On 26/11/14 10:22, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 25 November 2014 at 17:57, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
You might like to take a look at FreePBX (http://www.freepbx.org/).
That is the way I have been leaning (and I have had a couple of unsuccessful attempts at installing on Ubuntu).
I wasted a lot of time trying. I sort of got it working, but decided to give up and try the ISO for FreePBX. The difference was amazing, with a LOT more stuff enabled via the ISO. Thereafter, it was a no-brainer.
It's CentOS based, which is a pain if you hate RPM-based distros (which I do), but there are destructions kicking around for installing it in Ubuntu. I tried that about a month ago and gave up as it was a time-sink and fairly pointless. I just installed the default in a VM and it works fine with Soho66.
OK, that sounds like a plan. Except that what I really want to achieve is have it running in a hosted VM somewhere which means installing from tarball. Hopefully it'll be straightforward if I pick a CentOS VM to start from though.
Most decent VM companies will "mount" a specific ISO for you to boot from if you ask them. For instance, they rarely offer Gentoo by default, so I ask and they sort it. I've been using these people happily for years: http://www.pcsmarthosting.com/ and they have always been happy to do that for me.
It's very comprehensive, so quite a learning curve!
I don't mind learning (in fact that's part of the reason for doing it), I just don't want to mess around with the installation process!
I'd be much happier with apt-get install freepbx (or yum install freepbx) if only so that the distro has responsibility for security patching, though.
For now, my advice is stick with the packaged CentOS distro. There isn't very much need to actually use the OS itself. I think all I did was sort out SSH access.
Cheers, Laurie.