Install Ubuntu 12.04 Server LTS 32 or 64-bit
Commercial Modules
Commercial modules and add-ons are not currently supported on the Ubuntu platform. Commercial Modules can be purchased in the FreePBX Distro Market Place and are only supported on the FreePBX Distro platform.
Initial System Setup
Configure your root password.
sudo passwd root
Switch to the Root User
sudo -i
Update Your System
apt-get update && sudo 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 php-db php5-gd curl sox libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libmysqlclient15-dev mpg123 libxml2-dev libnewt-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev pkg-config automake libtool autoconf git subversion uuid uuid-dev
Install PearDB
pear uninstall db pear install db-1.7.14
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
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-11-current.tar.gz
Compile and install DAHDI.
cd /usr/src tar xvfz dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz cd dahdi-linux-complete-* make all make install make config
Compile and install LIBPRI.
cd /usr/src tar xvfz libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz cd libpri-* make make install
Compile and install Asterisk
cd /usr/src tar xvfz asterisk-11-current.tar.gz cd asterisk-* ./configure contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh make menuselect make make install make config
Install Asterisk-Extra-Sounds
cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz tar xfz asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz rm asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz
Install and Configure FreePBX
Download and extract FreePBX.
cd /usr/srcwget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.11.0.43.tgz tar vxfz freepbx-2.11.0.43.tgz
Now create the Asterisk user and set ownership permissions.
adduser asterisk --disabled-password --gecos "Asterisk User"
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/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 service apache2 restart
Configure Asterisk database in MYSQL.
export ASTERISK_DB_PW=amp109 mysqladmin -u root create asterisk -p mysqladmin -u root create asteriskcdrdb -p mysql -u root asterisk -p < SQL/newinstall.sql mysql -u root asteriskcdrdb -p < SQL/cdr_mysql_table.sql
Set permissions on MYSQL database.
mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asterisk.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';" mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asteriskcdrdb.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';" mysql -u root -p -e "flush privileges;"
Restart Asterisk and install FreePBX.
./start_asterisk start ./install_amp --webroot /var/www amportal a ma installall amportal a reload
** If “. /install_amp” fails to run correctly, in terminal type:
./install_amp --username=asteriskuser --password=$ASTERISK_DB_PW --webroot /var/www
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
After you enable and update the modules in FreePBX You might see the following error.
Symlink from modules failed
To correct this error do the following:
Delete the list of failed files
cd /etc/asterisk rm ccss.conf confbridge.conf features.conf sip.conf iax.conf logger.conf extensions.conf sip_notify.conf
Then on the FreePBX webUI go to the ‘Module Admin’ and uninstall and reinstall the ‘Camp On’ module. This should resolve the Symlink issue.
15 Comments
Andrew Nagy
Change asteriskuser to be asterisk
Martin Anderson
Does this work on the Server or the Desktop edition, or both? You should specify!
Also, what about dependencies?? I'm almost certain that if I tried these commands on a server edition, it would fail for the lack of 15 different dependencies....
alan al
It is a "phone server" why in the world would you install it on the desktop edition? A production system demands a production level server not a desktop. You could probably install it on the desktop edition but again why?
Here is some basic info about the differences between desktop and server editions.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq#What.27s_the_difference_between_desktop_and_server.3F
This page does disclaim that this type of installation is for "Experts only"
There is also a section of this document titled "Install Required Dependencies" which would seem to cover installing dependencies.
Have you tried the procedure? If you have please help the community by listing any dependencies that may have been missed.
Martin Anderson
Good technical documentation is as specific as possible. If this was written by someone using Server, that should be indicated. I've spent the last two days trying to get something to build on Server without success. I'm pretty sure that whoever wrote the documentation did it on a Desktop edition, which has many dependencies that are not included on the Server version.
I don't believe that all of those dependencies were listed when I wrote my comment. If they were, I somehow missed them.
Andrew Nagy
Martin,
I wrote the documentation and I wrote it based on server (and I wrote it WHILE I did it) and the dependencies have been there for over a year now. You can see all of this by just simply looking at page history: http://wiki.freepbx.org/pages/viewpreviousversions.action?pageId=1409028
Please keep in mind that I do know what I'm doing when it comes to technical writing and if you would have followed the documentation it wouldn't have mattered if you were on desktop or server (however on the desktop version you'd have a completely useless CPU sucking gui running).
As is how all of these *nix distros work, you can easily turn a desktop version into a server version, you don't even have to change the yum or apt-get repo server addresses.
judetwenty
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to run this documentation in order to make my asterisk server working on Ubuntu 12.04 Dekstop version (on VM VirtualBox)
I did all the steps and when trying to go to the webrowser to point to my local ipadress, i got this error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /admin was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at 192.168.0.19 Port 80Could tou please give me help ?Thanks in advance.
Andrew Nagy
try: freepbx/admin
Martin Anderson
Firewall?
Also, if you're running this in a VMWare, I'd recommend going with the pre-compiled, ready to go ISO that you can download from here:
http://schmoozecom.com/distro-download.php
songee yun
Firstly, Thank you for your effort.
I have a question. In this manual, we used asterisk ver.11. but i checked asterisk ver. 1.8.13.1 in freepbx.
so i check again asterisk version in ubuntu using 'asterisk -rvvv'.
and i saw 'Connected to Asterisk 1.8.13.1~dfsg-1ubuntu2 currently running on ...'
what is Asterisk 1.8.13.1~dfsg-1ubuntu2 ??? Is this version possible to use video conference??
I have to configure video conference... TT
I'm waiting for your reply.. Thank you
Luiz Dirickson
Thanks a lot for this work. We successfuly install FreePBX on Ubuntu server 12.04 64bits running on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine... All services are working, but I think we miss someting: "http://myipaddress" get me a "It works!" page... http://myipaddress/freepbx/admin get me a "Forbiden" page... We are testing using Windows 2008 R2 IE browser... Thanks for any help. Regads, Luiz
pablo
Would the Free PBX install instructions work correctly on a later version of Ubuntu (13.10 for example) ? Paul
Fr08
I followed these instructions using an AWS EC2 Micro instance running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit ed.I
Installation was going well up until:
Set permissions on MYSQL database.
mysql -u root -p -e"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asterisk.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';"mysql -u root -p -e"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asteriskcdrdb.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY '${ASTERISK_DB_PW}';"mysql -u root -p -e"flush privileges;"Restart Asterisk and install FreePBX.
./start_asteriskstartdziny
To: Fr08 That is a known AWS bug. Apparently asterisk is compiled with flags that EC2 micro instance does not support and hence asterisk crashed on start. Due to the presence of safe_asterisk the asterisk is then continuously restarted (and it crashes each time naturally).
reiki
Hi Guys
I have a strange problem with freepbx; I followed this guide and the i've installed the pbx on my ubunti server 12.04.
Now after the installation of freepbx and the upgrade of modules , all sip extensions failure to register..can you help me?
Thanks
Jason Shave
Running Ubuntu 14.10 I had to modify /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and change the 'DocumentRoot' value to /var/www/admin otherwise I received a 404 Page Not Found when navigating to http://<serverIP>/
EXCELLENT write up though!! Everything worked/installed 99.99% perfectly!
<I'm running my Ubuntu on Microsoft Azure trunking to ThinkTel and Skype for Business Server 2015!>