elastix install and voip services

August 22, 2013 18.2k views
lorenzololli
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Greetings, Is it possible to installa elastix (linux distribution ww.elastix.org) on your vps? Will voip services work without limitations? The vps has public ip address or nat? Best regards, Lorenzo Lolli
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pablo August 22, 2013
"Is it possible to installa elastix ... on your vps?" Yes.

"Will voip services work without limitations?" For the most part, yes. The only "limitations" I can envision are systemic/environmental limitations beyond DigitalOcean's control.

"The vps has public ip address or nat?" Public IP.

How much does elastix cost? You should check out snom ONE ... multiple layers of solid security protections & they offer a "free" license (limit of 5 extensions, I believe).
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lorenzololli August 22, 2013
Elastix is free.

Thank you for your information! I'm going to try digitalocean vps :)
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lorenzololli August 22, 2013
Just purchased, but the network speed it is so slow. :( I do not think I can use it for voip or any other realtime service :(
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kamaln7 MOD August 22, 2013
What do you mean by slow? Can you please open up a support ticket so we can take a look? Thanks! :]
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lorenzololli August 23, 2013
I confirm it is definitevely slow. I will open a ticket to see if something is wrong.

Just as reference:

[root@centralino ~]# wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Felastix%2Ffiles%2FElastix%2520PBX%2520Appliance%2520Software%2F2.4.0%2F&ts=1377188051&use_mirror=kent"
--2013-08-22 16:15:31-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Felastix%2Ffiles%2FElastix%2520PBX%2520Appliance%2520Software%2F2.4.0%2F&ts=1377188051&use_mirror=kent
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso [following]
--2013-08-22 16:15:31-- http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso
Resolving kent.dl.sourceforge.net... 212.219.56.185
Connecting to kent.dl.sourceforge.net|212.219.56.185|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 687478784 (656M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso'

11% [=================> ] 75,815,549 --.-K/s in 46m 51s

2013-08-22 17:02:23 (26.3 KB/s) - Read error at byte 75815549/687478784 (Connection timed out). Retrying.

--2013-08-22 17:02:24-- (try: 2) http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso
Connecting to kent.dl.sourceforge.net|212.219.56.185|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 687478784 (656M), 611663235 (583M) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso'

24% [++++++++++++++++++======================> ] 169,714,426 218K/s in 25m 31s

2013-08-22 17:27:55 (59.9 KB/s) - Read error at byte 169714426/687478784 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.

--2013-08-22 17:27:57-- (try: 3) http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso
Connecting to kent.dl.sourceforge.net|212.219.56.185|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 687478784 (656M), 517764358 (494M) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso'

25% [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ] 172,822,934 524B/s in 12m 49s

2013-08-22 17:40:54 (3.95 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 172822934. Retrying.

--2013-08-22 17:40:57-- (try: 4) http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/elastix/Elastix%20PBX%20Appliance%20Software/2.4.0/Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso
Connecting to kent.dl.sourceforge.net|212.219.56.185|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 687478784 (656M), 514655850 (491M) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `Elastix-2.4.0-Stable-x86_64-bin-04feb2013.iso'

82% [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++===============================================================================================> ] 566,197,850 2.75K/s eta 13m 57s

So many errors and hours to download one ISO. Please consider that the host is sourceforge.
In the meantime, the ssh connection was lagged, sometimes I've to wait several seconds just for typing in.
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pablo August 23, 2013
I'm no expert, but that sounds like abnormal behavior.

What kind of latency are you experiencing?

If you scroll down to the bottom of the FAQs page, you'll find links to run some speed tests.
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kamaln7 MOD August 23, 2013
What's the output of this command? 

curl -s https://kmlnsr.me/speedtest.sh | bash
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holger.rothemund September 12, 2013
Anyone successful on installing elastix on Digitalocean yet?
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juresco September 18, 2013
Im also eager to know how to install elastix in digital ocean, if someone successfully did it... please please please let us know, i'll subscribe to this thread...
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grisales September 18, 2013
I'm working on it rigth now following this old setup guide in a droplet Centos 5.8 (32b)

[http://elastix.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how-to_install_elastix_from_centos5]

I'll kepp you guys posted if this goes trough! XD

So far so good...
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grisales September 19, 2013
Nope... no luck...

Ok everything went fine untill i got this message after run this instruction [yum -y update]

Error: Missing Dependency: libss7.so.1 is needed by package 2009020507:asterisk-11.5.0-0.i386 (elastix-updates)

Skipped (dependency problems):
asterisk.i386 2009020507:11.5.0-0
asterisk-addons.i386 2009020507:11.5.0-0
asterisk-devel.i386 2009020507:11.5.0-0
asterisk-sounds-es.i386 2009020507:11.5.0-0
asterisk-sounds-fr.i386 2009020507:11.5.0-0
libgsmat.i386 0:2.0.7-0
libwat.i386 0:1.0.24-0

never the less i tryed to keep going on and well... i can access the webmin but never got the elastix to run (¬_¬)'
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ceoprivate October 7, 2013
I got it to run fine... just working on CDR now
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pablo November 22, 2013
Check out: How To Install FreePBX on CentOS 6.4.
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cesynw November 22, 2013
una ayuda para instalar ASTERISK
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kcarter December 14, 2013
Better yet, dump it for Sipx. You will be much happier overall. I have been running Sipx on VPS will full failover for years.
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jaminmc April 6, 2016

This may of been an old post, but there is a perfect way to install Elastix 4 on Centos 7 on Digtal Ocean. It is on my Github. I have it running on my Server on DigitalOcean :)

https://github.com/thpryrchn/Elastix4onCentos7vz

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  • evaldasjankus January 2, 2018

    Hi. I have tried the guide all seems to be installing fine, but in any case I can not access web gui.
    All the time I am trying to enter my droplets IP address I am getting "refused to connect" . There must be something I am missing. Do you have any insight about what I might be missing? Is there any line commands that would help check things?

  • bournakasp February 1, 2018

    i also managed to install Elastix4 on Digitcal Ocean, but did you try to work with some trunk and voip number?
    I try to make call to conference room and says error about dahdi and my softpone hang up immediately.

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