Installing FreePBX on debian 12 on a MiniMac 7,1 - other software on debian?

FreePBX System Administration
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Hey All,

I’ve successfully installed Debian 12 on my older minimac 7,1.

It was fairly painless - the worst bit was the 4 attempts to install Debian 12 before swapping from an SD Card installer to a USB drive (still SD Card) install… Once it was USB it installed perfectly.

I’m looking at installing ddns on debian too - I’m assuming I can install other debian software on the machine and it wont affect the freepbx?

We are a tiny new start up - 2 extensions, will be 3 next week, maybe 20 incoming calls a week and maybe 10 outgoing calls a week however the 3rd extension is being set up for a marketing outreach so the number of outgoing calls will increase - but its certainly not a call center. I installed the wifi driver but its showing no hardware installed - however its going to be ethernet to the switch anyway so thats no real biggy.

Is there anything I should be aware of if installing other software?

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That is not a good assumption. Rather you should assume that anything you install on the server may affect FreePBX so you have to choose carefully. Installing a DNS server and tools should be fine. But FreePBX controls the web server (Apache httpd), PHP version (fixed at 8.2), and numerous other things. It also implements a firewall. It assumes it is the only application on the server.

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Hmmm, tbh I’m happy to let it be its own system - I’m actually currently arguing with getting it to connect to my trunk so it doesn’t have to do anything else than be a pbx - it was just one of those thoughts of ‘oh, what else can I get it to do haha’