This guide assumes that you have already installed Asterisk on your RHEL / CentOS 8 Server.

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Step 1: Disable SELinux

Open file /etc/selinux/config using below command and modify a line from

SELINUX=enforcing

to

SELINUX=disabled

vi /etc/selinux/config

save changes and exit

Now reboot your machine

reboot

Step 2: Install Dependencies

dnf install git wget crontabs cronie tftp-server ncurses-devel sendmail sendmail-cf newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel gtk2-devel subversion kernel-devel @php cronie-anacron vim php-xml sqlite-devel net-tools gnutls-devel unixODBC -y

Install and configure Apache, PHP and MYSQL database

Install Apache webserver

dnf install httpd -y

Now start and enable Apache service on boot.

systemctl start httpd

systemctl enable httpd

Adding apache ports in the firewall.

firewall-cmd --add-port={80/tcp,443/tcp} --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Install PHP and FreePBX required extensions

dnf install php php-common php-gettext php-bcmath php-process php-snmp php-pecl-apcu php-curl php-pear php-gd php-xml php-json php-pcntl php-zip php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-gd php-mbstring php-opcache php-xml -y

Set php maximum file upload size

 vi /etc/php.ini

and set upload_max_filesize = 20M

After that, restart apache and php-fpm service and enable php-fpm on boot

systemctl restart httpd php-fpm 
systemctl enable php-fpm

Install MariaDB

dnf install mariadb-server -y

Start and enable MariaDB service on boot.

systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb

Then you have to complete MariaDB installation

Note: Do not set MariaDB password as it will secure by FreePBX installation Script automatically

mysql_secure_installation

Set root password? [Y/n] n
New password: password
Re-enter new password: password
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

Step 2: Install and configure FreePBX on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8

So, switch into /var/www/html/ directory

cd /var/www/html/

After that, download FreePBX

wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-14.0-latest.tgz

Then, uncompress Downloaded archive and run the installation script

tar xf freepbx-14.0-latest.tgz
cd freepbx
./start_asterisk start

./install -n

Upon successful installation, you will see below screen.

Restart Apache service

systemctl restart httpd

Step 3: Access FreePBX Web Interface

Then, open your browser and browse http://YOUR-SERVER-IP/. You will see the Admin setup page, set you admin user and its password and click on “Setup System”

So, you will be redirected to below screen.

After that, click on “FreePBX Administrator” and you will get below screen, type your login details to access Asterisk FreePBX Admin Panel.

After successful login you will see the following screen, now make your desired configuration and use FreePBX

So, that’s it! You know how to install FreePBX on RHEL 8 and CentOS 8.

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Step 1: Install EPEL 8 Repository

Before proceed to this article, update your system

dnf update -y

Run below command to install EPEL Release 8

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm -y

Step 2: Disable SELinux

Open file /etc/SELinux/config using below command and modify a line from SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled

vi /etc/selinux/config

Then, save changes and exit

Now reboot your machine

reboot

Step 3: Install Dependencies

Install software Development tools and other required dependencies to run Asterisk using following commands.

dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

dnf install git wget net-tools sqlite-devel psmisc ncurses-devel libtermcap-devel newt-devel libxml2-devel libtiff-devel gtk2-devel libtool libuuid-devel subversion kernel-devel kernel-devel-$(uname -r) crontabs cronie-anacron -y

Step 4: Compile and Install Jansson

Jansson is a C library, it is used to encode/decode and manipulate JSON data. run below commands to install it.

cd /usr/src/
git clone https://github.com/akheron/jansson.git
cd jansson
autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix=/usr/
make && make install

Step 5: Compile and Install PJSIP

PJSIP is a free and open-source multimedia communication library written in C language implementing standard based protocols such as SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE. It combines signaling protocol (SIP) with rich multimedia framework and NAT traversal functionality into high-level API that is portable and suitable for almost any type of systems ranging from desktops, embedded systems, to mobile handsets.

run following command to install PJSIP

cd /usr/src/
git clone https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject.git
cd pjproject
./configure CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1" --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-shared --disable-video --disable-sound --disable-opencore-amr
make dep
make
make install
ldconfig

Step 6: Install and Configure Asterisk

All dependencies are installed and Asterisk is ready for installation.

cd /usr/src/
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-16-current.tar.gz
cd asterisk-16*/

Install libedit packages using below commands:

dnf install https://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/29/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/l/libedit-3.1-24.20170329cvs.fc29.x86_64.rpm -y

dnf install https://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/29/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/l/libedit-devel-3.1-24.20170329cvs.fc29.x86_64.rpm -y

Asterisk Configuration

./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64

Step 7: Configure Asterisk Menu Options

Set Asterisk menu options by using the following command, you can also select your desired options.

Here you will use arrow keys (Up, Down, Right and Left) to navigate and Enter key to select the desired option. The selected option will be marked with * symbol.

make menuselect

i Select “app_macro” under Applications section.

ii Under “Add-ons” select “chan_ooh323” and “format_mp3”

iii Under “Core Sound Packages” select the following Audio formats.

CORE-SOUNDS-EN-ULAW
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-ALAW
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-GSM
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-G729
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-G722
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-SLN16
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-SIREN7
CORE-SOUNDS-EN-SIREN14

iv For “Music On Hold” select the following minimal modules

MOH-OPSOUND-WAV
MOH-OPSOUND-ULAW
MOH-OPSOUND-ALAW
MOH-OPSOUND-GSM

v On Extra Sound Packages select as shown below

EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-WAV
EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-ULAW
EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-ALAW
EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-GSM

Then Save and Exit.

Step 8: Build and Install Asterisk

Download the mp3 decoder library into the source tree and build Asterisk

contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh

make
make install
make samples
make config
ldconfig

Step 9: Create Asterisk User and Start Asterisk

Create a group and user for asterisk services, and assign appropriate permissions using following commands

groupadd asterisk
useradd -r -d /var/lib/asterisk -g asterisk asterisk
usermod -aG audio,dialout asterisk
chown -R asterisk.asterisk /etc/asterisk /var/{lib,log,spool}/asterisk /usr/lib64/asterisk

Set Asterisk default user:

edit /etc/sysconfig/asterisk file by using below command

vi /etc/sysconfig/asterisk

and add below lines in this file.

AST_USER="asterisk"
AST_GROUP="asterisk"

Then edit /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf file by using below command.

vi /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf

and add below lines in this file.

runuser = asterisk ; The user to run as.
rungroup = asterisk ; The group to run as.

Step 10: Setup Asterisk service

Now restart asterisk service and enable it on boot

systemctl restart asterisk
systemctl enable asterisk
systemctl status asterisk

Verify that you can connect to Asterisk CLI by running below command

asterisk -rvv

If you entered in above screen congratulation! you have access to Asterisk on CentOS / RHEL.

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