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Installing FreeSWITCH 1.10.5 on Ubuntu 18.04 | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Introduction

FreeSWITCH is a software defined telecom stack that runs on any commodity hardware. FreeSWITCH can handle voice, video and text communication and support all popullar VoIP protocols. FreeSWITCH is flexible and modular, and can be used in any way you can imagine

This guide demonstrates how to get it install FreeSWITCH and get it up and running on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine

Prerequisites

To follow along with this guide, you need one Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server which has prerequisite packages installed and configured. In order to install required packages issue following command

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while true; do
    read -p "If you already have compiled FreeSWITCH you will need to manually edit the configure file to set enable_core_odbc_support=yes, are you sure you want to continue? (y/n)" yn
    case $yn in
        [Yy]* ) break;;
        [Nn]* ) exit;;
	* ) echo "Please answer yes to continue to installing ODBC and compiling FreeSWITCH, answer no to abort this process.";;
    esac
done

yum -y install unixODBC-devel mysql-connector-odbc

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• Based on https://techwombat.com/enable-http2-apache-ubuntu-16-04/

• This totorial is for an older Ubuntu 16.04, for a Ubuntu 18.04 please read here --> https://gist.github.com/GAS85/8dadbcb3c9a7ecbcb6705530c1252831 and for a Ubuntu 20.04 please read here* --> https://gist.github.com/GAS85/38eb5954a27d64ae9ac17d01bfe9898c

Requirements

• A self-managed VPS or dedicated server with Ubuntu 16.04 running Apache 2.4.xx.
• For Ubuntu 18.04 please read here --> https://gist.github.com/GAS85/8dadbcb3c9a7ecbcb6705530c1252831
• A registered domain name with working HTTPS (TLS/SSL). HTTP/2 only works alongside HTTPS because most browsers, including Firefox and Chrome, don’t support HTTP/2 in cleartext (non-TLS) mode.