READ FIRST
Manual installations of FreePBX is considered an EXPERTS ONLY exercise. This method of installation is enough to get CORE functionality of FreePBX. Non-commercial modules may not function as expected or detailed in the Wiki's. Certain modules and features may require additional software to be installed and configured on the server.
**** COMMERCIAL MODULES CANNOT BE INSTALLED ON THIS OS ****
For Asterisk 16 you must enable app_macro in make menuselect
Install Centos 8
Initial System Setup
You MUST run all of these commands as the root user!
You MUST disable selinux. selinux can cause strange behavior during the install
Disable selinux
sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/sysconfig/selinux sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config
reboot, and verify the selinux status by running 'sestatus'. It should say:
SELinux status: disabled
Update Your System
dnf -y update dnf -y group install "Development Tools"
Add the Asterisk User
adduser asterisk -m -c "Asterisk User"
Firewalld Basic Configuration
You must open port 80 so that you can access the administration interface
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --reload
Install Additional Required Dependencies
dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools dnf -y install lynx tftp-server unixODBC mariadb-server mariadb httpd ncurses-devel sendmail sendmail-cf newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel gtk2-devel subversion git wget vim uuid-devel sqlite-devel net-tools gnutls-devel texinfo libuuid-devel libedit-devel dnf config-manager --set-disabled PowerTools dnf install -y http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/MySQL/Downloads/Connector-ODBC/8.0/mysql-connector-odbc-8.0.19-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dnf install -y epel-release dnf install -y libid3tag dnf install -y https://forensics.cert.org/cert-forensics-tools-release-el8.rpm dnf --enablerepo=forensics install -y sox dnf install -y audiofile-devel dnf install -y python3-devel
Install php7.2
dnf remove php* dnf install -y php php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-mbstring php-pear php-process php-xml php-opcache php-ldap php-intl php-soap php-json
Install nodejs
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash - dnf install -y nodejs
Enable and Start MariaDB
You must have MariaDB running for freepbx to operate normally. It must start automatically, and be running continuously.
systemctl enable mariadb.service systemctl start mariadb
Now that our MariaDB database is running, we want to run a simple security script that will remove some dangerous defaults and lock down access to our database system a little bit
mysql_secure_installation
The prompt will ask you for your current root password. Since you just installed MySQL, you most likely won’t have one, so leave it blank by pressing enter. Then the prompt will ask you if you want to set a root password. Do not set a root password. We secure the database automatically, as part of the install script. Apart from that you can chose yes for the rest. This will remove some sample users and databases, disable remote root logins, and load these new rules so that MySQL immediately respects the changes we have made.
Enable and Start Apache
FreePBX uses the Apache web server, so this must be started and running.
systemctl enable httpd.service systemctl start httpd.service
Install Legacy Pear requirements
pear install Console_Getopt
Install and Configure Asterisk
Download Asterisk source files.
cd /usr/src wget -O jansson.tar.gz https://github.com/akheron/jansson/archive/v2.12.tar.gz wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
Compile and Install jansson
cd /usr/src tar vxfz jansson.tar.gz rm -f jansson.tar.gz cd jansson-* autoreconf -i ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64 make make install
Compile and install Asterisk
cd /usr/src tar xvfz asterisk-16-current.tar.gz rm -f asterisk-*-current.tar.gz cd asterisk-* contrib/scripts/install_prereq install ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-pjproject-bundled 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.
If you are using Asterisk 16, enable app_macro.
After selecting 'Save & Exit' you can then continue
make make install make config make samples ldconfig chkconfig asterisk off
Set Asterisk ownership permissions.
chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib64/asterisk
chown -R asterisk. /var/www/
Install and Configure FreePBX
A few small modifications to Apache.
sed -i 's/\(^upload_max_filesize = \).*/\120M/' /etc/php.ini sed -i 's/\(^memory_limit = \).*/\1256M/' /etc/php.ini sed -i 's/^\(User\|Group\).*/\1 asterisk/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf sed -i 's/\(^user = \).*/\1asterisk/' /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf sed -i 's/\(^group = \).*/\1asterisk/' /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf sed -i 's/\(^listen.acl_users = apache,nginx\).*/\1,asterisk/' /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf systemctl restart httpd.service systemctl restart php-fpm
Download and install FreePBX.
cd /usr/src wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-15.0-latest.tgz tar xfz freepbx-15.0-latest.tgz rm -f freepbx-15.0-latest.tgz cd freepbx ./start_asterisk start ./install -n
That's it!
Reboot the system and 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 15!
Automatic Startup
Please note you need to set up FreePBX to start asterisk (and it's associated services) on bootup. You can view an example systemd startup script here.
4 Comments
Bill Simon
nodejs version 12 does not work with FreePBX 15; specifically, the UCP nodejs daemon will not run due to failed dependency.
NooNoo
Install Additional Required Dependencies
powertools instead of PowerTools:
dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertoolsNooNoo
odbc connector version to install
dnfinstall-y http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/MySQL/Downloads/Connector-ODBC/8.0/mysql-connector-odbc-8.0.21-1.el8.x86_64.rpmNooNoo
without having to install jansson with asterisk 16 (pjproject is bundled by default)
asterisk ./configure :
./configure--libdir=/usr/lib64--with-jansson-bundled