After I wrote this, I realized that I had installed Incredible PBX 11.5, but there is a 12.0 version available. Some of these problems may not apply to version 12. I am installing that instead. A search for the following quoted string will show that there are more than one almost identical instructions available for different versions.
When I did the install on a local physical machine, I noticed some problems. Some of those were minor flaws in the instructions. I have included the fix for the ones that I figured out.
Prior to "Using SSH (or Putty on a Windows machine)..." to log in from another machine, you must do this on the FreePBX machine:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Instead of "log in as root"
sudo su
The commands that end in "*" have been changed in version 12, so the instructions are correct.
Instead of "Configure your correct time zone by running: /root/timezone-setup"
Configure your correct time zone by running: ./root/timezone-setup*
(notice one extra character at the beginning and one at the end)
Instead of /root/admin-pw-change
./admin-pw-change*
I was unable to log in as root. In spite of the dire warnings from Ubuntu developers, I enabled the root account as detailed in the following link, but I still could not log in as root:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
It seems that logging in as root is not really necessary anyway. The only thing I am missing is seeing the status screen, and I can type "status" on the command line to see that.
Since my PBX is on a private network, I should not need to modify iptables, but I did anyway.
I received the following error when restarting iptables:
# -A INPUT -s -j ACCEPT
At first the CLI status screen showed that IPTables was down - DN in red. After a reboot it showed UP in green.
When I did the install on a local physical machine, I noticed some problems. Some of those were minor flaws in the instructions. I have included the fix for the ones that I figured out.
Prior to "Using SSH (or Putty on a Windows machine)..." to log in from another machine, you must do this on the FreePBX machine:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Instead of "log in as root"
sudo su
The commands that end in "*" have been changed in version 12, so the instructions are correct.
Instead of "Configure your correct time zone by running: /root/timezone-setup"
Configure your correct time zone by running: ./root/timezone-setup*
(notice one extra character at the beginning and one at the end)
Instead of /root/admin-pw-change
./admin-pw-change*
I was unable to log in as root. In spite of the dire warnings from Ubuntu developers, I enabled the root account as detailed in the following link, but I still could not log in as root:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
It seems that logging in as root is not really necessary anyway. The only thing I am missing is seeing the status screen, and I can type "status" on the command line to see that.
Since my PBX is on a private network, I should not need to modify iptables, but I did anyway.
I received the following error when restarting iptables:
Fix the error by adding an address, commenting out or deleting the offending line, or perhaps ignore the error:
# -A INPUT -s -j ACCEPT
At first the CLI status screen showed that IPTables was down - DN in red. After a reboot it showed UP in green.
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