Asterisk Installation Step By Step on Ubuntu

Install Pre-Requisites:
apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool flex bison libssl-dev libnewt-dev libncurses5-dev linux-headers-`uname -r`
apt-get install sox curl subversion subversion-tools
apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev
apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-curl php5-gd php5-json(php5-common) php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-suhosin php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php-pear
apt-get install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork

Setup Accounts:
adduser --system --home /var/lib/asterisk --group asterisk
mkdir /var/run/asterisk
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/run/asterisk

Download Asterisk:

wget ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-1.4.21.1.tar.gz

wget ftp.digium.com/pub/asterisk/releases/asterisk-addons-1.4.7.tar.gz

wget ftp.digium.com/pub/libpri/releases/libpri-1.4.4.tar.gz

Uncompress Asterisk Sources:

tar xzvf asterisk-1.4.21.1.tar.gz

tar xzvf asterisk-addons-1.4.7.tar.gz

tar xzvf libpri-1.4.4.tar.gz

Compile Asterisk Sources:
cd asterisk-1.4.13 && ./configure && make install && make samples && cd -
cd asterisk-addons-1.4.4 && ./configure && make install && cd -
cd libpri-1.4.2 && make && make install && cd -

Setup MySQL:

mysql -u root –p (Enter your password to check if mysql is running properly or not)

mysqladmin -u root password ''
mysqladmin -p create asterisk create asteriskcdrdb
echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asterisk.* TO asterisk@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '';" | mysql -u root –p
echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON asteriskcdrdb.* TO asterisk@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '';" | mysql -u root -p

Configure Asterisk Files:
(/etc/apache2/apache2.conf):
User asterisk
Group asterisk

(/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf):
astrundir => /var/run/asterisk

(/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini):
post_max_size = 20M
upload_max_filesize = 20M

Install PEAR for PHP:
pear install db

Setup Asterisk:

edit /etc/init.d/skeleton

DAEMON=/usr/src/asterisk/asterisk

NAME=Asterisk

DESC="Asterisk PBX"

save file as asterisk in /etc/init.d/

>
chmod +x /etc/init.d/asterisk
/etc/init.d/asterisk start
nano /etc/inittab
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/spool/asterisk/
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk/

Setup FreePBX:
svn co https://amportal.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/amportal/freepbx/branches/2.3/ /usr/src/freepbx
mysql -p asterisk < /usr/src/freepbx/SQL/newinstall.sql mysql -p asteriskcdrdb < /usr/src/freepbx/SQL/cdr_mysql_table.sql cd /usr/src/freepbx

./install_amp

Username to connect to the asterisk database

[asteriskuser]asterisk

Password to connect to the asterisk database

[amp109]

Hostname of Asterisk Database [localhost]

Username to connect to the Asterisk Manager Interface[admin]

Password to connect to the Asterisk Manager interface[amp111]

Path to use for your AMP web root[/var/www/html]

Ip address or hostname used to access the AMP web-admin [xx.xx.xx.xx]

Password to perform call transfer with the flash operator panel[passw0rd]

Use simple Extensions [extensions] admin or separate Devices and Users [devicesandusers]

Directory to store AMP executable scripts [/var/lib/asterisk/bin]

Directory to store super user scripts [/usr/local/sbin]

If it fails running or problem connecting to the database try

./install_amp –username=root –password=[password]

&& cd -

Update Ubuntu Startup Files:
update-rc.d zaptel defaults
update-rc.d asterisk defaults

Setup Zaptel if Required:
(/etc/zaptel.conf)
span=1,0,0,esf,b8zs
bchan=1-23
dchan=24

Load Zaptel Modules:
modprobe zaptel
modprobe wct1xxp
ztcfg -vv

Visit the Web Interface:
http:///html/