[Freeswitch-users] Questions before starting new install

Tue Dec 2 07:37:15 MSK 2014

1)      FusionPBX renames Freeswitch default configs after installation, it uses and then creates its own XML files (unless you use their XML handler which writes to db instead). If you then modify XML files directly, the next time you make a change in the GUI they will overwrite your changes. They have an IRC channel #FusionPBX and they use googlecode for svn and issue tracker..

2)      Not sure what scripts you are referring to be dated, FusionPBX scripts have been last modified this month http://fusionpbx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scripts/install/ubuntu/install_fusionpbx.sh

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From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Allison Walters
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 8:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Questions before starting new install

Whoops – accidentally had mail delivery disabled.  So I’ll respond to Moishe’s points with a manual reply/quote:

> 1)      You cannot migrate a working freeswitch to FusionPBX. You would need to recreate all the configs in the FusionPBX web interface.

I didn’t change anything – they were both already installed.  Mind you, I don’t know how the person who installed it did it; maybe that’s related to the issues they were seeing?  Regardless, the Fusion interface seems to read all of the correct info, including when things are changed in the XML files (which is how I was encouraged to do changes…).  Now, I’m confused – Fusion keeps its own copy of the config files?  It’s not just a wrapper that modifies the existing freeswitch ones?  (Just going off what I was told…)

> 2)      Ubuntu install is the same as debian https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Debian if you are going with fusionpbx you would be better off with one of their scripts.

I looked at their script, but it didn’t seem to have been updated since 2012, which makes me a bit nervous.  I’ll take another peek, though.

> 3)      If you are staying with native freeswitch, you can copy over almost all configs to the new server. What version are you migrating from?

The current server is running 1.3.0.

Thanks!

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From: Allison Walters <AWalters at cawst.org<mailto:AWalters at cawst.org>>
Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM
Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Questions before starting new install
To: "freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org<mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org<mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>>
We’re wanting to replace our current freeswitch server (it’s fairly old), and I have a few things I’m curious about before I start trying to build the new one.  I inherited the current one and am relatively unfamiliar to all of this, so I appreciate your patience.

1.       I was told by the consultant that set up the current box that freeswitch doesn’t play well with fusionpbx or really any of the GUI’s – there have been instances (and indeed one happened a couple of months ago while I was here) of the config files getting randomly overwritten with old settings, which supposedly is the fault of trying to run fusion.  Also I was told it doesn’t provide nice clean XML, etc…  I was strongly encouraged to go with no GUI.  If it were just me, I’d be okay with that, but we have a couple of other people who might be helping to maintain the server and they’re far more comfortable with GUIs.  Has anyone else had any of these issues, and/or have any recommendations on the subject?

2.       I’m trying to install on Ubuntu.  When I go to the wiki, I get this page:  https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Linux , which just gives an apt-get line for Ubuntu.  However, that line just seems to have pre-reqs and not freeswitch itself.  Anyone know where I could find current Ubuntu instructions?  I googled but the most recent pages I could find were from 2012, and most were from 2011.  Is that the most up to date?

3.       Are there any guidelines for migration from an old server running an old version to a new server with a current version?

Thank you!

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