Configuration

Enable the daemon.

vi /etc/default/freeswitch

and change the parameter to "true".

FREESWITCH_ENABLED="true"

Start the freeswitch daemon:

/etc/init.d/freeswitch start

Basic configuration is done.

To verfiy if freeswitch is running/listening, run lsof command. You should see freeswitch listening.

lsof -i udp

Configuration layout

Creating a test extension:

Head over to this folder: /opt/freeswitch/conf/directory/default. This folder contains the extensions parameters for the default/Internal profile.

cd /opt/freeswitch/conf/directory/default

We will create an extension 3333 with password 4321.

vim /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/directory/default/3333.xml

Paste this into it.

<include>
  <user id="3333" mailbox="3333">
    <params>
      <param name="password" value="4321"/>
      <param name="vm-password" value="1000"/>
    </params>
    <variables>
      <variable name="toll_allow" value="domestic,international,local"/>
      <variable name="accountcode" value="3333"/>
      <variable name="user_context" value="default"/>
      <variable name="effective_caller_id_name" value="Extension 3333"/>
      <variable name="effective_caller_id_number" value="3333"/>
      <variable name="outbound_caller_id_name" value="$${outbound_caller_name}"/>
      <variable name="outbound_caller_id_number" value="$${outbound_caller_id}"/>
      <variable name="callgroup" value="techsupport"/>
    </variables>
  </user>
</include>

Save & exit.

chown freeswitch:www-data 3333.xml

Configure your hard/softphone & the phone LCD/interface should state that you have 1 registered account. If it doesn't restart the freeswitch or more elegantly reload the configuration of freeswitch.

Reloading configuration. Run this on the freeswitch cli (i.e /opt/freeswitch/bin/fs_cli):

freeswitch@internal> reloadxml

or

/etc/init.d/freeswitch restart

Congratulations. You are done.

Todo:

Trunking/Gateway
DB backend

References:

http://debian.org
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Default_config
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Getting_Started_Guide
http://www.fredshack.com/docs/freeswitch.html
http://freeswitch411.info/forum/index.php?topic=18.0
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Rosetta_stone
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Acl