47 send_kARqqi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 Sep 5 15:37 send_9Ka0VL
playsms logs doesn't show anything abnormal, no errors. Notice how the last sent message is under root user, I believe this happens because it was sent after I manually set permission to www-data and smstools is run at system startup as root.
Do you have any suggestions on what I could try to get this working correctly? it's pretty annoying not seeing the messages you've sent and their status. It's just not practical to check the logs.
I got it working by re-installing Ubuntu 16.04 server (this might or might not have been necessary, but I wanted to start fresh). Next I followed the instructions given here to install apache2, php7 and all the required modules, but i skipped installing Nginx because I don't need it.
I also skipped steps 5 and 6 because I don't use Nginx. After finishing those steps I installed smstools 3.1.21 following the instructions given here.
This got everything working like it should, folder are now populated with messages as expected.