My trials of installing FreePBX

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?

A Former User

@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

A Former User

@Hubtech said:

@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

Run it and see what happens. It does specifically install Asterisk 11 though. 13 is the current.

Dashrender

@Hubtech said:

@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

from a new install, download that script and where ever you put it type ./freepbx-install.sh assuming you named the file that.

Danp

Found a newer version: https://gist.github.com/monobilisim/6f0502c0232d9bf245fb

Dashrender

@Danp said:

Found a newer version: https://gist.github.com/monobilisim/6f0502c0232d9bf245fb

OK just re-imaged one of my other C@C servers and am running this script now.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender just wiped my C@C install to try this. We'll see if anything distracts me before I get done.

JaredBusch

well i would be starting on this is it ever finished reimaging...

hah, and it completed ... now on to the setup.

Dashrender

I've already been distracted by my google voice problem.

JaredBusch

Okay, All kinds of problems with that script.

I've cloned the git repo and will work on it.

This is why you had so many problems.

I've been wanting to spin up FreePBX anyway.