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Installing FreePBX 12 on Ubuntu Server 14.10

Installing FreePBX 12 on Ubuntu Server 14.10

 

 

 

Initial System Setup

When installing the machine, at package selection make sure you pick - at least - OpenSSH Server, and LAMP Server. You may install others, if wanted.

ubuntu-14.04-software-selection.png

 

Configure your root password.

sudo passwd root

Switch to the Root User

sudo -i

Update Your System

apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y 

Install Required Dependencies

apt-get install -y build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` openssh-server apache2 mysql-server\   mysql-client bison flex php5 php5-curl php5-cli php5-mysql php-pear php-db php5-gd curl sox\   libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient-dev mpg123 libxml2-dev libnewt-dev sqlite3\   libsqlite3-dev pkg-config automake libtool autoconf git subversion unixodbc-dev uuid uuid-dev\   libasound2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libical-dev libneon27-dev libsrtp0-dev\   libspandsp-dev libiksemel-dev libiksemel-utils libiksemel3   

Reboot server

This is to ensure you're running the kernel version that you're going to be building your kernel modules against. You may skip this step if you're sure your running kernel is the latest.

reboot

Install PearDB

pear uninstall db pear install db-1.7.14

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://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-13-current.tar.gz git clone https://github.com/akheron/jansson.git wget http://www.pjsip.org/release/2.2.1/pjproject-2.2.1.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

cd /usr/src tar -xjvf pjproject-2.2.1.tar.bz2 cd pjproject-2.2.1 CFLAGS='-DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-sound\   --disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr make dep make make install

Compile and Install jansson

cd /usr/src/jansson autoreconf -i ./configure make make install

Compile and install Asterisk

cd /usr/src tar xvfz asterisk-13-current.tar.gz rm -f asterisk-13-current.tar.gz cd asterisk-* ./configure 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.

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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-extra-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-extra-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

Install and Configure FreePBX

Download and extract FreePBX.

wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-12.0-latest.tgz tar vxfz freepbx-12-latest.tgz

Now create the Asterisk user and set ownership permissions.

useradd -m asterisk chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk rm -rf /var/www/html

A few small modifications to Apache.

sed -i 's/\(^upload_max_filesize = \).*/\120M/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf_orig sed -i 's/^\(User\|Group\).*/\1 asterisk/' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf service apache2 restart

Prepare MySQL

You now need to generate a secure password for FreePBX to use to talk to MySQL.

export ASTERISK_DB_PW=`dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=32 2>/dev/null | base64 - | cut -c2-18`

That will generate a quasi-random 16 character long password, which should be secure enough for most things.  If you had set the MySQL 'root' password to be something when you were installing the machine, you will need to add a -pyourpassword flag to the following lines

Configure Asterisk database in MYSQL. 

mysqladmin -u root create asterisk mysqladmin -u root create asteriskcdrdb

Set permissions on MYSQL database.

mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asterisk.* TO asteriskuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';" mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asteriskcdrdb.* TO asteriskuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';" mysql -u root -e "flush privileges;"

Restart Asterisk and install FreePBX.

./start_asterisk start ./install_amp --installdb --username=asteriskuser --password=${ASTERISK_DB_PW} amportal chown amportal a ma installall amportal a reload amportal a ma refreshsignatures amportal chown

Finally, one last mod and start FreePBX.

ln -s /var/lib/asterisk/moh /var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3 amportal restart

Start FreePBX

Navigate: 

Now FreePBX is installed, it will be available via Apache. Open up your web browser and visit:

    http://Address.Of.FreePBX.Server/admin

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