FusionPBX is an open-source communication platform that provides a feature-rich and full-featured PBX system. It provides all kinds of communication services such as voice & video calls, voicemail, call recordings, video conferencing, and more. It is easy to install and manage, and is supported on various operating systems.
In this tutorial, we will be installing FusionPBX on the latest version of Alpine Linux. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a fully working instance of FusionPBX that you can use for all your communication needs.
Before installing any system packages or services, it is always a good practice to update the system. To update the system, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
Before installing FusionPBX, we need to install the required system dependencies. Run the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apk add --no-cache git nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-pdo php7-pdo_pgsql php7-pdo_mysql php7-json php7-xml php7-mbstring php7-curl php7-openssl mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-server-utils
Clone the FusionPBX repository from Github using the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx.git /var/www/fusionpbx
Once the repository is cloned successfully, change the ownership of the fusionpbx directory to www-data:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/fusionpbx
FusionPBX uses MariaDB as its database backend. Let's configure MariaDB by running the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
This will prompt you to set a root password for MariaDB, remove the anonymous user, disallow remote root access, remove the test database, and reload privileges.
Create a new database and user in MariaDB for FusionPBX. Run the following commands to log in to the MariaDB shell:
sudo mysql -u root -p
After logging in to the MariaDB shell, create a new database, a user, and grant privileges to the user:
CREATE DATABASE fusionpbx;
CREATE USER 'fusionpbxuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON fusionpbx.* TO 'fusionpbxuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Remember to replace 'password' with a strong password for the fusionpbxuser.
Copy the Nginx configuration file from the fusionpbx directory to the Nginx configuration directory by running the following command:
sudo cp /var/www/fusionpbx/resources/nginx/fusionpbx.nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available/fusionpbx
Then create a symbolic link to the Nginx configuration file in the sites-enabled directory:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/fusionpbx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Open the Nginx configuration file:
sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/fusionpbx
Replace all instances of "example.com" with your domain name or the IP address of your server.
Open the PHP-FPM configuration file:
sudo vi /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/www.conf
Change the user and group directives to "www-data" and "www-data", respectively:
user = www-data
group = www-data
Let's restart our services and check their statuses. Run the following commands:
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php7-fpm restart
sudo service mariadb restart
Check the status of the services by running:
sudo service nginx status
sudo service php7-fpm status
sudo service mariadb status
Open your web browser and access the following URL:
http://<server-ip>/install
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. Once the installation is complete, you will be redirected to the FusionPBX login page.
You have successfully installed FusionPBX on Alpine Linux. With this, you can easily manage communication services, including voice & video calls, voicemail, call recordings, video conferencing, and more.
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