Installation Prerequisites

It is assumed that you have already installed Asterisk on a suitable machine. This tutorial does not cover that part of the installation. If you are unfamiliar with the
install of Asterisk, it may be better to start with a pre-built distribution, e.g.

PBX in a Flash – www.pbxinaflash.com, or FonicaPABX – www.fonicaprojects.com may provide a secure base on which to build A2Billing.

Asterisk Now, Elastix and Trixbox are other possibilities to provide a base as part of the family of Asterisk / FreePBX / CentOS distributions. However, the author has
no knowledge of the security measures in place with these distributions, and indeed, Trixbox do recommend that their system is secured behind a firewall, so may not be
suitable for connection directly to the Internet without some remedial work.

Alternatively, Support and Managed Installation and Training services are available through http://www.star2billing.com

The distributions mentioned are based on Centos, so these instructions are Centos biased.

These distributions can be installed on a VMWare image for testing if no hardware is available.

If you have hand-rolled your own distribution, and are familiar with 1.3.4, then the we assume that you have the necessary dependencies already installed.

Install Dependencies

yum -y install perl-DBD-Pg subversion

get A2Billing

mkdir /usr/local/src/a2billing
cd /usr/local/src/a2billing
svn co –username guest –password guest http://svn.a2billing.net/svn/asterisk2billing/trunk/ /usr/local/src/a2billing

copy a2billing.conf in /usr/local/src/a2billing/a2billing.conf to /etc/a2billing.conf

Edit a2billing.conf to suit your installation. e.g. change dbtype to mysql.

Install Database

Note that for Piaf and FonicaPABX, the database password is passw0rd and the location is localhost
cd /usr/local/src/a2billing/DataBase/mysql-5.x
./install-db.sh

Answer the questions appropriately with reference to /etc/a2billing.conf

You should now have a database called mya2billing with over 70 tables in it.

Install the AGI and Sound Files

So that we can easily update the system when changes are made during this period of change, we are going to use links back to the location where we installed the SVN
download, so that an update from the SVN will immediately reflect in your A2Billing install.

Note that Database changes will not be included using this methodology, so these will have to be done by hand.

This is not the usual way of doing it, but for testing, it works well. You can also simply move or copy the files into the appropriate location.
ln -s /usr/local/src/a2billing/AGI/a2billing.php /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/a2billing.php

set ownership and permissions on AGI

chown asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/a2billing.php
chmod +x /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/a2billing.php

Set up sounds

cd /usr/local/src/a2billing/addons/sounds
./install_a2b_sounds.sh

set ownership on sounds

chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/

Asterisk Manager

Now edit /etc/asterisk/manager_custom.conf (or manager.conf for those not using a pre-rolled distribution including FreePBX). Add the following lines
[myasterisk]
secret = mycode
deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit=127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0
read = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
write = system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user

Install Web Pages

Assumption is that apache2 root folder is /var/www/html

Common

ln -s /usr/local/src/a2billing/common /var/www/html/a2billing/common

Admin pages

ln -s /usr/local/src/a2billing/admin /var/www/html/a2billing/admin

Agent

ln -s /usr/local/src/a2billing/agent /var/www/html/a2billing/agent

Customer

ln -s /usr/local/src/a2billing/customer /var/www/html/a2billing/customer

Now we need to set permissions for Apache.

If you are using a pre-rolled Distro, then web group and ownership are asterisk and asterisk, if you are not using a distro, then you probably know what to set anyway.
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/www/html/a2billing/
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /usr/local/src/a2billing/common
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /usr/local/src/a2billing/admin
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /usr/local/src/a2billing/customer
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /usr/local/src/a2billing/agent

Cronjobs

echo ”
# Automatically added for A2Billing
0 * * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_alarm.php
0 12 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_archive_data_cront.php
0 10 21 * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_autorefill.php
#Batch process at 00:20 each day
20 0 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_batch_process.php
#Bill DID usage at 00:00 each day
0 0 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_bill_diduse.php
#Generate Invoices at 6am everyday
0 6 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_batch_billing.php
#Check if balance below preset value, and email user if so.
1 * * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_notify_account.php
#Charge subscriptions at 06:05 on the 1st of each month
0 6 1 * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_subscription_fee.php
#Update currencies at 01:00 each day
0 1 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/currencies_update_yahoo.php
” >> /var/spool/cron/asterisk

Add directory for monitoring Script

mkdir -p /var/lib/a2billing/script
mkdir -p /var/run/a2billing

Create Log Files

Log files and Permissions

touch /var/log/asterisk/a2billing-daemon-callback.log
touch /var/log/a2billing-daemon-callback.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_alarm.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_autorefill.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_batch_process.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_bill_diduse.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_subscription_fee.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_currency_update.log
touch /var/log/cront_a2b_invoice.log
touch /var/log/a2billing_paypal.log
touch /var/log/a2billing_epayment.log
touch /var/log/api_ecommerce_request.log
touch /var/log/api_callback_request.log
touch /var/log/a2billing_agi.log

Callback

Here is a little script to install the call-back Daemon. Change the LOAD_LOC variable to reflect where you have downloaded A2Billing.

