installingFreepbx
Installing FreePBX and Asterisk on Ubuntu Server Intrepid
Preparing to install, things to do first
Install Intrepid server as usual. Mark LAMP when installing the services. This will add Apache, MySQL and PHP5. Log in the server and access the super user account by issuing
sudo su
If you want to be sure about MySQL and PHP do this
apt-get install php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
You may need to set up apache appropriately, at the least be sure php5 is enabled. In Intrepid Ibex this is not needed:
a2enmod php5
For the localization to work properly you may have to edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and modify as follow (leny/sid):
; PHP's built-in default is text/html default_mimetype = "text/html" ;default_charset = "ISO-8859-1" default_charset = "utf8";
Adding the last line forces the default charset for php pages (override apache charset) to be utf8.
From http://www.freepbx.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuServer >I had the problem with others i18n php websites too and this modification works fine for all of them
other Php.ini settings you should change to make FreePBX happy.
; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data. magic_quotes_gpc = Off ;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level memory_limit = 100M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
Install Asterisk
apt-get install asterisk asterisk-mysql asterisk-mp3 php-db php5-gd php-pear sox curl
There is no reason to install zaptel if you are using kernel 2.6 or above as it will provide the timing device unless of course you are using zaptel hardware. Ztdummy is no longer necessary.
I am installing these also, sounds and prompts in spanish
apt-get install asterisk-prompt-es asterisk-sounds-extra
There are two approaches to solve the permissions problem, one is to add the asterisk group to the user www-data default in apache.
adduser www-data asterisk
With this approach, FreePBX gives an error copying /usr/share/asterisk/bin/agi-bin.
The other one is to edit the /etc/apache2/envvars file and change apache's user to asterisk. I tested this one and it works.
#export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data #export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data export APACHE_RUN_USER=asterisk export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=asterisk
If you changed from approach 1 to approach 2, you should delete the session files in /var/lib/php5 or change ownership to asterisk
Reload apache
apache2ctl graceful
To make the FOP server start, I changed the default shell for the user asterisk that was set to false:
usermod -s /bin/bash asterisk
In /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk I changed the variable BACKGROUND which is in 0 to 1
Installing FreePBX
Download freepbx from http://www.freepbx.org
cd /tmp wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.5.1.tar.gz cd /usr/src tar xvfz /tmp/freepbx-2.5.1.tar.gz cd freepbx-2.5.1
Prepare database:
mysqladmin create asterisk mysqladmin create asteriskcdrdb mysql asterisk < SQL/newinstall.sql mysql asteriskcdrdb < SQL/cdr_mysql_table.sql mysql GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asterisk.* TO asteriskuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'amp109'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asteriskcdrdb.* TO asteriskuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'amp109'; flush privileges; quit
Start installation of freepbx:
./install_amp
This is the only thing you should change when installing FreePBX (and the IP address it asks with xx.xx.xx.xx, of course). FreePBX will default to /var/www/html.
AMPWEBROOT=/var/www/freepbx
Warning: If you put FreePBX on a subdirectory, the panel will not work under the admin pages. Change the file /var/www/freepbx/admin/views/panel.php
// where it reads // '<iframe width="97%" height="600" frameborder="0" align="top" src="../../panel/index_amp.php?context='.$deptname.'"></iframe>'. // you should erase one step back in the uri, as it shows here '<iframe width="97%" height="600" frameborder="0" align="top" src="../panel/index_amp.php?context='.$deptname.'"></iframe>'.
If you place the web on the root
AMPWEBROOT=/var/www/
There is no need to change anything, but you can't place anything else on the web server.
In my case, after installing FreePBX Asterisk died without explanation, so after a LOT of testing I disabled two libraries that where stoping it to work. To disable a library you can add lines in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf. The autoload directive will load anything in the lib directory (/usr/lib/asterisk/modules) unless you put the line noload in the configuration file, before the global directive.
noload =>app_directory.so noload =>res_adsi.so
From http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+modules
app_directory.so => (Extension Directory)
res_adsi.so: Resource for ADSI applications. See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/ADSI
Change permissions in /usr/share/lib/asterisk
chown asterisk.asterisk -R /usr/share/asterisk
To make it start at the end of everything, edit the /etc/rc.local file before the line exit 0.
/usr/local/sbin/amportal start exit 0
note/TODO: Asterisk will start on its on after package installation. If you want to run it under safe_asterisk and managed by amportal, remove asterisk from starting on its own
There is a problem with this installation, it never asks for a password when accessing frepbx.
Other References
http://www.freepbx.org/support/documentation/installation/install-process-for-ubuntu-6-06