My trials of installing FreePBX

Dashrender

Check the status of iptables and disable them for now to make setup easier. (not my idea, the instructions idea).

chkconfig iptables --list
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

It was already off (seems odd, but must be the default for C@C)

SQL setup time

chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on
service mysqld start

Output

Initializing MySQL database:  WARNING: The host 'c1107372-7807.cloudatcost.com' could not be looked up with resolveip.
This probably means that your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible
with this binary MySQL version. The MySQL daemon, mysqld, should work
normally with the exception that host name resolving will not work.
This means that you should use IP addresses instead of hostnames
when specifying MySQL privileges !
Installing MySQL system tables...
OK
Filling help tables...
OK

To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy
support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h c1107372-7807.cloudatcost.com password 'new-password'

Alternatively you can run:
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

which will also give you the option of removing the test
databases and anonymous user created by default.  This is
strongly recommended for production servers.

See the manual for more instructions.

You can start the MySQL daemon with:
cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &

You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl
cd /usr/mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl

Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script!

                                                           [  OK  ]
Starting mysqld:                                           [  OK  ]

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

Because the instructions tell me to...

There are several make commands in these setup instructions... is that compiling?

Make is used for a lot of things. But presumably. This seems fishy, though.

Dashrender

Onto Apache

chkconfig --level 345 httpd on

Output

Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for c1107372-7807.cloudatcost.com
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
                                                           [  OK  ]

Now for 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"

Output

[root@c1107372-7807 ~]# pear channel-update pear.php.net
Updating channel "pear.php.net"
Update of Channel "pear.php.net" succeeded
[root@c1107372-7807 ~]# pear install db-1.7.14
WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2"
downloading DB-1.7.14.tgz ...
Starting to download DB-1.7.14.tgz (133,103 bytes)
.............................done: 133,103 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/DB-1.7.14

I did receive the notice about pear being deprecated - shouldn't these instructions be updated to use the current software?

And now a reboot.

scottalanmiller

The package would need to be updated, not just the instructions.

Dashrender

I'm skipping the Google voice stuff - I have an old account, but I don't recall the credentials.

add Asterisk user

adduser asterisk -M -c "Asterisk User"

Download Asterisk

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-1.4-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

No problems there

Compile and install DAHDI and LibPRI

cd /usr/src
tar xvfz dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz
tar xvfz libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
rm -f dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-complete-*
make all
make install
make config
cd /usr/src/libpri-1.4.*
make
make install

Dashrender

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 --libdir=/usr/lib64
make dep
make
make install

Compile and install jansson

cd /usr/src/jansson
autoreconf -i
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
make install

Dashrender

Compile and install Asterisk

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

Now presented with what options I want to install - per the instruction the only thing I add is Format MP3

Click Save and Exit and continue with Asterisk install

make
make install
make config
ldconfig

Dashrender

Took a while but Asterisk is installed.

Installing Asterisk extra sounds

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

Dashrender

Here the second omission in the instructions. They don't tell you to change the directory before downloading FreePBX. I will include it here.

cd /usr/src
wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-12.0.3.tgz
tar vxfz freepbx-12.0.3.tgz

Change some permissions

chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib64/asterisk
mkdir /var/www/html
chown -R asterisk. /var/www/

Output

# chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk
# chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk
# chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib64/asterisk
mkdir /var/www/html
# chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk
chown: cannot access `/usr/lib/asterisk': No such file or directory
# chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib64/asterisk
# mkdir /var/www/html
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/www/html': File exists
# chown -R asterisk. /var/www/

Odd that there is no /usr/lib/asterisk - so I'll just make a mental note
the /var/www/html directory already exists - so no big deal

Dashrender

A few mods to Apache

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

Output
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for c1115759-27921.cloudatcost.com
httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]

I'm going to have to fix apache so it knows it's FQDN

Dashrender

Configure Asterisk database in MYSQL

cd /usr/src/freepbx
export ASTERISK_DB_PW=amp109
mysqladmin -u root create asterisk 
mysqladmin -u root create asteriskcdrdb

And set permissions on dbs

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;"

Start Asterisk and install FreePBX

cd /usr/src/freepbx
./start_asterisk start
./install_amp --installdb --username=asteriskuser --password=${ASTERISK_DB_PW}

Output

Checking for PEAR DB..OK
Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt..OK
Using username: asteriskuser
Using password: ******
Checking user..OK
Checking if Asterisk is running..running with PID: 11666..OK
Checking for /etc/amportal.conf../etc/amportal.conf does not exist, copying default
Creating new /etc/amportal.conf
Enter your USERNAME to connect to the 'asterisk' database:
 [asteriskuser]
Enter your PASSWORD to connect to the 'asterisk' database:
 [amp109]
Enter the hostname of the 'asterisk' database:
 [localhost]
Enter a USERNAME to connect to the Asterisk Manager interface:
 [admin]
Enter a PASSWORD to connect to the Asterisk Manager interface:
 [amp111]
Enter the path to use for your AMP web root:
 [/var/www/html]

PHP Warning:  mkdir(): File exists in /usr/src/freepbx/libfreepbx.install.php on line 197
[FATAL] Cannot create /var/www/html!

Pressing on (the following commands failed because FreePBX didn't do something right (only error noted above - according the instructions on FreePBX.org you can simply re run the install -
./install_amp --installdb --username=asteriskuser --password=${ASTERISK_DB_PW})

amportal chown
amportal a ma installall
amportal a reload
amportal a ma refreshsignatures
amportal chown

And now the system doesn't know amportal command

OK I ran the ./install_amp command again and now amportal commands are working.

Another mod for FreePBX, then we can start it

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

Add the Commercial Modules repos

cd /usr/src
wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ -N http://yum.schmoozecom.net/schmooze-commercial/schmooze-commercial.repo
yum clean all
yum -y install php-5.3-zend-guard-loader sysadmin fail2ban incron ImageMagick
service httpd restart
amportal a ma download sysadmin
amportal a ma install sysadmin

Dashrender

And now launching the web portal for the first time.

Dashrender

As you can see the system isn't setup to listen to FreePBX's .htaccess files so we have to enable the override to allow these to work.

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

find the line <Directory "/var/www/html"> then local AllowOverride about 14 lines down.
Change AllowOverride = None to AllowOverride = All

Save and quit. now reload httpd

service httpd restart

Dashrender

Awesome - that worked.

Nice clean console now..

Dashrender

Time for Server level SIP settings

Click on Settings at the top > Asterisk SIP settings

Type in your external IP address (or if the server is directly on the internet, click the Detect External IP)

Type in the range for your internal networks

Click Submit at the bottom to save the changes.

Dashrender

OK Hubtech is holding my feet to the fire on these instructions... I need some tweaks I guess.

scottalanmiller

Before doing all of this, did you try the official one line installation method?

https://gist.github.com/monobilisim/7812605

Just copy that script to your machine and run. Have not tested it personally, but it is from the vendor.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Before doing all of this, did you try the official one line installation method?

https://gist.github.com/monobilisim/7812605

Just copy that script to your machine and run. Have not tested it personally, but it is from the vendor.

That distro is OLD

FreePBX Distro 5.211.65

scottalanmiller

Maybe the script still works, though. Haven't looked through it, is it version dependent?

@scottalanmiller said:

Maybe the script still works, though. Haven't looked through it, is it version dependent?

how would one test this out. i'll give it a shot