Callback Daemon installation Script

LOAD_LOC=/usr/local/src/a2billing

yum -y install python-setuptools.noarch
yum -y install MySQL-python
easy_install sqlalchemy

cd $LOAD_LOC/Callback/callback-daemon-py
cp $LOAD_LOC/CallBack/callback-daemon-py/build/lib/callback_daemon/a2b-callback-daemon.rc /etc/init.d/a2b-callback-daemon
chmod +x /etc/init.d/a2b-callback-daemon

cd $LOAD_LOC/CallBack/callback-daemon-py/
python setup.py build
python setup.py bdist_egg
easy_install dist/callback_daemon-1.0.prod_r1528-py2.4.egg
chkconfig –add a2b-callback-daemon
service a2b-callback-daemon start
chkconfig a2b-callback-daemon on

Dialplan

The dialplan you put into Asterisk is the same as it was for A2Billing 1.3.4. I’ve not got round to writing the dialplan as yet.

Reboot

Login

http://Your-Switch/a2billing

Log into the admin pages with root and changepassword

General Setup

The general setup is similar to 1.3.4, and the order of events is approximately similar

* Set up trunk * Set up callplan * Setup rate plan * add rate table to callplan * add rates * add customer * test.

Guidelines

Keep an eye on the development of A2Billing here.

http://www.asterisk2billing.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/trunk

Make sure that you are running the latest version before reporting a bug by periodically running.

Bugs can be dicussed in the bugs section here – http://forum.asterisk2billing.org/viewforum.php?f=22 before reporting them on the bug tracker.

Bugs tracking and reporting can be done here:- http://www.asterisk2billing.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/report

Read on to find out!

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yum update

yum upgrade

yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’

yum groupinstall ‘Development Libraries’

yum install -y kernel kernel-devel

cd /usr/src

wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz

tar xvzf asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz

a) Installing Zaptel

cd /usr/src/zaptel-1.4*
./install_prereq test
./install_prereq install
./configure
make
make install
make config
modprobe ztdummy

b) Installing Libpri

cd /usr/src/libpri-1.4*
make && make install

c) Installing Asterisk

c) Installing Asterisk

cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.4*

./configure

Comment: The next step is not mandatory. To install core and extra sounds in different languages:

make menuselect

Comment: Select the core-sounds you would like to play and extra sounds. Exit with �x� to save.

make
make install
make samples
make config
asterisk -vvvc
stop now
echo �ztdummy� >> /etc/modules

d) Installing Asterisk Addons

cd /usr/src/asterisk-addons*
./configure && make && make install
make samples

CNAM Revenue Sharing is when parties receiving CNAM revenue share this with other parties responsible for generating the CNAM revenue.

With SIP VoIP calls  there usually is no CNAM caller id information published to the CNAM database because the Wholesale VoIP Provider does not gain anything from publishing this information. Therefor most of the time these VoIP calls do not generate any CNAM dips and thus no revenue.

CNAM dip revenue is very little per individual dip, we are talking about pennies or even sub-penny level. Therefor collecting CNAM revenue is only applicable for users with a high volume of outbound traffic terminating in the United States. Telemarketing companies, calling card providers, SIP Termination wholesalers etc. make good candidates for CNAM revenue share programs.

CNAM Revenue Share Programs

With CNAM revenue share programs, the customer gets assigned a numer of virtual ANIs (simplified you can see ANIs as telephone numbers). They then program these ANIs to be displayed on their outbound calls as their caller id, the number that shows what number is calling you.

Because this is simply a flag passed on to the SS7 network, it is something that is very easy to do. It does not require the customer to change anything else in their calling paths. Only the programming of the ANI flag with the ANI provided by the CNAM revenue sharing program.

The customer then provides the CNAM revenue sharing party with the caller name (CNAM) they would like to be displayed when they call someone. The CNAM is then distributed to the different CNAM databases where all phone companies get their CNAM data from.

After this, the customer simply gets paid for each call they place that dips into the CNAM database. This can add up to very significant five or even six figure CNAM revenue share commissions.

For more information, please read more about  CNAM Revenue Share from grnVoIP’s website.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
aptitude install ssh ntp screen
aptitude install build-essential libcurl3-dev libvorbis-dev libspeex-dev unixodbc unixodbc-dev libiksemel-dev flex xsltproc linux-headers-`uname -r` g++ libncurses5-dev libnewt-dev libusb-dev subversion git-core flex bison
cd /usr/src/
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz
tar xvfz asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz
tar xvzf asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz && tar xvzf asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz tar
tar xvfz zaptel-1.4.12.1/
cd zaptel-1.4.12.1/
./install_prereq test
./install_prereq install
./configure
make
make install
make config
modprobe ztdummy
cd ../libpri-1.4.10.2/
make && make install
cd ../asterisk-1.4.30/
./configure
make
make install
make samples
make config
asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvvvgc
echo “ztdummy”
echo “ztdummy” >> /etc/modules
cd ../asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz
cd ..
tar xvfz asterisk-addons-1.4-current.tar.gz
cd asterisk-addons-1.4.10/
./configure && make && make install
make samples
apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server
cd /var/www/
wget http://www.asterisk2billing.org/downloads/A2Billing_1.6.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz A2Billing_1.6.0.tar.gz
mv A2Billing_1.6.0.tar.gz /tmp/
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common
apt-get install php5-cli php5-mysql mysql-server apache2 php5-gd
apt-get install openssh-server subversion
apt-get install php5-mcrypt
mysql -u root -p < DataBase/mysql-5.x/a2billing-createdb-user.sql
mysql -u a2billinguser -p mya2billing
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/a2billing-schema-v1.4.0.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.0-to-v1.4.1.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.1-to-v1.4.2.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.2-to-v1.4.3.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.3-to-v1.4.4.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.4-to-v1.4.4.1.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.4.1-to-v1.4.5.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.4.5-to-v1.5.0.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.5.0-to-v1.5.1.sql
mysql -u root -p mya2billing < DataBase/mysql-5.x/UPDATE-a2billing-v1.5.1-to-v1.6.0.sql
mysql -u a2billinguser -p mya2billing
cp a2billing.conf /etc/

