Maybe someone could help on that. I’ve seen dozens of posts with this same issue on this forum. Here is mine
On a fresh FreePBX 2.1O install on openSUSE (so it’s NOT a FreePBX Distro) I’m getting an error 500 on first access to the web admin panel. My setup:
openSUSE 12.2*
FreePBX 2.10 (donloaded one week ago from this site)
Asterisk 10.11.2 (installed via openSUSE Factory repository)
MySQL 14.14 (openSUSE RPM)
PHP 5.3.15 (openSUSE RPM)
And assorted dependencies (libpri, DAHDI etc) all from openSUSE repositories.
Unfortunately, the FreePBX Distro is not an option in this case, as the ONLY Linux distro we’re allowed to use in this particular client is openSUSE.
I think I’ve followed everything by the book, from installing and running a working (and tested) Asterisk beforehand, creating the right users and databases on MySQL and running the correct SQL scripts to configuring httpd.conf and amportal.conf taking into account openSUSE differences (e.g. DocumentoRoot = /srv/www/htdocs).
The installation script executes with no errors. But, as I said, trying to browse the admin page gives me a blank page on Firefox and IE and an Error 500 on Chrome.
Absolutely no PHP errors are shown on /var/log/messages.
On /var/log/apache2/error_log, the error is:
[Tue Feb 19 21:29:30 2013] [error]
[client 192.168.client.IP]
PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/var/lib/php5
/sess_8n3lt4ch3db491svnlsqie1qauq063isr70vsseol8
o8ggeejv31, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)
in /srv/www/htdocs/admin/config.php on line 69
On line 69 of aforementioned config.php there is only a session_start() function:
// This needs to be included BEFORE the session_start or we fail so
// we can't do it in bootstrap and thus we have to depend on the
// __FILE__ path here.
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/libraries/ampuser.class.php');
session_set_cookie_params(60 * 60 * 24 * 30);//(re)set session cookie to 30 da$
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 60 * 60 * 24 * 30);//(re)set session to 30 d$
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
//start a session if we need one
session_start();
}
Where on Suse are the session stored, normally /tmp, if so does a) php write them there successfully, and b) does your apache2 user have access to them?
# amportal
Fetching FreePBX settings with gen_amp_conf.php..
**** WARNING: ERROR IN CONFIGURATION ****
astrundir in '/etc/asterisk' is set to but the directory
does not exists. Attempting to create it with: 'mkdir -p '
.
mkdir: missing operand
Try 'mkdir --help' for more information.
**** ERROR: COULD NOT CREATE ****
Attempt to execute 'mkdir -p ' failed with an exit code of 1
You must create this directory and the try again.
But ASTRUNDIR is correctly configured.
And the directory really exists!
# rasterisk
Asterisk 10.12.1, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2012 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Running as user 'asterisk'
Running under group 'asterisk'
Connected to Asterisk 10.12.1 currently running on myserver
(pid = 519)
myserver*CLI>
Oh, and my Apache2 user/group is asterisk/asterisk. An ls on /tmp shows that the Asterisk daemon itself is able to write there, so Apache should have no problem with that, I presume.
You might want to get FreePBX by svn as I believe there are a few fixups there that cover a proper install when documentroot is not /var/www/html (redhat style)
So I reinstalled everything (including openSUSE) and moved /srv/www to /var/www and reconfigured Apache to point to the new DocumentRoot.
Woa! It worked! At least, I didn’t get an Error 500.
BUT… the FreePBX admin interface is up and running, but I can’t seem to do anything with it. After I login to the admin page, I’m presented with this gorgeous error:
Symlink from modules failed.
retrieve_conf failed to sym link:
/etc/asterisk/iax.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
/etc/asterisk/sip.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
/etc/asterisk/features.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
/etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
/etc/asterisk/logger.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf from core/etc (Already exists, not a link)
This can result in FATAL failures to your PBX. If the target file exists and not identical, the symlink will not occur and you should rename the target file to allow the automatic sym link to occur and remove this error, unless this is an intentional customization.
Added 6 minutos ago
(retrieve_conf.SYMLINK)
I guessed that pressing the Big Red Button “Apply Config” would solve that, but I’m presented with a modal dialog box saying:
Error!
Error: Invalid response from server
XHR response code: 200 XHR responseText: undefined jQuery status: parsererror
I guess the install script is failing to create the symlinks by itself. An LS in /etc/asterisk shows that the script creates (for instance) an empty sip_additional.conf, but it doesn’t copy the original sip.conf somewhere else, doesn’t remove the original sip.conf and that’s why it can’t create the symlink ponting elsewhere to FreePBX’s sip.conf.
It happens to all the other conf files that are handled by FreePBX.
I have already tried deleting /etc/asterisk and restoring a previous backup, with a functional Asterisk and without FreePBX. Reinstalled FreePBX and no-go.
Everything in /etc/asterisk is owned by asterisk.asterisk.
I’ve found the issue, documenting here to help other adventurous openSUSE lovers.
on /var/lib, there are some directories that are the “homedirs” for some users and processes. When I configured Apache to run as the asterisk user, I correctly chowned /var/lib/apache2 to asterisk.asterisk, but nothing else.
The thing is, PHP sessions are saved in /var/lib/php5, so I had to chown that too.
I discovered that because every time I clicked on a link FreePBX annoyingly asked me for my user/pass again. So the session information was not being saved anywhere - and at that moment I remembered /var/lib.
Well, thanks folks for all your help.
Hope my sweat helps others.
I was too lazy to learn how to use/setup/check out an SVN repo here (last time I worked with version control it was CVS, 12 years ago…) so I just browsed to http://svn.freepbx.org/freepbx/trunk/ and dl everything with wget.
There was a number on the top of the page, but I can’t remember that.
