FusionPBX v4.4 Freeswitch v1.6 Debian v8 PostgreSQL Nginx Install Guide

Fusionpbx

Fusionpbx is a full featured mult-tenant GUI for Freeswitch.  This guide covers the installation of Fusionpbx and Freeswitch® with PostgreSQL and Apache on Debian v8. 

Tested on:

Debian v8 (Jessie) x64 minimal install
Freeswitch v1.6
FusionPBX v4
Nginx v1.6
PHP v7.1
PostgreSQL v9.4

Assumptions:

Console text mode (multi-user.target)
Installation done as root user (#)

Install Prerequisites

Set server locale.  This should be done before PostgreSQL is installed.

# Select en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

Logout and log back in to verify.

locale

Install packages

apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt -y remove apache2
apt -y install git nano dbus sudo nginx curl lsb-release memcached sqlite3 postgresql-9.4 postgresql-client-9.4 haveged ghostscript libtiff5-dev libtiff-tools at tftpd ssl-cert fail2ban

PHP

# install this section one line at a time.

apt -y install apt-transport-https ca-certificates
wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
apt update && apt -y install php7.1 php7.1-cli php7.1-common php7.1-curl php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-pgsql php7.1-sqlite3 php7.1-odbc php7.1-xml php7.1-imap php7.1-fpm

Disable Selinux

Check status

sestatus

If command exists and indicates it is not disabled, set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config.  Requires reboot for changes to take effect.

sed -i 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*/\SELINUX=disabled/' /etc/selinux/config

Disable Firewall

It is sometimes helpful to disable the firewall during installation.

systemctl disable firewalld
systemctl disable iptables
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl stop iptables

Set Timezone

Using tzselect is one way to find the correct timezone.

## FIND YOUR TIMEZONE 
tzselect 

## SET TIMEZONE EXAMPLE 
timedatectl set-timezone America/Vancouver

## CHECK TIMEZONE 
​timedatectl status
systemctl restart rsyslog

Install

Freeswitch

curl https://files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/debian/freeswitch_archive_g0.pub | apt-key add -

echo "deb http://files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/freeswitch-1.6/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > \
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/freeswitch.list

apt update && apt -y install freeswitch-all freeswitch-all-dbg freeswitch-sounds* freeswitch-music* gdb

Database

Check that localhost connections are always allowed.  This is necessary for the backup script.

nano +92 /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_hba.conf
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
systemctl restart postgresql

Check PostgreSQL locale

sudo -u postgres psql -l

If Encoding is not UTF8 and Collate & Ctype is not en_US.UTF8 then set it now.

sudo -u postgres psql

update pg_database set encoding = 6, datcollate = 'en_US.UTF8', datctype = 'en_US.UTF8' where datname = 'template0';
update pg_database set encoding = 6, datcollate = 'en_US.UTF8', datctype = 'en_US.UTF8' where datname = 'template1';

Create databases and user

cd /tmp

# Set the DB password variable.
password=somepassword
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE fusionpbx;" 
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE freeswitch;"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE ROLE fusionpbx WITH SUPERUSER LOGIN PASSWORD '$password';"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE fusionpbx to fusionpbx;"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE freeswitch to fusionpbx;"

Fusionpbx

There may be enhancements and fixes in our version that are not be in the official repo.

mkdir -p /etc/fusionpbx
mkdir -p /var/www/fusionpbx
git clone -b 4.4 https://github.com/powerpbx/fusionpbx.git /var/www/fusionpbx

Copy Directories

Replace default freeswitch conf files with fusionpbx conf files
mv /etc/freeswitch /etc/freeswitch.orig
mkdir /etc/freeswitch
cp -R /var/www/fusionpbx/resources/templates/conf/* /etc/freeswitch

Copy music directories to default location

mkdir -p /usr/share/freeswitch/sounds/music/default
mv /usr/share/freeswitch/sounds/music/*000/ /usr/share/freeswitch/sounds/music/default/

Php-fpm config

sed 's#post_max_size = .*#post_max_size = 80M#g' -i /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini
sed 's#upload_max_filesize = .*#upload_max_filesize = 80M#g' -i /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini
systemctl restart php7.1-fpm

Nginx config

mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/powerpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh/master/debian/resources/nginx/fusionpbx
sed -i /etc/nginx/sites-available/fusionpbx -e 's#unix:.*;#unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;#g'

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fusionpbx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/fusionpbx
rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

# link to self signed certificate
ln -s /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/private/nginx.key
ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem /etc/ssl/certs/nginx.crt

# For future use
mkdir -p /var/www/letsencrypt/

systemctl restart nginx

Systemd

Create unit file.

systemctl stop freeswitch
rm -r /run/freeswitch
nano /etc/systemd/system/freeswitch.service
[Unit]
Description=freeswitch
After=syslog.target network.target local-fs.target postgresql.service

[Service]
Type=forking
RuntimeDirectory=freeswitch
PIDFile=/run/freeswitch/freeswitch.pid
Environment="DAEMON_OPTS=-ncwait -nonat"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/freeswitch
ExecStart=/usr/bin/freeswitch $DAEMON_OPTS
TimeoutSec=45s
Restart=always

User=www-data
Group=www-data

LimitCORE=infinity
LimitNOFILE=100000
LimitNPROC=60000
LimitSTACK=250000
LimitRTPRIO=infinity
LimitRTTIME=infinity
IOSchedulingClass=realtime
IOSchedulingPriority=2
CPUSchedulingPriority=89
UMask=0007

; Comment this out if using OpenVZ
CPUSchedulingPolicy=rr

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Create environment file.