touch /etc/asterisk/additional_a2billing_iax.conf
touch /etc/asterisk/additional_a2billing_sip.conf
echo \#include additional_a2billing_sip.conf >> /etc/asterisk/sip.conf
echo \#include additional_a2billing_iax.conf >> /etc/asterisk/iax.conf
chown -Rf www-data /etc/asterisk/additional_a2billing_iax.conf
chown -Rf www-data /etc/asterisk/additional_a2billing_sip.conf
cd addons/sounds/
./install_a2b_sounds.sh
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/
vi /etc/asterisk/manager.conf

Notice that we are using the default values (myasterisk, mycode) in this section. The configuration should look like this
[general]
enabled = yes
port = 5038
bindaddr = 0.0.0.0

[myasterisk]
secret=mycode
read=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user
write=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user

cd AGI/
cp a2billing.php /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
cp -rf ../common/lib /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
chmod +x /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/a2billing.php
mkdir /var/www/a2billing
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/a2billing
mkdir -p /var/lib/a2billing/script
mkdir -p /var/run/a2billing
mv admin a2billing/
mv agent a2billing/
mv customer a2billing/
mv common a2billing/
chmod 755 a2billing/admin/templates_c
chmod 755 a2billing/customer/templates_c
chmod 755 a2billing/agent/templates_c
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/a2billing/admin/templates_c
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/a2billing/customer/templates_c/
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/a2billing/customer/templates_c
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/a2billing/agent/templates_c
/etc/init.d/apache2 status
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
apt-get install python-setuptools python-mysqldb python-psycopg2 python-sqlalchemy
easy_install callback-daemon-py/dist/callback_daemon-1.0.prod_r1527-py2.5.egg

Direct a browser to the administrative web interface (http:///a2billing/admin) and login as administrator. Default passwords are:
user: root
pass: changepassword

vi /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf

[default]

include => a2billing

[a2billing]
; CallingCard application
exten => _X.,1,Answer
exten => _X.,2,Wait,2
exten => _X.,3,DeadAGI,a2billing.php
exten => _X.,4,Wait,2
exten => _X.,5,Hangup

[did]
; CallingCard application
exten => _X.,1,DeadAGI(a2billing.php|1|did)

crontab -e

# update the currency table
0 6 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/currencies_update_yahoo.php

# manage the monthly services subscription
0 6 1 * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_subscription_fee.php

# To check account of each Users and send an email if the balance is less than the user have choice.
0 * * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_notify_account.php

# this script will browse all the DID that are reserve and check if the customer need to pay for it
# bill them or warn them per email to know if they want to pay in order to keep their DIDs
0 2 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_bill_diduse.php

# This script will take care of the recurring service.
0 12 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_batch_process.php

#Generate Invoices at 6am everyday
0 6 * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_batch_billing.php

# to proceed the autodialer
*/5 * * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_batch_autodialer.php

# manage alarms
0 * * * * php /usr/local/src/a2billing/Cronjobs/a2billing_alarm.php

This is the initial installation for Asterisk2Billing 1.6 in Debian Lenny 5.0.4

yum update
yum install httpd php
yum install gcc glibc glibc-common
yum install gd gd-devel
/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
passwd nagios
set nagios as password (I used nagios)
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd apache
mkdir ~/downloads
cd ~/downloads
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
tar xvzf nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz
cd nagios-3.2.1
./configure –with-command-group=nagcmd
make all
make install
make install-init
make install-config
make install-commandmode
make install-webconf
htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
set password for nagiosadmin = this is the webui
service httpd restart
cd ~/downloads
tar xvzf nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.11
./configure –with-nagios-user=nagios –with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install
chkconfig –add nagios
chkconfig nagios on
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
service nagios start

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Follow the instructions below to be a proud user:

wget http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz freeswitch-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd <freeswitch dir>

./configure
make all install

Quick and Dirty Install for the Impatient Ones

If you are impatient and know Linux at least moderately well then hop over to the quick and dirty install page!

