[Asterisk-bsd] FreePBX on FreeBSD

[Ian FREISLICH]

Doug Barton wrote:
> I'm working on a FreeBSD port of FreePBX. I've seen the posts from Kurt
> and Ian about their success in getting it running, so I'm hopeful, but
> I've run into a lot of problems.

Let me know how I can help.  I see this a greatly advantageous.
There are some mods that I'd like to contribute back to the FreePBX
project that will improve portability.

> My approach so far has been massive amounts of sed to try and get the
> paths in the various scripts to match what FreeBSD ports usually do.
> I've been partially successful in getting install_amp to run, and I've
> gotten to the point that it's starting to run the update scripts in
> freepbx-2.9.0/upgrades/ and I've hit a snag. It wants to connect to
> something like this:
> 
> $astman = new AGI_AsteriskManager();
> if ($res = $astman->connect("127.0.0.1", $amp_conf["AMPMGRUSER"] ,
> $amp_conf["AMPMGRPASS"])) {

This is a connection to the asterisk manager port.  You do need it
because that is how FreePBX gathers various bits of run time data
from asterisk, as well as applying configuration and reloading.

The manager config is in $prefix/etc/asterisk/manager.conf

You can protect it with an ACL and password:

Mine:
---X---
;
; Asterisk Call Management support
;
[general]
enabled = yes
port = 5038
bindaddr = 127.0.0.1

[admin]
secret = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit=127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0
read = system,call,log,verbose,agent,user,config,dtmf,reporting,cdr,dialplan
write = system,call,agent,user,config,command,reporting,originate
---X---

and setting the following in ampportal.conf
AMPMGRUSER=admin
AMPMGRPASS=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> I'm also curious if anyone who has this running sees serious flaws in

Now, I'm curious... what flaw do you see?

Ian

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Ian Freislich