Asterisk + FreePBX + Google Voice on DNS-323

Posted on Jan 14, 2010 by Roland2 Comments

Step 3. Install PHP, MySQL, Python and Lighttpd

Usually people use Apache with FreePBX, but DNS-323 is just not powerful enough to handle it. In fact, it can barely handle Lighttpd. But we shutdown Lighttpd after we finish configure everything.

dlink-xxx:# apt-get install lighttpd mysql php5 php-pear php-mysql python python-setuptools

First we configure Lighttpd to support PHP:

dlink-xxx:# nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Change

server.username  = "asterisk"
..
..
#I use 81 since 80 has been occupied by DNS-323's web interface.
server.port ="81"

You can change “server.document-root” if you want to use a custom location. But make sure you remember to use this location in the steps followed.

Now we add the configuration for Fast-CGI support

dlink-xxx:# nano /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/10-fastcgi.conf

Put these in

## FastCGI programs have the same functionality as CGI programs,
## but are considerably faster through lower interpreter startup
## time and socketed communication
##
## Documentation: /usr/share/doc/lighttpd-doc/fastcgi.txt.gz
##                http://www.lighttpd.net/documentation/fastcgi.html
 
server.modules   += ( "mod_fastcgi" )
 
## Start an FastCGI server for php (needs the php5-cgi package)
fastcgi.server    = ( ".php" =&gt;
        ((
                "bin-path" =&gt; "/usr/bin/php-cgi",
                "socket" =&gt; "/tmp/php.socket",
                "max-procs" =&gt; 2,
                "idle-timeout" =&gt; 20,
                "bin-environment" =&gt; (
                        "PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" =&gt; "4",
                        "PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS" =&gt; "10000"
                ),
                "bin-copy-environment" =&gt; (
                        "PATH", "SHELL", "USER"
                ),
                "broken-scriptfilename" =&gt; "enable"
        ))
)

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2 Responses to “Asterisk + FreePBX + Google Voice on DNS-323”

John Timmers
January 15th, 2010 at 6:35 AM

Wow, great tutorial! Makes it really clear, the steps you’ve taken. It’s actually deterred me from doing it on my own dns-323, which I’m using primarily now, as a torrent client/server ( I was using it a a backup/fileserver for our home computer network, but realized pretty quickly it just didn’t have the horsepower to do what I wanted it to do). That said, it’s as reliable as a hammer, in that it will run for months without a hiccup (installed funplug on it almost immediately after unboxing it a couple years ago).

After reading about your experiences, and the instructions on the nerdvittles site, I think I’m going to buy one of those low power acer revo boxes, and install pbx-in-a-flash on it. I think they have enough power to do what you’ve done on the dns-323, and media-centre as well

Thanks again for the writeup!
rolandli
January 15th, 2010 at 8:36 AM

Thanks. But this is not something original, I just put those pieces together specifically for DNS-323.

I use my DNS-323 mostly as a media server, occasionally for Bittorrent. But the built-in BT client is very limited and crashes often. So I siwtched to rTorrent. I can turn it on and off as I wish.

The Acer Revo is a great machine. It’s cheap, even cheaper if you go the Ubuntu route. I was considering getting one as a HTPC. But I do want Blu-Ray capability and Atom is just not gonna cut it.

D-Link has a 4-Bay NAS DNS-343, that maybe my next NAS since the 2TB on my DNS-323 is running out soon…