Binary Installation or ISO CD-ROM Installation

The FreeSWITCH™ project maintains binary packages for a number of Linux distributions on the openSUSE Build Service. All external dependencies required by these FreeSWITCH™ packages are either part of the base Linux distros or available in the repository at: http://software.opensuse.org/download/network:/telephony/

There are unofficial Ubuntu Hardy packages available at;

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hads/ubuntu hardy main

Another option is the trixswitch ISO install package, a CentOS-based CD-ROM image that creates a boot CD that will automatically install CentOS and FreeSWITCH™.

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installing trixswitch will erase the hard drive!

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If your preferred Linux distro and version is listed there, then we recommend you use these packages. If however you wish to build the source yourself, continue reading.

Obtaining the Source Code

Ensure that you have met the dependencies listed below. Once that is completed, you have two methods to obtain the source code. Via subversion (svn) or by downloading a tarball. Subversion provides access to the latest features and bug fixes, while the tarballs are created nightly. There are subversion clients for windows as well as Unix-like systems. This document assumes that you are using a command-line subversion client. You will want to save the source somewhere convenient, execute the following from the directory appropriate for your operating system eg c:\source, /usr/local/src or /usr/src .

svn checkout http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk freeswitch

You can download Freeswitch 1.0.1 release source in a tarball from the following links.

http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.1.tar.gz

http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.1.tar.bz2

You can download the latest tagged release source in a tarball from the following link.

http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-1.0.latest.tar.gz

Or you may download other tarballs from marked releases or binary releases from the following link

http://files.freeswitch.org/

If you download the tarball you will need to untar it, in Windows you may use a tool like WinZip Unix-like systems come with tar preinstalled (and most modern ones with gunzip). If you are in a Unix-like system execute the following:

tar zxvf freeswitch-snapshot.tar.gz

If you are facing problems because of web proxy you could try something like this:

svn co http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk freeswitch.trunk
 cd freeswitch.trunk
 svn propedit svn:externals . --editor-cmd=[your favorite editor here]
 remove the :81 from both externals urls
 save/exit
 svn update

Compiling the Source Code

Windows

• Open Freeswitch.sln
• Right click the main solution node at the top of the Solution Explorer
• Right click and select Build

Note that building for Windows within a tree that has previously been built for a different platform will result in numerous errors and build failures. To resolve, delete the following generated files:

• libs/apr/include/apr.h
• libs/js/config.h
• libs/js/src/jsautocfg.h
• libs/js/nsprpub/pr/include/prcpucfg.h
• libs/iksemel/include/config.h
• libs/xmlrpc/xmlrpc_config.h
• libs/libsndfile/src/sfconfig.h; also rename libs/win32/libsndfile/config.h to libs/win32/libsndfile/sfconfig.h
• libs/sofia-sip/libsofia-sip-ua/su/sofia-sip/su_configure.h

then Rebuild the solution.

Building under VS 2008 may require that you disable “Enable Minimal Rebuild” in the properties pane for FreeSwitchCoreLib project if VS reports an internal compilation error in SimpleGlob.h.

You may also need to “Enable default libraries” in the properties pane for XML Interfaces\mod_xml_rpc if VS complains of numerous unresolved external symbols, e.g., _memset, _strcmp.

After following the instructions above to build for Windows, you will need to delete “libs/js/nsprpub/pr/include/prcpucfg.h” and rerun “./bootstrap.sh” before building for another platform.

Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, OS X)

All commands should be executed from within the main source repository. If you downloaded a tarball you may skip this step, jumping to ./configure

./bootstrap.sh

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Some Linux distributions (Debian, for example) include both autoconf2.13 and autoconf2.50 along with a script called “autoconf” that automatically selects between the two. The numbers appended to the programs show which flavor of autoconf it provides, but autoconf2.50 can actually be autoconf version 2.61. bootstrap.sh checks for the version of autoconf, but the autoconf script returns version 2.13 by default. If bootstrap.sh fails with a complaint about needing autoconf 2.59 or above and you have installed the prerequisites listed below, try:

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AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf ./bootstrap.sh

By default FreeSWITCH is installed in the /usr/local/freeswitch prefix. To configure:

./configure

If you don’t have root access add –prefix=~/freeswitch to the command. For configuring with ODBC support see here.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freeswitch

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Not all Debian releases have /usr/bin/gcc. Instead you can find something like /usr/bin/gcc-X.Y so ./configure will fail, if it is missing. To execute without problem ./configure, try:

ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-X.Y /usr/bin/gcc

on such a release. Remember to change X.Y with the correct numbers. It will work like a charm.

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On ubuntu hardy, configure will complain about missng curses library. libcurses5 is installed by default, so just make a symbolic link:

ln -s /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so

You should now create a modules.conf.

cp build/modules.conf.in modules.conf

Edit modules.conf so that it will build the modules you desire. If you are unsure, leave this to the defaults. FreeSWITCH™ comes with a good set of modules as the default, until you become more familiar with FreeSWITCH™ it is advised that you not edit modules.conf. A # at the beginning will omit that module from being built. A list of the modules can be obtained from the Modules page.

