How To Install FreePBX Server On Ubuntu 14.04

by Admin · Published September 8, 2017 · Updated July 20, 2019

Deploy asterisk FreePBX server on ubuntu 14.04. FreePBX is an open source ip telephony system provided by sangoma. Create virtual machine with some configuration such as memory 2GB, RAM 2GB and harddisk 20GB.

Then install ubuntu 14.04 on your virtual machine. First install FreePBX 12 then upgrade to FreePBX 13

★ How To Setup CHAN SIP Trunk

★ How To Monitor Linux Server From Zabbix Server

Step #01: FreePBX system update and upgrade needed

[email protected]:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Step #02: Now install some required packages like as php. mysql and git.

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 libmysqlclient-dev mpg123 libxml2-dev libnewt-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev pkg-config automake libtool autoconf git subversion unixodbc-dev uuid uuid-dev libasound2-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libical-dev libneon27-dev libsrtp0-dev libspandsp-dev libmyodbc

During installation, you need to set a password for the MySQL. In my case I set a password “passw0rd”
Now create asterisk user and asterisk database with all grant privileges.

[email protected]:~# mysql -uroot -ppassw0rd

show as like below

Step #03: Create asterisk database

mysql > create database asterisk;
mysql > grant all privileges on asterisk.* to [email protected] identified by 'passw0rd';
mysql > create database asteriskcdrdb;
mysql > grant all privileges on asteriskcdrdb.* to [email protected] identified by 'passw0rd';
mysql > flush privileges;
mysql > exit;

Peer uninstall DB

[email protected]:~# pear uninstall db

Peer Install DB

[email protected]:~# pear install db-1.7.14

Step #04: Goto cd /usr/src and download FreePBX required packages.

[email protected]:/usr/src# wget -c https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/pkgs/iksemel/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz/md5/532e77181694f87ad5eb59435d11c1ca/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz

Now extract and step by step follow command

[email protected]:/usr/src# tar xf iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
[email protected]:/usr/src# cd iksemel-1.4/
[email protected]:/usr/src/iksemel-1.4# ./configure
[email protected]:/usr/src/iksemel-1.4# make
[email protected]:/usr/src/iksemel-1.4# make install

Step #05: Goto cd ../ for previous directory

[email protected]:/usr/src/iksemel-1.4# cd ../
[email protected]:/usr/src# wget -c http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/old-releases/asterisk-12.8.2.tar.gz
[email protected]:/usr/src# git clone https://github.com/akheron/jansson.git
[email protected]:/usr/src# git clone https://github.com/asterisk/pjproject.git

Goto pjproject folder and run below command step by step

[email protected]:/usr/src# cd pjproject
[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# ./configure --enable-shared --disable-sound --disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr
[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# make dep
[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# make
[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# make install

Step #06: Goto cd ../ for previous directory then run one by one command

[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# cd ../jansson
[email protected]:/usr/src/jansson/# autoreconf -i
[email protected]:/usr/src/jansson/# ./configure
[email protected]:/usr/src/jansson/# make
[email protected]:/usr/src/jansson/# make install

Step #07: Goto cd ../ for previous directory

[email protected]:/usr/src/pjproject# cd ../
[email protected]:/usr/src# tar xf asterisk-12.8.2.tar.gz
[email protected]:/usr/src/jansson/# cd asterisk-12.8.2/
[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# ./configure
[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# make menuselect

Select format mp3 on the right tab see image below

[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# make
[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# make install
[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# ldconfig

Step #08: Download sound package

[email protected]:/usr/src/asterisk-12.8.2# cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/

Then extract and remove downloaded file

[email protected]:/var/lib/asterisk/sounds# wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
[email protected]:/var/lib/asterisk/sounds# tar xf asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
[email protected]:/var/lib/asterisk/sounds# rm -rf asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz

Step #09: Download FreePBX web gui and added some permission

[email protected]:/var/lib/asterisk/sounds# cd /mnt
[email protected]:/mnt# wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-12.0-latest.tgz
[email protected]:/mnt# tar xf freepbx-12.0-latest.tgz
[email protected]:/mnt# useradd -m asterisk
[email protected]:/mnt# chown asterisk. /var/run/asterisk
[email protected]:/mnt# chown -R asterisk. /etc/asterisk
[email protected]:/mnt# chown -R asterisk. /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk
[email protected]:/mnt# chown -R asterisk. /usr/lib/asterisk
[email protected]:/mnt# chown asterisk /var/lib/php5/
[email protected]:/mnt# chown asterisk.asterisk /var/lib/php5/
[email protected]:/mnt# rm -rf /var/www/html

Step #10: Increase upload maximum size and add asterisk use and group. upload_max_filesize=120M and add User asterisk, Group asterisk

[email protected]:# vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Goto line number 109 and 110 insert below lines

User asterisk
Group asterisk

See my video for upload file size, add user and group

Step #11: Goto mysql terminal and import FreePBX asterisk and asteriskcdrdb databases.

When database import then ask mysql database password and type here.

[email protected]:/mnt# cd freepbx/SQL/
[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx/SQL# mysql -u root -p asterisk < newinstall.sql
[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx/SQL# mysql -u root -p asteriskcdrdb < cdr_mysql_table.sql

Step #12: Now install FreePBX web gui

[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx/SQL# cd ../
[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx# ./start_asterisk start
[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx$ ./install_amp

Then important asterisk user, asterisk DB password and IP address then proceed.

Database engine [mysql]: Enter
Database name [asterisk]: Enter
CDR Database name [asteriskcdrdb]: Enter
Database username [root]: Enter
Database password: type your password here
File owner user [asterisk]: Enter
File owner group [asterisk]: Enter
Filesystem location from which FreePBX files will be sarved [/var/www/html: Enter

At this time please restart asterisk.

Now your server reboot and start asterisk

[email protected]:/mnt/freepbx/SQL#  reboot

Now got your browser and type your FreePBX server ip address then create admin user for login web GUI.

http://10.66.51.10/admin/

Prepare login credential using created user name and password.

Troubleshooting

Client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/admin/

Author
Recent Posts

Admin

I am system administrator as Windows and Linux platform. I have 2 years skilled from the professional period. I have to configure Linux based system such as an Asterisk VOIP system, Network monitoring tools (ZABBIX), Virtualization (XEN Server), Cloud computing (Apache CloudStack) etc. Now share my professional skill each interested person.
Thanks to all.