installation_guide:voximal

The Voximal module package install :

  • Voximal V14.x

Supported Linux Distribs :

  • Linux Centos 6 32/64bit
  • Linux Centos 7 32/64bit
  • Linux Ubuntu 14.0
  • Linux Debian 8 32/64bit
  • Linux Raspbian 8 Arm

Dependencies

  • Asterisk 11 to 16
  • FreePBX 12-13 for the GUI/Web configuration interface)
  • Isaabel (tests)

Note : You need to disable linuxSE (if you already installed Asterisk it should already done).

Note : You need the tar and gzip tools already installed on your server.

Then:

  1. You need to be root to process the installation.
  2. Untar the package.
  3. Enter in the directory voximal* created.
  4. Execute the install.sh script and follow the instructions (generaly answer 'y' for each questions).
  5. Check if the script already restarted your Asterisk, if not start your Asterisk,.
  6. When done, you see a new application, or and updated version (CLI> voximal show version).
  7. If you use FreePBX you will see a new items in the web interface to manage the Voximal Application.
[root]# ./install.sh
Module found: app_voximal.so.asterisk_v11.16.0
--- Voximal V14.0 Installation ---
Creating directories
Installing binaries
Installing VoiceXML examples
Installing default voximal.conf
Installing libraries
Installing Voximal module for asterisk
Installing additional sounds
User asterisk exists, set permissions
Restarting asterisk...............................................
--- Voximal V14.0 installation has finished ---
# ./install.sh -h
Usage: ./install.sh [-d DIR ] [-u|-g] [-U user]
  -d : install directory default is root /
  -g : do not install gui modules
  -u : do not generate uid.txt
  -U : user for files permissions
  -h : this help

The best option is to use the option -U in the installation script :

#./install.sh -U user:group

If you want to run Asterisk without using the standard asterisk user, and doing that yourself, follow those steps.

[root]# chown -R user:group /etc/asterisk/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/spool/asterisk/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/lib/asterisk/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/log/asterisk/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/log/voximal/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/cache/voximal/
[root]# chown -R user:group /var/lib/voximal/vxml  #(for local VoiceXML pages)
[root]# chown -R user:group /usr/share/voximal/

Check the deamon script and charge the reference to asterisk:asterisk to the chosen user:group.

Example (with Centos 7 script) :

[Unit]
Description=Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=user  # instead of asterisk
Group=group  # instead of asterisk
Environment=HOME=/var/lib/asterisk
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/asterisk
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/asterisk -f -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'core stop now'
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'core reload'

# safe_asterisk emulation
Restart=always
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If you installation uses the FreePBX interface, you can manage the Voximal configuration/using from there.

Follow the links :

In this mode you had install the Voximal in a standard Asterisk. So you need to configure a dialplan to use the Voximal application.

Follow the links :

You have two simple ways to test and validate your installation :

  • installation_guide/voximal.txt
  • Last modified: 2021/01/28 23:26
  • by javier