Once you are done configuring the build environment you need to run the following commands:

make
make install
make sounds-install
make moh-install

Suse 10.3 Note: Compiling on Suse 10.3 if you get this error:

libtool: link: `src/jsapi.lo' is not a valid libtool object
make[6]: *** [libjs.la] Error 1
make[5]: *** [/usr/src/freeswitch.trunk/libs/js/libjs.la] Error 2
make[4]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: *** [mod_spidermonkey-all] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Try the following procedure:

cd libs/js/
make clean
make
cd ../..
make

I don’t know why it won’t build correctly on Suse 10.3 the first time around, but bkw suggested that as a workaround mid July 2008 and it seems to work for both the x86 and x86_64 platforms.
There are also higher bitrate sounds available for download and installation with:

make uhd-sounds-install
make uhd-moh-install
make hd-sounds-install
make hd-moh-install

FreeBSD

Installing FreeBSD dependencies:

SVN: Several Choices.

GNUMAKE: The GNU version of make. (will be installed automatically as a dependency to autoconf)

AUTOCONF: Version 2.50 or higher. Note that version 2.62 does not seem to work (at the time writing at least), ./configure will fail in libsndfile if you are using that version. Version 2.61 seems to work just fine.

pkg_add -r autoconf261

GCC: Version 3.95 or higher

pkg_add -r gcc34

WGET: Almost any version

pkg_add -r wget

AUTOMAKE: Version 1.70 or higher

pkg_add -r automake19

GLIBTOOL: Version 1.5.14 or higher

pkg_add -r libtool

LIBNCURSES: Almost any version

pkg_add -r ncurses

SVN: Subversion

pkg_add -r subversion

Get source with wget:

cd /usr/src
/usr/local/bin/wget http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-snapshot.tar.gz
tar zxvf freeswitch-snapshot.tar.gz
cd freeswitch-snapshot

Note: ./bootstrap.sh has already been run for Full and Release Candidate versions.
Or get source with SVN

cd /usr/src
/usr/local/bin/svn co http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk freeswitch.trunk
cd freeswitch.trunk

Build Process After downloading the source with svn or with wget

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
gmake install
gmake samples
gmake sounds-install
gmake moh-install

Make sure you are using gmake and not make, it does not build properly with make at the moment on FreeBSD.

Run Freeswitch

cd /usr/local/freeswitch/bin
./freeswitch

Cross Compiling for ARM on Linux

These instructions were tested on Linux 2.6.18 (Centos 5) Cross compiling Linux 2.6.21 for ARM using gcc 3.4.6

All commands should be executed from within the main source repository.

Create a modules.conf. (this can be done after configure but it is convenient to do it now)

cp build/modules.conf.in modules.conf

Decide if you want to include cpp code, if you are running on a small embedded system and don’t want to install the 2+MBytes libstdc++.so edit Makefile.am in the root of the source repository and remove all references to switch_cpp.cpp and switch_cpp.h, there is one of each. This will also disable all of FreeSWITCH’s language modules, edit modules.conf and comment out all the language modules, that is all the lines starting with “language”. You can still write C applications with the cpp disabled.

I was not able to get javascript working so you should comment out languages/mod_spidermonkey* from modules.conf and comment out the line “AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(libs/js)” in the file configure.in. If you figure out a way to get it working update this page, I wasn’t motivated as I did not intend to use it.

If you want to reduce the build time you can comment out other support libraries from configure.in, I only used and tested the following, it saves a lot of build time and I don’t know if the other libraries will build: libs/srtp libs/sqlite libs/libresample libs/libedit libs/pcre libs/apr libs/apr-util libs/codec/ilbc libs/sofia-sip libs/libsndfile libs/voipcodecs I already had a version of curl cross compiled so I did not use the version that comes with FreeSWITCH.
Run this command next, it will create all the configure scripts

./bootstrap.sh

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Some Linux distributions (Debian, for example) include both autoconf2.13 and autoconf2.50 along with a script called “autoconf” that automatically selects between the two. The numbers appended to the programs show which flavor of autoconf it provides, but autoconf2.50 can actually be autoconf version 2.61. bootstrap.sh checks for the version of autoconf, but the autoconf script returns version 2.13 by default. If bootstrap.sh fails with a complaint about needing autoconf 2.59 or above and you have installed the prerequisites listed below, try:

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AUTOCONF=/usr/bin/autoconf ./bootstrap.sh

Several of the packages cannot detect capabilities of the Cross Compile environment correctly so configure needs to be called with many options to get it to work correctly. Check that the options I have match your Cross Compile environment. Prior to running this the following environment variables must be set: TARGET_CC – the cross compiler HOSTCC – the host compiler CFLAGS – CFLAGS for the cross compiler CPPFLAGS – CPPFLAGS for the cross compiler LDFLAGS – LDFLAGS for the cross compiler These environment variables also need to be set to point to the appropriate tool in the cross compiler’s toolchain CC, CXX, AR, LD, GCC, AS, NM, RANLIB, STRIP, SIZE, OBJCOPY & OBJDUMP. Not sure if they are all used, but this is what worked for me.

