OpenSIPS Control Panel (OCP) version class 8 - 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?

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

This tutorial assumes that your web directory is /var/www/html/ and the OCP files are located in /var/www/html/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/html/opensips-cp/web>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Require all granted
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/html/opensips-cp>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Require all denied
	</Directory>
	Alias /cp /var/www/html/opensips-cp/web

	<DirectoryMatch "/var/www/html/opensips-cp/web/tools/.*/.*/(template|custom_actions|lib)/">
		Require all denied
	</DirectoryMatch>
	

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/html/opensips-cp/
• for redhat: chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/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 php php-mysql php-gd php-pear php-cli php-apcu
• for redhat: yum install php php-mysql php-gd php-pear php-pecl-apc

Do not forget 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

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.

Creating the OCP tables

Before trying to login into OCP, you must create the tables specific to OCP.

From the opensips-cp/ folder run:

	mysql -Dopensips -p < config/db_schema.mysql
	or
	psql -h host_name -U postgres_username -d opensips < config/db_schema.pgsql
	

This will create the OCP specific tables into the opensips database and add a first access user, the admin user with the opensips password.

Cron jobs

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:

Warning: for security concerns, make sure you replace in the config/tools/system/smonitor/opensips_stats_cron file the username that is running the cron job with a user that has limited capabilities (i.e. replace root with www-data for debian and apache for redhat).

Now simply install the cron jobs by doing:

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