Section 1, Lesson 3 – Installing VitalPBX in a Debian Installation. VPS Installation.
The process to install VitalPBX in an existing minimal installation of Debian is simple. It is not necessary for you to have the desktop or Gnome environment for Debian to install VitalPBX.
This will be the same process to install VitalPBX in any VPS service provider like Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Vultr, among others. You will need to create a new minimal Debian 64-bit- based system.
Once you have Debian installed, you can run a couple of commands.
You will need to log in as the root user, as root permissions are required to run the script. You can also use the “sudo su” command. If your Debian user is not in the sudoers list, you need to add it to be able to run the “sudo su” command. We will take a look into this later on.
First, download the VitalPBX installation script using the following command.
| root@debian:~# wget https://repo.vitalpbx.com/vitalpbx/v4/apt/install_vpbx4.sh |
Next, we will give the script execution permissions.
| root@debian:~# chmod +x install_vpbx4.sh |
Finally, we execute the script.
| root@debian:~# ./install_vpbx4.sh |
Once you execute the script, you will be prompted to enter “yes” to proceed. Enter the word yes in the prompt and press enter.
This will update the system and begin the VitalPBX installation process. In the end, the system will reboot.
Once the system reboots, you can log in again using the root user. You are now greeted with a VitalPBX Logo and system information.
You can copy the IP Address into your web browser and add the admin username and password. This username and password differ from the root username and password or any other user you may have created within Debian.
And with this, you have successfully installed VitalPBX in a Debian-based installation. Congratulations!
Section 1, Lesson 4 – Installing VitalPBX on ARM-based systems.
With VitalPBX being based on Debian with version 4, you can now install VitalPBX in an ARM- based environment.
There is no ISO image based on ARM for VitalPBX, so you will need to start with a minimal Debian 64-bit installation. You can download the ARM64 ISO Network Install image from Debian’s website at https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst.
This also means a Raspberry Pi system can be your VitalPBX server. For this, you’ll flash a microSD card with a Debian or Raspberry Pi OS image.
In this lesson, I am installing VitalPBX on an M1-Max MacBook Pro. You can choose any virtualizer like Parallels or UTM. The process is mostly the same.
The installation process is a regular Debian Installation.
Once the system reboots with ARM Debian installed, log in as root and run the following commands.
| root@debian:~# wget https://repo.vitalpbx.com/vitalpbx/v4/apt/install_vpbx4.sh |
Then give it execution permissions.
| root@debian:~# chmod +x install_vpbx4.sh |
Finally, we execute the script.
| root@debian:~# ./install_vpbx4.sh |
You will then be prompted to continue with the installation, so enter “yes” in the prompt and press enter.
Ref: https://vitalpbx.com/blog/install-a-pbx-system-with-vitalpbx/