You will need to adjust some setting to fit your environment, set the “path” in ac_cv_path__libcurl_config and –with-curl, or remove them if you use the version that comes with FreeSWITCH. Set –with-modinstdir to point to where the FreeSWITCH modules will be on the target filesystem.

export config_TARGET_CC="$(TARGET_CC)"; \
   export config_BUILD_CC="$(HOSTCC)"; \
   export config_TARGET_CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)"; \
   export config_TARGET_LIBS="$(LDFLAGS)"; \
   export CC_FOR_BUILD="$(HOSTCC)"; \
   export CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=" "; \
   export ac_cv_file__dev_zero=no; \
   export apr_cv_tcp_nodelay_with_cork=yes; \
   export ac_cv_sizeof_ssize_t=4; \
   export ac_cv_file_dbd_apr_dbd_mysql_c=yes; \
   export ac_cv_path__libcurl_config=/path/curl-config; \
   export apr_cv_mutex_recursive=yes; \
   export ac_cv_func_pthread_rwlock_init=yes; \
   export apr_cv_type_rwlock_t=yes; \
       ./configure \
       --target=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
       --host=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
       --build=$(GNU_HOST_NAME) \
       --with-libcurl=/path/install \
       --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom \
       --with-modinstdir=/mod \

If you have not done so edit modules.conf so that it will build the modules you desire. If you are unsure, leave this to the defaults. FreeSWITCH™ comes with a good set of modules as the default, until you become more familiar with FreeSWITCH™ it is advised that you not edit modules.conf. A # at the beginning will omit that module from being built. A list of the modules can be obtained from the Modules page.

Once you are done configuring the build environment you need to run the following command. (Your PATH must point to the cross compiler toolchain)

make

I found little use for make install as I didn’t want the Cross Compiled version installed on the build system. You will need to copy the freeswitch binary, library and modules directly out of the build tree into where ever you need them.

Compile Errors?

Did you get any compile errors or notice any bugs? Remember FreeSWITCH is still in development and requires contribution from everybody. If you encounter a bug please file a bug report at http://jira.freeswitch.org or email freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org (we prefer that you use Jira so that we can track all issues). Sometimes bugs are fixed by the time you notice them, if you do encounter a bug you may wish to get a more recent version of the source code and rebuild.

Rebuilding

After doing a “svn update” or changing some source files, you may want to clean out your build area. To ensure that your build is clean, you should execute:

make clean modwipe

Alternatively, you can simply execute “make current” which will handle the svn up, clean up, and rebuild in one step:

make current

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NOTE: make current will take a while as it completely cleans the build environment and rebuilds FreeSWITCH!

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Also, the clean targets leave the “modules.conf” file. To see if there are any new modules you may want to execute

diff build/modules.conf.in modules.conf

Once you are satisfied with your options, follow the build directions above. If you have enabled a module that was not previously enabled, and you want to build just that module, or rebuild one that has changed, you may execute the following:

make mod_name-install

where mod_name is the name of the module you wish to rebuild.

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Prerequisites

In order to build FreeSWITCH™ from the source code, you will need to have several tools installed. The list varies from platform to platform, and are listed here. Some distributions come with these requirements while others require you to obtain them.

Unix-like systems

• SVN: an SVN client gives you access to the current code repository. Alternatively you may select to get a nightly tarball of the source instead of using SVN.
• GNUMAKE: The GNU version of make.
• AUTOCONF: Version 2.50 or higher
• AUTOMAKE: Version 1.70 or higher
• GLIBTOOL: Version 1.5.14 or higher
• GCC: Version 3.95 or higher
• WGET: Almost any version
• LIBNCURSES: Almost any version

Mac OS X

You will need to install the Apple XCode development software (which requires registration, but is free). This should be performed first.

One easy way to install any missing tools is by using Fink. Fink is a MacOS X tool that allows you to download convenient, pre-compiled binaries as well as source code for over 1,700 software packages.

The standard “fink install” includes the 1.5.10 version of glibtool, in order to get the 1.5.14 or later version, you must tell Fink to use the unstable branch (fink.conf man page), which then leads to an automatic download and install of the latest glibtool version.

"fink install svn-client make automake1.9 autoconf2.5 libtool14 wget"

However you install these tools, you will need to make certain they’re on your PATH.

pfSense package with GUI

pfSense FreeSWITCH package is available for pfSense 1.2.1. The package includes a GUI for FreeSWITCH’s configuration. The naming convention for the GUI has been designed to closely match the XML tag names and file names used in the default XML configuration as closely as possible. Install pfSense 1.2.1 based on FreeBSD7, Then go to System -> Packages and click the ‘+’ add button on the right to install FreeSWITCH from the packages list. The package is around 50mb because it includes 8khz, and 16khz sounds and music on hold. After the installation FreeSWITCH will automatically start. By default it will bind to the WAN IP.

To download pfSense 1.2.1 go to: http://www.pfsense.com/

The pfSense FreeeSWITCH package is being used on several live systems on dedicated hardware. It also has been tested and used from VMware and the audio quality is great.

If you already have a firewall in place and just want to use this package as an easy FreeSWITCH install you can turn off the firewall in pfSense by going to System -> Advanced -> Disable Firewall then put a check mark in ‘Disable all packet filtering.’

A pfSense based FreeSWITCH appliance under development and coming soon.

Trixswitch ISO

To work with souce, you will need to install the c++ compiler: yum install gcc-c++ and also for trixswitch v.0.4 (at least) yum install subversion yum install make

After the foregoing are installed, you can use the “svn” i.e. subversion system to download the source as described in the main article, above.

