OpenSIPS Control Panel (OCP) Installation Guide

OpenSIPS Control Panel has been tested and developed mostly on Debian and Redhat Linux , but, being a web portal qualifies it to work also with other Linux distros and operating systems as well. Most of the paths and commands in this INSTALL guide are be debian/redhat specific.

What do you need for running OCP?

A web server (this tutorial focuses only on Apache Web Server)
PHP and some of it's extensions
A DB server (mysql/postgres/sqlite/oracle etc)

This tutorial assumes that your web directory is /var/www/ and the OCP files are located in /var/www/opensips-cp/ folder. Your web directory may depend on your Operating System or on the used web server.

Apache

Install Apache

Depending on your Linux distro, do:

Debian-like: apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php php-curl
Redhat-like: yum install httpd

Configure Apache

Add the configuration below into one of Apache's existent VHOSTs or create a new one.

	<Directory /var/www/opensips-cp/web>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/opensips-cp>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order deny,allow
		deny from all
	</Directory>
	Alias /cp /var/www/opensips-cp/web

You can read more about Apache's VHOSTS here.

File permissions

Apache is going to need write permissions on some files / folders in the opensips-cp directory, so you can do:

for debian: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/opensips-cp/
for redhat: chown -R apache:apache /var/www/opensips-cp/

PHP

You must have PHP installed and enabled in the web server. In order to do that you will have to install php and some of it's extensions.

for debian: apt-get install php5 php-gd php-mysql php-xmlrpc php-pear php-cli php-apcu
for redhat: yum install php php-gd php-mysql php-xmlrpc php-pear php-pecl-apc

NOTE: php7 is not supported by this version of OCP!!!!

Check if these extensions are enabled :

for debian check /etc/php5/conf.d/ for mysql.ini, gd.ini, xmlrpc.ini
for redhat check /etc/php.d/ for mysql.ini, gd.ini, xmlrpc.in

If these are not there plese check if you have installed them correctly.

Do not forget to set in your php.ini (usaully /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini ) :

	short_open_tag = On ;

MDB2 pear needs to be installed with the appropriate DB driver (mysql / postgresql / mssql / sqlite etc.)

	pear install MDB2
	pear install MDB2#mysql //should you choose to go with the mysql database
	pear install log

Do not forge to restart Apache after all the php changes!!!

Database server

The OpenSIPS Control Panel requires access to database for two purposes:

OCP related data, like login users and permissions, additional data related to some tools (like statistics to be monitored, etc)
OpenSIPS data, access to the OpenSIPS data to allow OCP to provision different OpenSIPS modules

While for the first case you need to create some extra table (usually you can create them directly into the opensips database), for the OpenSIPS database you need to configure only the aceess info (see the configuration chapter).

The OpenSIPS Control Panel can connect to a remote database server, so the DB server can be used from the SIP Server machine or another machine in the network.

User access and privileges

For the admin tools (create and list) you must add a new table. The admin users are the login users into OCP.

Install the ocp_admin_privileges table schema (we only provide the schema for mysql and pgsql). From the opensips-cp/ folder run:

	mysql -Dopensips -p < config/tools/admin/add_admin/ocp_admin_privileges.mysql
	or
	psql -h host_name -U postgres_username -d opensips < config/tools/admin/add_admin/ocp_admin_privileges.pgsql

This will create the ocp_admin_privileges table into the opensips database. Next step is to insert a first login user into the table (user 'admin' with password 'admin' with full privileges):

	INSERT INTO ocp_admin_privileges (username,password,first_name,last_name,ha1,available_tools,permissions) values ('admin','admin','Admin','Istrator',md5('admin:admin'),'all','all');

Statistics Monitor tool

For the Statistics Monitor (smonitor) tool you must add two tables to the OpenSIPS database:

	mysql -Dopensips -p < config/tools/system/smonitor/tables.mysql
	or
	psql -h host_name -U postgres_username -d opensips < config/tools/system/smonitor/tables.pgsql

In order to allow OCP to sample the statistics from the OpenSIPS boxes, you need to install some cron jobs. First edit the config/tools/system/smonitor/opensips_stats_cron file and change/correct the path to your OpenSIPS Control Panel installation:

Now simply install the cron jobs by doing:

	cp config/tools/system/smonitor/opensips_stats_cron /etc/cron.d/

NOTE: you may need to restart the cron service at this point.