Installing FreePBX 13 on CentOS 6
- Nathaniel Halbrooks
READ FIRST
Manual installations of FreePBX is considered an EXPERTS ONLY exercise. This method of installation is enough to get CORE functionality of FreePBX. Non-commercial modules may not function as expected or detailed in the Wiki's. Certain modules and features may require additional software to be installed and configured on the server.
**** COMMERCIAL MODULES NOT SUPPORTED See How to Purchase FreePBX Commercial Modules****
Install CentOS 6
- 2 Install CentOS 6
- 2.1 Initial System Setup
- 2.1.1 Disable selinux
- 2.1.2 Update Your System
- 2.1.3 Install Additional Required Dependencies
- 2.1.4 IPTables
- 2.1.5 Auto Start MySQL
- 2.1.6 Auto Start Apache
- 2.1.7 Install PearDB
- 2.1.8 Reboot server
- 2.2 Install Dependencies for Google Voice (If needed/wanted)
- 2.2.1 Install iksemel
- 2.3 Add the Asterisk User
- 2.4 Install and Configure Asterisk
- 2.5 Compile and install pjproject
- 2.6 Compile and Install jansson
- 2.7 Compile and install SpanDSP
- 2.8 Compile and install Asterisk
- 2.9 Install Asterisk-Extra-Sounds
- 2.10 Install and Configure FreePBX
- 2.11 That's it!
- 2.1 Initial System Setup
Initial System Setup
You MUST run all of these commands as the root user!
You MUST disable selinux. selinux can cause strange behavior during the install
Disable selinux
In /etc/sysconfig/selinux , change the following lines:
sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/sysconfig/selinux |
reboot, and verify the selinux status by running 'sestatus'. It should say:
SELinux status: disabled |
SELinux did not disable!
Generally /etc/sysconfig/selinux is linked to /etc/selinux/config but in some cases they are separate files. If the above steps do not disable selinux you will need to perform one extra step:sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config
Update Your System
yum -y update
yum -y groupinstall core base "Development Tools" |
Install Additional Required Dependencies
yum install gcc gcc-c++ lynx bison mysql-devel mysql-server php php-mysql php-pear php-mbstring php-xml tftp-server httpd make ncurses-devel libtermcap-devel sendmail sendmail-cf caching-nameserver sox newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel audiofile-devel gtk2-devel subversion kernel-devel git subversion kernel-devel php-process crontabs cronie cronie-anacron wget vim php-xml uuid-devel libtool sqlite-devel unixODBC mysql-connector-odbc libuuid-devel binutils-devel php-ldap |
IPTables
Keeping IPTables turned off indefinitely is strongly discouraged. You will incur the wrath of high fees and hackers
You must disable the default iptables. You can re-enable it later, once you have made the appropriate changes. Information on iptables can be found with a quick Google search. If iptables is left running, it will (at very least) block you from accessing the web interface.
See the current status:
chkconfig iptables --list |
Disable iptables:
chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off |
Stop the service (this skips rebooting again):
service iptables stop |
Auto Start MySQL
You must have mysql running for freepbx to operate normally. You need to set it to start at boot time. with the following command:
chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on |
Then start mysqld if you don't plan on rebooting during the installation phase:
service mysqld start |
Auto Start Apache
You will want Apache running, so you can access the FreePBX admin interface, You need to set it to start at boot time. with the following command:
chkconfig --level 345 httpd on |
Then start apache if you don't plan on rebooting during the installation phase:
service httpd start |
Install PearDB
pear channel-update pear.php.net
pear install db-1.7.14 |
You may receive a warning:
WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2"
At this time it is safe to ignore that message
Reboot server
reboot |
Install Dependencies for Google Voice (If needed/wanted)
Install iksemel
cd /usr/src
wget https://iksemel.googlecode.com/files/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
tar xf iksemel-*.tar.gz
cd iksemel-*
./configure
make
make install |
Add the Asterisk User
adduser asterisk -m -c "Asterisk User" |
Install and Configure Asterisk
Download Asterisk source files.
