Asterisk install on Debian 12

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Asterisk installation in Debian 12 along with ODBC and FastAGI

Step 1: ODBC

Install MySQL 8.0

For detailed steps, follow: https://forum.devsach.in/discussion/87

apt update
apt install mysql-server

Install ODBC

For detailed steps, follow: https://forum.devsach.in/discussion/9

apt install unixodbc-dev unixodbc odbcinst mysql-connector-odbc

Edit nano /etc/odbc.ini

[asterisk-connector]
Description = MySQL ODBC 8.0 ANSI Driver

# Get Driver name from cat /etc/odbcinst.ini
Driver = MySQL ODBC 8.2 ANSI Driver
Database = asterisk
User = root
Password = Password#123
Server = localhost
Port = 3306
# Get socket path from cat /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Test your connection

isql -v asterisk-connector

Step 2: Installing Asterisk

Note: if required ODBC, then complete step

apt -y install build-essential git curl wget libnewt-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev subversion libsqlite3-dev libjansson-dev libxml2-dev uuid-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev
wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-20-current.tar.gz
tar -zxvf asterisk-20-current.tar.gz
mv asterisk-20.5.2 asterisk
cd asterisk/
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
./configure --with-pjproject-bundled --with-crypto --with-ssl=ssl --with-srtp --with-jansson-bundled

make menuselect
make
make install
make samples
make config
ldconfig

systemctl status asterisk
systemctl start asterisk
systemctl status asterisk

Step 3: FastAGI

Install php

For detailed steps, follow: https://forum.devsach.in/discussion/83

apt update
apt install php7.4
apt install php7.4-zip php7.4-curl php7.4-json php7.4-xml php7.4-posix php7.4-mysqlndl php7.4-gd php7.4-process php7.4-curl php7.4-mbstring php7.4-pdo php7.4-pgsql

Install xinetd server

For detailed steps, follow: https://forum.devsach.in/discussion/8

apt install xinetd ngrep net-tools

Download the latest PHP-AGI library

cd /usr/src
wget https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/phpagi/phpagi/2.20/phpagi-2.20.tgz
tar -zxvf phpagi-2.20.tgz
cd phpagi-2.20
cp -r ./* /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
chmod -R 777 /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/

# For custom agi files
mkdir /var/lib/asterisk/fastAGI/
chmod -R 777 /var/lib/asterisk/fastAGI/

# also ensure that the executable path of php is correct in
# /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/phpagi-fastagi.php
# #!/usr/bin/php -q
# or get it from command: which php

Edit nano /etc/xinetd.d/fastagi

# default: off
# description: fastagi is a remote AGI interface
service fastagi
{
    socket_type  = stream
    user         = root
    group        = root
    server       = /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/phpagi-fastagi.php
    wait         = no
    protocol     = tcp
    bind         = 127.0.0.1
    disable      = no
}

Create phpagi.conf nano /etc/asterisk/phpagi.conf

[phpagi]
debug=true
error_handler=true
tempdir=/var/spool/asterisk/tmp/

[asmanager]
server=localhost
port=8753
username=RTrep
secret=RTreprt

[fastagi]
setuid=true
basedir=/var/lib/asterisk/fastAGI/

Adding the service, edit nano /etc/services and following to the end line

fastagi         4573/tcp                # Asterisk AGI

Restarting xinetd server

systemctl restart xinetd
systemctl status xinetd