Install Basic CentOS Server Installation

• • Dev SVN Branch can also be installed this way, the only difference is fusionpbx**

Hi there, it seems this guide was hastily thrown together before I happened to stumble upon it with alot of things that might have either hosed your system or made it difficult to use. I'm currently reworking this page to make it a proper

 installation guide. Any questions feel free to put in the talk page. Alot of the packages listed for installation here may or may not be needed, the list was here before I got here, but its alot better than when I first stumbled upon it. Previously if you tried the old guide it would hose your apache install (I mean majorly, apache would literally stackdump), and majorly screw up other system utilities. This just needs to be a simple and plain freeswitch + fusionpbx installation, nothing more, nothing less.

you can download centOS 6.5 from

 dead link 
Use the latest 6.5 Installation, its up to you how you would like to install, best bet is netinstall using the basic server as the base once you get to the package selection: !!Never download ISOs from unknown sources!! (centos 7 will be supported soon!)

64 bit isos:

32 bit isos:

Then Do update to up to date

yum update -y

Disabling SELINUX

/bin/sed -i -e s,'SELINUX=enforcing','SELINUX=disabled', /etc/selinux/config

Reboot so selinux is off.

Install Epel:

Install a bunch of needed packages:

yum -y install autoconf automake gcc-c++ git-core libjpeg-devel libtool make ncurses-devel pkgconfig \
libedit-devel  unixODBC-devel openssl-devel gnutls-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel curl-devel libtiff-devel \
libjpeg-devel python-devel expat-devel zlib zlib-devel bzip2 which  subversion screen vim php php-mysql ntp libX11-devel \
libzrtpcpp-devel alsa-lib-devel libdb-devel uuid-devel @development-tools gdbm-devel db4-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel \
libtermcap libtermcap-devel ncurses ntp screen sendmail sendmail-cf bison gettext-devel httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel \
cyrus-sasl-devel gettext-libs openldap-devel ldns ldns-devel

Installing Apache webserver

yum install httpd httpd-devel

Install MySQL.

yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-server-devel mysql-devel

Configuring autostart

chkconfig mysqld on

Starting mysql

service mysqld start

Changing mysql root password

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password "yourpassword" 

cd /usr/src
git clone git://git.freeswitch.org/freeswitch.git
cd freeswitch
./bootstrap.sh 

Edit modules.conf to enable or disable desired modules. To enable a few extra features you may want to go ahead and edit modules.conf. Remove the # in front of the lines with these modules:

mod_rtmp
mod_directory
mod_callcenter
mod_tts_commandline
mod_dingaling
mod_flite
mod_shout
mod_pocketsphinx
mod_cidlookup

Installing Freeswitch

configure --enable-core-odbc-support && make && make install
make cd-moh-install && make cd-sounds-install

If you get an error, it will likely be module related, see what module it errored on in the output and comment that module out - or try to fix it.

Add a user for freeswitch

useradd freeswitch

set ownership, perms, and install init scripts

cd /usr/local/
chown -R freeswitch:freeswitch freeswitch
chmod -R g+w freeswitch
cd /usr/src/freeswitch/build
cp freeswitch.init.redhat /etc/init.d/freeswitch
chmod +x /etc/init.d/freeswitch
cp freeswitch.sysconfig /etc/sysconfig/freeswitch

Add Settings to freeswitch sysconfig

cat >> /etc/sysconfig/freeswitch <<EOT
PID_FILE=/var/run/freeswitch/freeswitch.pid
FS_USER=freeswitch
FS_FILE=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch
FS_HOME=/usr/local/freeswitch
EOT

Change permission Add Freeswitch Service to start at boot time

chmod 765 /etc/init.d/freeswitch
/sbin/chkconfig freeswitch on
/sbin/chkconfig --list freeswitch

Move Default Freeswitch config files to noload

cd /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/dialplan/default
mv 00_ladspa.xml 00_ladspa.noload
mv 00_pizza_demo.xml 00_pizza_demo.noload
mv 01_Talking_Clock.xml 01_Talking_Clock.noload

Linking fs_cli

cd /usr/local/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/fs_cli fs_cli

installing Fusion

Fix FusionPBX Ownership and Perms

cd /var/www/html
chown -R apache:apache fusionpbx

cd /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/
chmod 770 `find . -type d`
chmod 660 `find . -type f`

Add apache to the freeswitch Group

usermod -a -G freeswitch apache

Add database and odbc configuration:

mysql> create database freeswitch
mysql> grant all privileges on freeswitch.* to 'admin'@'localhost' identified by 'YOUR-DATABASE-PASSWORD';
mysql> exit

edit /etc/odbc.ini:

[freeswitch]
Driver   = MySQL
SERVER   = localhost
PORT     = 3306
DATABASE = freeswitch
OPTION  = 67108864
Socket   = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Test your database connection:

[[email protected]]# isql freeswitch  admin YOUR-DATABASE-PASSWORD
+---------------------------------------+
| Connected!                            |
|                                       |
| sql-statement                         |
| help [tablename]                      |
| quit                                  |
|                                       |
+---------------------------------------+
SQL> quit

start up some services and set them to run at boot

service freeswitch start
service httpd restart
chkconfig freeswitch on
chkconfig httpd on
service monit start
chkconfig monit on

Installing FusionPBX from GUI