Then, you must run the following files to install automake,autoconf, and libtool:

fixlibtool.sh fixautomake.sh fixautoconf.sh

You can find these scripts in freeswitch/bin/trunk/build/

If you do wind up installing gcc-c++ after an aborted build, you must start back at the beginning with ./configure

Debian Linux

Debian uses the aptitude a.k.a. “apt” package manager. This allows you to quickly and easily install the prerequisites.

aptitude install subversion subversion-tools automake1.9 gcc-4.1 autoconf make wget libtool g++ libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

For Python integration, the following will work. Ensure you update /usr/bin/python to point at /usr/bin/python2.5 afterwards and configure will find a working Python library.

aptitude install python2.5 python2.5-dev

For TLS to work (needed to use Dingaling with gmail.com), also GNUTLS is necessary.

aptitude install libgnutls-dev

The source tree includes a debian/ directory, so you can build a package using standard debian tools. First, do the svn checkout into a directory named after the version in the debian/changelog (i.e. freeswitch-1.0~beta3) or move it there immediately after the svn checkout. Then you still need to start with the ./bootstrap.sh step, and once done you SHOULD NOT move the directory, as explicit paths will have been inserted into some of the Makefiles (don’t run bootstrap.sh if you are going to use the debuild tool since its not needed, it will do it for you).

One of the several ways of then building the package is:

• ensure that you have the devscripts package installed.

• Then (optionally) change the package version to something that includes the SVN version you’re building. This can be done by running dch -i and setting the version to something like: 1.0~beta3-0~svn7245

• Perhaps (if you know what you’re doing) edit the modules to build that are set near the start of debian/rules

• then just run debuild -i -us -uc -b (which might tell you that there are some build dependencies missing, in which case, just install them and try again)

After that, you should have a several .deb files in the directory above the source directory which can be installed with dpkg -i packagename.deb

Experience compiling FreeSwitch 1.0.1

Another way is to first install the “build-essential” package:

aptitude install build-essential

Then run “dpkg-buildpackage” to build all the required .deb files:

dpkg-buildpackage

(Start dpkg-buildpackage in the freeswitch source directory.) dpkg-buildpackage will complain about missing dependencies, use the list of missing packages as indicated above; for example:

aptitude install debhelper automake1.9 autoconf libtool unixodbc-dev libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libperl-dev libgdbm-dev libdb-dev libgnutls-dev

and restart “dpkg-buildpackage” to finish building the Debian packages.

Recommend packages are freeswitch_1.0.1-1_i386.deb and freeswitch-lang-de_1.0.1-1_i386.deb, the packages freeswitch-spidermonkey, freeswitch-lua, freeswitch-perl, freeswitch-sounds-music-8000 and monit are suggested by the base freeswitch package. The package monit have to be installed from the standard repository.

dpkg -i freeswitch_1.0.1-1_i386.deb freeswitch-lang-en_1.0.1-1_i386.deb freeswitch-spidermonkey_1.0.1-1_i386.deb freeswitch-lua_1.0.1-1_i386.deb freeswitch-perl_1.0.1-1_i386.deb freeswitch-sounds-music-8000_1.0.1-1_i386.deb

Installing monit with aptitude:

aptitude install monit

Monit is used to monitor the fs process and restart it if it dies, but it won’t start unless it is configured. First you have to activate it in “/etc/default/monit” with setting the value startup to 1. The second step is to uncomment “set daemon 120″ in /etc/monit/monitrc and add “include /etc/monit/freeswitch.monitrc” in the end of the file. After all you should be able to start monit with the provided init-script.

Note: Once you install the packages (using “dpkg -i freeswitch_1.0.1-1_i386.deb”, etc.), the installation is non-standard since freeswitch will end up in /opt/freeswitch. The configuration files will be in /opt/freeswitch/conf.

For a Novice, Another Debian Way 1.0.2

I also found this guy’s instructions rather very simple for a novice courtsey of http://madhawa.com/?p=10

CentOS

CentOS uses yum as a package manager; the following installs the required prerequisites on a base install of CentOS 5.0 and 5.1.

yum install subversion autoconf automake libtool gcc-c++ ncurses-devel make

Fedora

Fedora also uses yum as a package manager; the following installs the required prerequisites on a base install of Fedora Core 8 and 9.

yum install subversion autoconf automake libtool gcc-c++ ncurses-devel make

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Note: if you are building mod_xml_curl, be aware that the latest Fedora releases have a broken libcurl shipped with yum and you will end up with an unloadable mod_xml_curl module due to missing symbols. You will probably need to configure FreeSWITCH using the –without-libcurl switch, this will make the build process to download and compile its own libcurl version, and then link the mod_xml_curl module with that.

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Gentoo Linux

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The FreeSWITCH ebuild has been removed from the Gentoo voip overlay, please use one of the supported binary-only distributions (or the manual installation method, if it really has to be Gentoo).

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Solaris

Solaris use the jds-cbe environment or fix path to working tr (as per FSBUILD-30).

export PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH

• Use SunStudio 12
• Install SFE (Spec Files Extra)
• Add SFEunixODBC to your Solaris installation

OpenSolaris Nevada

This is the distribution from the opensolaris.org guys, do not mix that up with os200805 which is the new OpenSolaris based distro from SUN.

