Installing FreePBX 12 on CentOS 6.5 - How to Get Started - Documentation

Installing FreePBX 12 on CentOS 6.5 - How to Get Started - Documentation

Install Centos 6.5

• Install Centos 6.5
  • Initial System Setup
    • Disable selinux
    • Update Your System
    • Install Additional Required Dependencies
    • Add Asterisk/Digium CentOS Repos
    • IPTables
    • Auto Start MySQL
    • Auto Start Apache
    • Install PearDB
    • Reboot server
  • Install Dependencies for Google Voice (If needed/wanted)
    • Install iksemel
  • Add the Asterisk User
  • Install and Configure Asterisk
    • Install DAHDI.
    • Install Asterisk
    • Install Asterisk-Extra-Sounds
  • Install and Configure FreePBX
    • Download and extract FreePBX.
    • Set ownership permissions.
    • A few small modifications to Apache.
    • Configure Asterisk database in MYSQL. 
    • Set permissions on MYSQL database.
    • Restart Asterisk and install FreePBX.
    • Finally, one last mod and start FreePBX.
  • Start FreePBX
    • Navigate: 
  • Install and Setup Commercial Modules
    • Enable the FreePBX Commercial yum repos
    • yum clean all to clean out yum cache so it will find out new RPMs
    • yum install needed RPMs for Commercial Modules
    • Restart Apache and Install Sysadmin
    • For Further information see: CentOS and RHEL based systems.

Initial System Setup

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You MUST run all of these commands as the root user!

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You MUST disable selinux.  selinux can cause strange behavior during the install

Disable selinux

In /etc/sysconfig/selinux , change the following lines:

sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/sysconfig/selinux

reboot, and verify the selinux status by running 'sestatus'. It should say:

SELinux status: disabled

Update Your System

yum -y update yum groupinstall core yum groupinstall base

Install Additional Required Dependencies

yum install gcc gcc-c++ lynx bison mysql-devel mysql-server php php-mysql php-pear php-mbstring tftp-server httpd make ncurses-devel libtermcap-devel sendmail sendmail-cf caching-nameserver sox newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel audiofile-devel gtk2-devel subversion kernel-devel git subversion kernel-devel php-process crontabs cronie cronie-anacron wget vim php-xml

Add Asterisk/Digium CentOS Repos

cd /etc/yum.repos.d  wget http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/centos-asterisk-12.repo wget http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/centos-asterisk-11.repo wget http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/centos-asterisk.repo wget http://packages.digium.com/centos/centos-digium-12.repo wget http://packages.digium.com/centos/centos-digium-11.repo wget http://packages.digium.com/centos/centos-digium-1.8-certified.repo wget http://packages.digium.com/centos/centos-digium-1.8.repo wget http://packages.digium.com/centos/centos-digium.repo

IPTables

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Keeping IPTables turned off indefinitely is strongly discouraged. You will incur the wrath of high fees and hackers

You must disable the default iptables.  You can re-enable it later, once you have made the appropriate changes.  Information on iptables can be found with a quick Google search.  If iptables is left running, it will (at very least) block you from accessing the web interface.
 

See the current status:   

chkconfig iptables --list

Disable iptables:

chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off

Stop the service (this skips rebooting again):

service iptables stop

Auto Start MySQL

You must have mysql running for freepbx to operate normally.  You need to set it to start at boot time. with the following command:

chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on

Then start mysqld if you don't plan on rebooting during the installation phase:

service mysqld start

Auto Start Apache

You will want Apache running, so you can access the FreePBX admin interface,  You need to set it to start at boot time. with the following command:

chkconfig --level 345 httpd on

Then start apache if you don't plan on rebooting during the installation phase:

service httpd start

Install PearDB

pear channel-update pear.php.net pear install db

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You may receive a warning:

WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2"

At this time it is safe to ignore that message

Reboot server

reboot

Install Dependencies for Google Voice (If needed/wanted)

Install iksemel

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

Add the Asterisk User

adduser asterisk -M -c "Asterisk User"

Install and Configure Asterisk

Install DAHDI.

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If you have no TDM cards you can skip this step

yum install dahdi-linux dahdi-tools libpri

Install Asterisk

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Each major version of Asterisk has its own repository. Within the repository, there are many different packages available for Asterisk. Different packages will install Asterisk with different modules enabled, such as ODBC voicemail.

By default, the various Asterisk repositories are disabled. This allows you to have multiple Asterisk repository definitions installed on a single machine, and to choose which major version of Asterisk you'd like to install when running yum install.

You can select Asterisk 11 instead by switching "asterisk-12" out for "Asterisk-11"

yum install asterisk asterisk-configs --enablerepo=asterisk-12

Install Asterisk-Extra-Sounds

yum install asterisk-sounds*

Install and Configure FreePBX

Download and extract FreePBX.

export VER_FREEPBX=12.0 cd /usr/src git clone http://git.freepbx.org/scm/freepbx/framework.git freepbx cd freepbx git checkout release/${VER_FREEPBX}

Set ownership 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 mkdir /var/www/html chown -R asterisk. /var/www/

A few small modifications 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

Configure Asterisk database in MYSQL. 

cd /usr/src/freepbx export ASTERISK_DB_PW=amp109 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.

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

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If you see an error about "Uncaught exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'gpg took too long to run.'" it is safe to run "amportal a ma installall" again.

Finally, one last mod and start FreePBX.

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

Start FreePBX

Navigate: 

http://yourlocalipaddress/html or if you prefer http://localhost/admin

Install and Setup Commercial Modules

Enable the FreePBX Commercial yum repos

wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ -N http://yum.schmoozecom.net/schmooze-commercial/schmooze-commercial.repo

yum clean all to clean out yum cache so it will find out new RPMs

yum clean all

yum install needed RPMs for Commercial Modules

yum -y install php-5.3-zend-guard-loader sysadmin fail2ban incron ImageMagick

Restart Apache and Install Sysadmin

service httpd restart amportal a ma download sysadmin amportal a ma install sysadmin

For Further information see: CentOS and RHEL based systems.