cd /usr/src
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux-complete/dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/libpri-current.tar.gz
wget http://soft-switch.org/downloads/spandsp/spandsp-0.0.6.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
wget -O jansson.tar.gz https://github.com/akheron/jansson/archive/v2.7.tar.gz
wget http://www.pjsip.org/release/2.4/pjproject-2.4.tar.bz2 |
Compile and install DAHDI and LibPRI
If you don't have any physical hardware you don't need to run these commands, however, it is still suggested to compile the modules, to allow you to add hardware later.
cd /usr/src
tar xvfz dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz
tar xvfz libpri-current.tar.gz
rm -f dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz libpri-current.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-complete-*
make all
make install
make config
cd /usr/src/libpri-*
make
make install |
Compile and install pjproject
If you are doing this on a 32 bit system, please note that you MUST set the following during configure:
--libdir=/usr/lib
cd /usr/src
tar -xjvf pjproject-2.4.tar.bz2
rm -f pjproject-2.4.tar.bz2
cd pjproject-2.4
CFLAGS='-DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-sound \
--disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr --libdir=/usr/lib64
make dep
make
make install |
Compile and Install jansson
If you are doing this on a 32 bit system, please note that you MUST set the following during configure: --libdir=/usr/lib
cd /usr/src
tar vxfz jansson.tar.gz
rm -f jansson.tar.gz
cd jansson-*
autoreconf -i
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
make install |
Compile and install SpanDSP
If you are doing this on a 32 bit system, please note that you MUST set the following during configure: --libdir=/usr/lib
SpanDSP
cd /usr/src
tar -xzf spandsp-0.0.6.tar.gz
cd spandsp-0.0.6
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
make install |
Compile and install Asterisk
If you are doing this on a 32 bit system, please note that you MUST set the following during configure: --libdir=/usr/lib
cd /usr/src
tar xvfz asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
cd asterisk-*
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
make menuselect |
You will be prompted at the point to pick which modules to build. Most of them will be enabled, but if you want to have MP3 support, you need to manually turn on 'format_mp3' on the first page.
After selecting 'Save & Exit' you can then continue
make
make install
make config
ldconfig |
Install Asterisk-Extra-Sounds
Note that this installs the (8khz) 'wav' soundfiles and G722 (High Definition 'Wideband') audio.
mkdir -p /var/lib/asterisk/sounds
cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
tar xvf asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
# Wideband Audio download
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz |
Set ownership permissions
If you are doing this on a 32 bit system, please note that you MUST set the following during configure: chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk
chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib64/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /var/www/ |
A few small modifications to Apache.
sed -i 's/\(^upload_max_filesize = \).*/\120M/' /etc/php.ini
sed -i 's/^\(User\|Group\).*/\1 asterisk/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
service httpd restart |
Install and Configure FreePBX
Download and extract FreePBX.
cd /usr/src
wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
tar xfz freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
rm -f freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
cd freepbx
./start_asterisk start
./install -n |
That's it!
You can now start using FreePBX. Open up your web browser and connect to the IP address or hostname of your new FreePBX server. You will see the Admin setup page, which is where you set your 'admin' account password, and configure an email address to receive update notifications.
We hope you enjoy using FreePBX 13!
Install and Setup Commercial Modules
[Optional] Additional Installation Steps
If you wish to use Commercial Modules you will need to perform the additional steps below.
Enable the FreePBX Commercial yum repos
wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ -N http://yum.schmoozecom.net/schmooze-commercial/schmooze-commercial.repo |
yum clean all to clean out yum cache so it will find out new RPMs
yum clean all |
yum install needed RPMs for Commercial Modules
yum -y install php-5.3-zend-guard-loader sysadmin fail2ban incron ImageMagick |
Ensure you have the right mirrors to download and obtain commercial modules
/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx_setting MODULE_REPO http://mirror1.freepbx.org,http://mirror2.freepbx.org |
Restart Apache and Install Sysadmin
service httpd restart
fwconsole ma download sysadmin
fwconsole ma install sysadmin |