Paul Maunders | Web log

Here’s some instructions on how to get Askozia PBX running on a virtual machine with VirtualBox on OSX.
1)  If you haven’t already, download and install VirtualBox.
2) Download the Askozia disk image that you want to use. I’m using the latest Linux port release at the time of writing (r1161)
3) Uncompress the image, and then convert [...]

I’ve been testing out a few free PBX distributions, and the most recent one I’ve tried is called Fonica PABX. It’s basically a bundle of Centos, Asterisk, FreePBX, and some other asterisk modules that are wrapped together with a nice installer system.
Step 1 – Install Fonica PABX

Download the latest ISO and burn it to a [...]

I was experiencing an error during an installation of Trixbox 2.6.2.2 whereby it would lock up with a blue screen after the keyboard language selection / probing video card steps. Initially I thought it was a faulty CD, but after burning 3 copies with 2 computers, I would get the same problem every time.
This thread [...]

I had been having problems making external calls from my asterisk box. When I initially set it up, I used the asterisk-gui to setup a service provider for outgoing calls. This automatically appended the following context to extensions.conf

[numberplan-custom-1]
plancomment = Default DialPlan
include = default
include = parkedcalls
exten = _0XXXXX!,1,Macro(trunkdial,${trunk_1}/${EXTEN:0},${trunk_1_cid})
comment = _0XXXXX!,1,test,standard

However, since the default context for users [...]

I was having trouble getting an inbound IAX connection to connect successfully to test my asterisk box. The asterisk console was showing the following error:

Rejected connect attempt from 213.166.5.129, who was trying to reach ‘448448160404@’

After some hacking around it turns out that the username in the IAX address must match the [header] name in [...]

In preparation for the launch of a new Fubra VOIP service later this year, I decided that it would be wise if I knew a little more about asterisk (our chosen PBX software). Although I’m not building the underlying phone system (we have an asterisk expert working on that), nor the user control panel (our [...]

Tonight I had a go at installing Digium’s asterisk-gui. I followed some instructions from Asterisk Guru, but then had to apply a fix at the end because the static-http folder was in the wrong place.
Installation Instructions
Download the asterisk-gui source code from SVN:

mkdir -p ~/downloads/asterisk-gui
cd ~/downloads/asterisk-gui
svn checkout http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/trunk .

Compile the source code:

./configure
./make
./make install

Backup your asterisk config:

cp [...]

If you install Asterisk on Ubuntu via apt-get, and then remove it and re-install again, you may find that you are missing the all the config files in /etc/asterisk.
This is a bug in the debian asterisk package that means that the config files are deleted when you remove the asterisk package even though they are [...]