A2Billing Install guide

This guide will show how to install A2Billing on a Redhat Enterprise Linux based system.  It is assumed you already have Linux and Asterisk and FreePBX installed using a procedure similar to this one.  We do not cover the installation of the callback daemon.

This guide was tested using the following software:

CentOS Linux v5
Asterisk v1.8.5
FreePBX v2.9
A2Billing v1.9.4

The following 2 diagrams illustrate A2billing inbound and outbound call flow.

All commands are assuming you are at run level 3 running in a shell as root.  In other words, not in a Gnome/KDE GUI and not using a limited access account.

PHP 5.2 is required and available via the CentOS 5 testing repository.  We shall create the testing respository file and configure it to only pull PHP packages.

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-testing.repo

and add the following:

cd /usr/src
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/Star2Billing/a2billing/tarball/v1-current
dir

Note the filename of the downloaded file and use it as follows:

tar zxvf Star2Billing-a2billing-v1-current-x-xxxxxx.tar.gz

Replace the 'x..x' with whatever the actual file name is called.
Rename the directory

mv Star2Billing-a2billing-xxxxx a2billing

Prepare MySQL database

cd /usr/src/a2billing

If you did not create a mysql root password during the asterisk install you should create one now.
mysqladmin -u root password 'rootmysqlpassword'

If you get access denied the password has already been set.  For PowerPBX install guide a password of 'abcdef' was used.  For distributions such as PiaF, the password is 'passw0rd'.  This will be the password the following commands will ask for.

mysql -u root -p < DataBase/mysql-5.x/a2billing-createdb-user.sql

which will create:
Database name: mya2billing
Database user: a2billinguser
Database user password: a2billing

Now run script to create tables and insert some basic configuration data

cd /usr/src/a2billing/DataBase/mysql-5.x
./install-db.sh

Answer questions as follows:
Enter Database Name: mya2billing
Enter Hostname: localhost
Enter UserName: root
Enter Password: 'mysqlrootpassword'

Now check that the database and 90+ tables have been created

mysql -u root -p mya2billing

>show tables;

>exit

cp /usr/src/a2billing/a2billing.conf /etc/
nano /etc/a2billing.conf

Make sure the following parameters are set as shown.

Run sound installation script

cd /usr/src/a2billing/addons/sounds
./install_a2b_sounds.sh
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/

Add the following to /etc/asterisk/manager_custom.conf
You can also do it via the FreePBX Asterisk API module. 

[myasterisk] 
secret=mycode 
deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
permit=127.0.0.1/255.255.255.0
read=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user 
write=system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user

mkdir /var/www/html/a2billing
cp -Rf /usr/src/a2billing/admin /var/www/html/a2billing/admin
cp -Rf /usr/src/a2billing/agent /var/www/html/a2billing/agent
cp -Rf /usr/src/a2billing/customer /var/www/html/a2billing/customer
cp -Rf /usr/src/a2billing/common /var/www/html/a2billing/common

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