cat >> /etc/default/freeswitch << EOF
# Uncommented variables will override variables in unit file
# User=""
# Group=""
# DAEMON_OPTS=""
EOF

Set ownership and permissions

# Set ownership
chown -R www-data. /etc/freeswitch /etc/fusionpbx /var/lib/freeswitch \
/var/log/freeswitch /usr/share/freeswitch /var/www/fusionpbx /var/run/freeswitch

## Set directory permissions to 755 (u=rwx,g=rx,o='rx')
find /etc/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /etc/fusionpbx -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /var/lib/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /var/log/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /usr/share/freeswitch -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

## Set file permissions to 664 (u=rw,g=rw,o=r)
find /etc/freeswitch -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find /etc/fusionpbx -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find /var/lib/freeswitch -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find /var/log/freeswitch -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find /usr/share/freeswitch -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

## Set misc permissions to 755 (u=rwx,g=rx,o='rx')
chmod -R 755 /var/www/fusionpbx/secure

## These two files do not yet exist on a fresh install
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-backup.sh
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-maintenance.sh

Enable services

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable freeswitch
systemctl restart freeswitch
Browse to the public IP address of the server

 http://xx.xx.xx.xx 

to complete the install using the following:

Username: superadmin (or whatever you want)
Password: somesuperadminpassword 

Database Name: fusionpbx
Database Username: fusionpbx
Database Password: somepassword(The database user password created earlier)
Create Database Options: uncheck
Create Database Username: 
Create Database Password : 

The install may take a minute or two. 
Log into the GUI and go to Advanced > Default Settings > Adminer(auto_login) > Enabled = True
Click the Reload button and go to Advanced > Adminer and verify you can view the database. 

Post install tasks are optional but recommended.

Post Install

Enable freeswitch database connection

Freeswitch stores internal data on sqlite by default.  This optional configuration changes that to use PostgreSQL.  This has the advantage of being able to view it in the GUI using Adminer. 

nano +147 /etc/freeswitch/autoload_configs/switch.conf.xml
<param name="core-db-dsn" value="pgsql://hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=freeswitch user=fusionpbx password='somepassword'" />
systemctl restart freeswitch

Configure Firewall

apt -y install firewalld
systemctl enable firewalld
systemctl start firewalld

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service={http,https}
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port={5060,5061,5080,5081}/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port={5060,5061,5080,5081}/udp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=16384-32768/udp
firewall-cmd --reload
firewall-cmd --list-all

Daily Backup and Housekeeping

Backup script

nano /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-backup
#!/bin/sh

db_host=127.0.0.1
db_port=5432
now=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
mkdir -p /var/backups/fusionpbx/postgresql

# Delete postgres backups if older than 4 days
find /var/backups/fusionpbx/postgresql/fusionpbx_pgsql* -mtime +4 -exec rm {} \;

# Delete the main backup if older than 4 days
find /var/backups/fusionpbx/*.tgz -mtime +4 -exec rm {} \;

# Create database backup
pg_dump --verbose -Fc --host=${db_host} --port=${db_port} -U fusionpbx fusionpbx --schema=public -f /var/backups/fusionpbx/postgresql/fusionpbx_pgsql_${now}.sql

# Combine and compress to create the main backup
tar -zvcf /var/backups/fusionpbx/backup_${now}.tgz /var/backups/fusionpbx/postgresql/fusionpbx_pgsql_${now}.sql \
/var/www/fusionpbx /usr/share/freeswitch/scripts /var/lib/freeswitch/storage \
/var/lib/freeswitch/recordings /etc/fusionpbx /etc/freeswitch
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-backup

Housekeeping script

nano /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-maintenance
#!/bin/sh

# Delete freeswitch logs older than 7 days
find /var/log/freeswitch/freeswitch.log.* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

## Uncomment to delete call recordings older than 90 days
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/recordings/*/archive/*  -name '*.wav' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/recordings/*/archive/*  -name '*.mp3' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

## Uncomment to delete faxes older than 90 days 
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/*  -name '*.tif' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; 
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/*  -name '*.pdf' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; 

## Uncomment to delete voicemails older than 90 days
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/voicemail/default/*  -name 'msg_*.wav' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
#find /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/voicemail/default/*  -name 'msg_*.mp3' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;
#psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=fusionpbx -c "delete from v_voicemail_messages WHERE to_timestamp(created_epoch) < NOW() - INTERVAL '90 days'"

## Uncomment to delete call detail records older 90 days
#psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=fusionpbx -c "delete from v_xml_cdr WHERE start_stamp < NOW() - INTERVAL '90 days'"
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/fusionpbx-maintenance

TFTP

If you plan to use hardware SIP phones you may want to enable TFTP.

Create tftp config

cat >> /etc/xinetd.d/tftp << EOF
service tftp
{
protocol        = udp
port            = 69
socket_type     = dgram
wait            = yes
user            = nobody
server          = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args     = /tftpboot
disable         = no
}
EOF

Make the directory and restart the daemon to start tftp.

mkdir /tftpboot
chmod 777 /tftpboot
systemctl restart xinetd
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=69/udp
firewall-cmd --reload

Now go to GUI Advanced > Default Settings > Provision.  About 20 rows down set enabled = Trueand reload

Add a new Subcategory in Provision category by pressing the + icon and fill in as follows:

Category = provision
Subcategory = path
type = text
Value = /tftpboot
Enabled = True

Troubleshooting the Dialplan

To view the dyamically generated xml files.

nano /usr/share/freeswitch/scripts/resources/config.lua
## Change debug options from false to true to see lua generated output in fs_cli
       debug["params"] = true;
       debug["sql"] = true;
       debug["xml_request"] = true;
       debug["xml_string"] = true;
       debug["cache"] = true;
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