Install FreeSwitch 1.6 on CentOS 7

Introduction

Following this guide you will be able to install freeswitch on centos 7 and test its PBX functionality. Freeswitch is a free telephony platform that operates under a free
software license Mozilla Public License . Its core library is libfreeswitch and it can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other projects. It can be used as a PBX Telefony Server or Soft Switch Server capable of handling thousandas of concurrent calls. Use can use freeswitch for building a PBX Telefony Server with all
of its feautes ( connecting internat phones, IVR, integrating with PSTN networks, configuring VoIP providers, sip trunking etc ), integrating it with other open source web application to built an open source voip switch (including billing, configuring providers and customers).

The steps in this guide require root privileges. Be sure to run the steps below as root or with the sudo prefix.

Before You Begin
1.     Be sure that your CentOS 7 Server is up and runing.

2.     Check your user and make sure that you are root:

whoami

If you see that you are root than go on:

root
If not take sudo privileges by executing the following command:

sudo su

Follow by your root password.

Check centos User and Group Management Tools and How To Become Root

3.     Make sure to check that the server ip up to date byt excuting the following command:

yum -y update

4.     Disable SELinux: Navigate to /etc/selinux/config and modify it as below:

/etc/selinux/config :  SELINUX=disabled

To edit a file in centos please use vi and follow [Vi Guide]

(https://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html)

5.     Reboot your server:

reboot

Install Base Packages

1.     Install Development Tools

yum -y groupinstall "Development tools"

2.     Enable Epel Repository

yum -y install epel-release

3.     Enable Freeswitch Repository

rpm -Uvh http://files.freeswitch.org/freeswitch-release-1-6.noarch.rpm

4.     Update

yum update

Install Freeswitch


1.     Install dependencies for freeswitch

yum install -y git gcc-c++ autoconf automake libtool wget python ncurses-devel zlib-devel libjpeg-devel openssl-devel e2fsprogs-devel sqlite-devel libcurl-devel pcre-devel speex-devel ldns-devel libedit-devel libxml2-devel libyuv-devel opus-devel libvpx-devel libvpx2* libdb4* libidn-devel unbound-devel libuuid-devel lua-devel libsndfile-devel yasm-devel

2.     Navigate to /usr/local/src

cd /usr/local/src

3.     Clone freeswitch version 1.6 from git

git clone https://freeswitch.org/stash/scm/fs/freeswitch.git

4.     Navigate to /usr/local/src/freeswitch

cd /usr/local/src/freeswitch

5.     Execute bootstrap.sh

./bootstrap.sh -j


6.     Enable modxmlcurl,modxmlcdr, mod_perl (If you want to use calling card features)


sed -i "s#\#xml_int/mod_xml_curl#xml_int/mod_xml_curl#g" /usr/local/src/freeswitch/modules.conf
sed -i "s#\#mod_xml_cdr#mod_xml_cdr#g" /usr/local/src/freeswitch/modules.conf

To add a module use have to remove the "#" comment character at the begining of the line. To remove a module we have to add the "#" comment character.

7.     Compile

./configure

8.     Install Freeswitch with sound files

make

make install

make cd-sounds-install

make cd-moh-install

9.     Install mod_perl ( Optional )
sed -i "s#\#languages/mod_perl#languages/mod_perl#g" /usr/local/src/freeswitch/modules.conf

./configure

make

mod_perl-install

10.  Create symbolic links for Freeswitch executables

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

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

11.  Reboot server

reboot

Try It
We are now on a working freeswitch paltform. Let's make some test to be sure that it works.

1.     Check freeswitch status service

freeswitch status

2.     Enter to freeswitch cli

fs_cli

3.     Exit freeswithc cli

/exit

or

/quit

or from keyboard press


ctrl + d

4.     Start freeswitch service

service freeswitch start

or

/etc/init.d/freeswitch start

5.     Stop freeswitch service

service freeswitch stop

or

/etc/init.d/freeswitch stop

6.     Type /help <enter> to see a list of commands

/help