Comments on: Introducing Incredible PBX 11-12 with Incredible GUI for the Ubuntu 14 Platform

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:22:25 +0000

First off let me congratulate you on this fine project. I have been running Asterisk servers for several years and can appreciate all the work that went into this build. I have started to experiment with Digital Ocean as a server platform. I prefer a "cleaner" installation, without all the bells and whistles (think wake-up calls, FAX capability etc) but Digital Ocean dos not presently offer the ability to build a server utilizing an ISO. Yours is the only how-to I have recently experimented with that will produce a functional server. I have build two Digital Ocean VPS systems as experiments and have noticed a few errata you may be interested in. 1. "Create admin password for web apps: htpasswd -b /etc/pbx/wwwpasswd admin newpassword" (does not work, needs a package to implement but the system handy informs you what to load). 2. "Make a copy of your other passwords: cat passwords.FAQ" (no such file in the root directory). The GUI main status page list four connections before anything is operational. Looking further theses are IAX@ peers, iax-fax0 thru 3. I could not find any way to delete these. As I will not implement any FAX capability I would like to see the actual "operational" connections in the GUI main page so I can quickly see if everything is operational. As I mentioned, I prefer a bare server installation that I can then add to vice the "soup to nuts" approach. It's peanuts from the gallery but you may want to consider offering a "cleaner" installation as an option for users who prefer that style of installation. One other observation I can make is the the locking down of the server and client ip address in iptables does not work when using a Digital Ocean droplet unless the server is run 7/24. Each time the Droplet is created from a stored image it gets a new ip address. Additionally, most admin users, especially SOHO (clients), do not have a static ip and since the server is not on the admin LAN this is an issue. Again, a great project, I would appreciate if you could post how to delete the IAX FAX connections. [WM: Thanks for your thoughtful comments. We'll put some of them on our (very long) TO-DO list. The design of FreePBX is such that certain things cannot be scripted after the fact. One of those was IAX modem support. It's harmless, but you can delete the extensions in the GUI.]

By: Nerd Uno

Nerd Uno — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 02:51:53 +0000

A slightly modified install for the Debian 7 (Wheezy) platform is now available as well. Tutorial here.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 02:00:57 +0000

Ward, I want to try your offerings pretty bad, but sourceforge is serving up corrupted images to me on the virtualbox download. Bad luck I’m sure, but can we please get a torrent started somewhere? I’ll be happy to seed it.

[WM: Hi, Shane. Just verified the checksums on the .OVA images, and they look OK. Would love torrents, but you’ve first got to get a clean download. Try another mirror or the SourceForge site itself. There must be a corrupted image on one of their mirrors. Don’t really have an alternate site for hosting a 3GB image. Sorry.]

By: Bill Dengler

Bill Dengler — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 21:11:27 +0000

Could I add the Incredible PBX applications to the FreePBX Distro? Or is the FreePBX Distro no longer supported?

[WM: We do not support the FreePBX Distro and never have. There are several important reasons why. First, Sangoma uses a proprietary version of Linux that is maintained exclusively by Sangoma rather than a worldwide consortium of open source developers. Second, at least the last time we checked, Sangoma provided an unsecured Linux firewall. Think of it as operating a bank and leaving the doors unlocked at night. We don’t think the existing security mechanisms in the GUI are sufficiently robust to stand alone. Third and most importantly, the FreePBX Distro is neither open source nor GPL code. We provide GPL applications for platforms that honor the tenets of the GPL. Whether you wish to add our apps to the FreePBX Distro yourself is, of course, your call to make. ]

By: Bill Dengler

Bill Dengler — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:06:11 +0000

Any idea when Asterisk 12/13 versions of the Incredible GUI/PBX will be released?

[WM: We plan to begin work on Asterisk 12 as soon as we complete the rollout of all of the Asterisk 11 versions and get the remaining kinks out of the code. Shouldn’t be too long. Unfortunately, support for Asterisk 12 goes away at the end of this year. The GUI modules for Asterisk 13 are still in alpha so we probably won’t tackle 13 until there is a more stable GUI product available.]