• Select your development user. I will assume for the time being that the user is called freeswitch.
• Create the target directory for freeswitch

mkdir /opt/freeswitch; chown freeswitch /opt/freeswitch

• Give your build and development user software installation rights

usermod -P "Software Installation" freeswitch

• log out and log back in as the freeswitch user (so that the new permissions become active)

• download and unpack the new jds-cbe beta package:

/usr/sfw/bin/wget http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/cbe/test/desktop-cbe-1.7.0-rc1-x86.tar.bz2
gtar xvfz desktop-cbe-1.7.0-rc1-x86.tar.bz2"

Install JDS-CBE

cd desktop-cbe-1.7.0-rc1
./cbe-install

• leave everything as default. Select the SunStudio compiler as your default compiler.

• Download the spec-files-extra repository into a subdirectory called SFE

svn co https://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk SFE

• Load the jds-cbe environment

. /opt/dtbld/bin/env.sh

• Compile and install SFEunixodbc

cd SFE
pkgtool --download build SFEunixodbc.spec

• Download freeswitch trunk

svn co http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/trunk fstrunk

• Prepare the freeswitch sources

cd fstrunk; ./bootstrap.sh

• and edit the modules.conf file to select which modules you would like to have installed

vim modules.conf

• Configure freeswitch sources for 64bit

CFLAGS=-m64 CXXYFLAGS=-m64 LDFLAGS=-m64 ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeswitch --enable-core-odbc-support \
--enable-core-libedit-support --enable-64 --with-openssl=/usr/sfw

• or for 32bit

CFLAGS=-m32 CXXYFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeswitch --enable-core-odbc-support \
--enable-core-libedit-support --with-openssl=/usr/sfw

• Drink a cup of coffee

• run make :)

gmake

• Install freeswitch into its target directory

gmake install

You are done :)

Windows

Precompiled Binaries

For those that do not want to compile, I’ve put together an MSI install file for Windows (currently SVN 10175 – 10/27/08). Direct link: http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch.msi

This build includes the standard modules and libraries. In addition:

mod_cepstral (if you plan to enable this module you’ll need the Windows release of Cepstral installed).
mod_flite
mod_pocketsphinx
mod_shout
8khz sound files

Before starting up FreeSwitch, make sure you have the Microsoft VC++ 2008 redistributable library installed:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en   (free download)

If you let the MSI install under the default path, it’ll place everything in “C:\Program Files\FreeSWITCH”. The main executable is under this folder, the MSI will setup a program group with a shortcut to this exe.

Also, this build has the mod_cepstral module compiled so if you have the Windows version of Cepstral installed you’ll want to make sure you enable this module (enable it from modules.conf.xml in c:\program files\freeswitch\conf\autoload_configs). If you’re coming from the Asterisk world think of the conf folder as /etc/asterisk. Since most of the config files are built from *nix machines, you’ll probably need Microsoft Word to edit them.

You’ll note there’s a large repository of scripts under the scripts folder. All of these are examples from the src. You might be interested in checking out the wiki page I wrote up on mod_rss. It makes great use of mod_cepstral for TTS tranlations of RSS news feeds. You can replace all the references to /opt/freeswitch on that page to “C:\Program Files\FreeSWITCH”.

Windows quick start

It would probably help to know some basic console commands! Once you launch the FreeSWITCH exe you will be placed in the console. From here:

“help” displays all available console commands.

“sofia status” will display all sip profiles, gateways and their status.

You can drill down and say “sofia status profile internal” to list the internal profile and all registered internal endpoints.

“show channels” will display all active sessions.

“status” gives you uptime information.

“version” will display version information.

“shutdown” will bring down the switch. You cannot exit from the initial console that starts the switch without shutting it down. There is a socket based perl script in scripts/socket folder (fsconsole.pl) which will allow you to remotely connect to the console.

“load <module>” and “unload <module” work similar to the Asterisk equivalent.

“reloadxml” is useful when editing your dialplan and can’t afford to restart the server. Just be aware of some restrictions: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FreeSwitch_FAQ#Q:_Does_reloadxml_reload_all_xml_files.3F

All of the console commands are covered on this wiki page: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_commands#Core_Commands

Finally, the Getting Started wiki page has some useful extensions to try out http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide#Some_stuff_to_try_out.21 The default configuration includes 20 endpoint definitions in prefix\conf\directory\default (1000-1019).xml. More information on endpoints: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide#User_Configuration

See here to configure a trunk (gateway) – http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide#Sample_Gateway_Configuration

And to dial out via your newly created gateway – http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide#Dialing_out_via_Gateway

Finally, receiving inbound calls from your gateway – http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide#Receiving_an_inbound_call_from_a_Gateway

Voicemail via email

A recent svn release of FreeSWITCH includes sending voicemail via SMTP from Windows (this was not possible before). See this page for more information: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Windows_email

Building from source

To compile FreeSWITCH on Windows, you will need Visual C++ 2005 and if you are installing the Express Edition, the platform SDK (see these instructions for more details).