Installing FreePBX 13 on Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS

Initial System Setup

When installing the machine, at package selection make sure you pick - at least - 'OpenSSH Server', and 'LAMP Packages'. This installs the base packages required.

MySQL Password

After selecting 'Continue' you will be prompted (several times) for a root password. There is no need to set one, and setting one is discouraged! As part of the FreePBX install, a secure (128 bit) password is generated, and used to lock down MySQL. If you set a password now, it is not possible for the installer to secure your database. Please just push 'enter' when prompted for a password.

Unlock and configure your root password.

You may find it helpful to log in directly as root to manage and update your system. We recommend you do set a root password, and enable SSH logins from root, so you don't need to go through secondary steps that may cause problems. This command enables SSH root logins, and prompts you for a new root password.

sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin without-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/sshd/sshd_config
service ssh restart
sudo passwd root

Switch to the Root User

THIS IS IMPORTANT! You must run the entire process as root. Attempting to use 'sudo' later on will not work. Please don't ignore this. You must run this command to switch to an interactive root shell.

sudo -i

Update Your System

apt-get update && 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 php5-gd curl sox\
  libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient-dev mpg123 libxml2-dev libnewt-dev sqlite3\
  libsqlite3-dev pkg-config automake libtool autoconf git unixodbc-dev uuid uuid-dev\
  libasound2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libical-dev libneon27-dev libsrtp0-dev\
  libspandsp-dev libmyodbc

Reboot server

reboot

After the Reboot

Ensure that you re-run 'sudo -i', or log in as the root user. As mentioned above, the entire install process must be run as 'root', and failure to do so will cause unexpected problems.

Install Legacy pear requirements

pear install Console_Getopt

Install Dependencies for Google Voice (if required)

You may skip this section if you do not require Google Voice support.

Install iksemel

cd /usr/src
wget https://iksemel.googlecode.com/files/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
tar xf iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
cd iksemel-*
./configure
make
make install

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-1.4-current.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.

If you don't have any physical PSTN hardware attached to this machine, you don't need to install DAHDI (For example, a T1 or E1 card, or a USB device). Most smaller setups will not have DAHDI hardware, and this step can be safely skipped.

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

Compile and install pjproject

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 --enable-shared --disable-sound --disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr
make dep
make
make install

Compile and Install jansson

cd /usr/src
tar vxfz jansson.tar.gz
rm -f jansson.tar.gz
cd 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-*
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
./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 already be enabled, but if you want to have MP3 support (eg, for Music on Hold), 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
update-rc.d -f asterisk remove

Install Asterisk Soundfiles.

The 'make install' above installs a standard low-quality base sound file by default. This is suitable if you are on a small, underpowered system (such as a Rasberry Pi), but on a larger system you should install higher quality soundfiles. Note that this installs the (8khz) 'wav' soundfiles and G722 (High Definition 'Wideband') audio.

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-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
rm -f 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

Install and Configure FreePBX

Create the Asterisk user and set base file 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
sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
service apache2 restart

Configure ODBC

Edit /etc/odbcinst.ini and add the following. Note that this command assumes you are installing to a new machine, and that the file is empty. If this is not a freshly installed machine, please manually verify the contents of the file, rather than just copying and pasting the lines below. The 'EOF' does no go in the file, it simply signals to the 'cat' command that you have finished pasting.

cat >> /etc/odbcinst.ini << EOF
[MySQL]
Description = ODBC for MySQL
Driver = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libmyodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/libodbcmyS.so
FileUsage = 1
 
EOF

You may need to verify these paths, if you're not on a x86_64 machine. You can use the command `find / -name libmyodbc.so` to verify the location
Edit or create /etc/odbc.ini and add the following section. Note that, again, this command assumes you are installing to a new machine, and the file is empty. Please manually verify the contents of the files if this is not the case.

cat >> /etc/odbc.ini << EOF
[MySQL-asteriskcdrdb]
Description=MySQL connection to 'asteriskcdrdb' database
driver=MySQL
server=localhost
database=asteriskcdrdb
Port=3306
Socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
option=3
 
EOF

Download and install FreePBX.

cd /usr/src
wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
tar vxfz 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!

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