Move freepbx from being hosted at pbx.lan to <ip>:8888

roles/network/tasks/hosts.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   lineinfile:
     path: /etc/hosts
     regexp: '^172\.18\.96\.1'
-    line: '172.18.96.1     {{ iiab_hostname }}.{{ iiab_domain }} {{ iiab_hostname }} box box.lan pbx pbx.lan'
+    line: '172.18.96.1     {{ iiab_hostname }}.{{ iiab_domain }} {{ iiab_hostname }} box box.lan'
     state: present
   when: iiab_lan_iface != "none" and not installing
 

roles/network/templates/gateway/iiab-gen-iptables

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ minetest_port={{ minetest_port }}
 mosquitto_port={{ mosquitto_port }}
 nodered_port={{ nodered_port }}
 pbx_enabled={{ pbx_enabled }}
+pbx_http_port={{ pbx_http_port }}
 pbx_signaling_ports_chan_sip={{ pbx_signaling_ports_chan_sip }}
 pbx_signaling_ports_chan_pjsip={{ pbx_signaling_ports_chan_pjsip }}
 pbx_data_ports={{ pbx_data_ports }}
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ if [ "$wan" != "none" ]; then
         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport $nodered_port -m state --state NEW -i $wan -j ACCEPT
 
         if [ "$pbx_enabled" == "True" ]; then
+            $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp --dport $pbx_http_port -m state --state NEW -i $wan -j ACCEPT
             $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p udp --dport $pbx_signaling_ports_chan_sip -m state --state NEW -i $wan -j ACCEPT
             $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p udp --dport $pbx_signaling_ports_chan_pjsip -m state --state NEW -i $wan -j ACCEPT
             $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p udp --dport $pbx_data_ports -m state --state NEW -i $wan -j ACCEPT

roles/pbx/README.rst

@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ Optionally, you may want to enable `chan_dongle <https://github.com/wdoekes/aste
 
   asterisk_chan_dongle: True
 
-After installing PBX as part of IIAB, please visit http://pbx.lan/freepbx and proceed with initial configuration (no login/password is required initially — you will be asked to set this up).
+After installing PBX as part of IIAB, please visit http://box.lan:8888/freepbx and proceed with initial configuration (no login/password is required initially — you will be asked to set this up).
-
-**CAUTION: it is sometimes necessary to put "[ACTUAL IP ADDRESS] pbx.lan" into the 'hosts' file on the client machine (where the browser is being used) to get http://pbx.lan/freepbx to work.**  This file is ``/etc/hosts`` on Linux and macOS, or ``c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts`` on most Windows machines (conversely, customizing the hosts file is *not* necessary if your browser is able to access the `'LAN' side <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Networking#internet-in-a-box-iiab-networking>`_ of your IIAB server).
 
 You can monitor the FreePBX service with command::
 

roles/pbx/defaults/main.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 # pbx_signaling_ports_chan_sip: "5160:5161"
 # pbx_signaling_ports_chan_pjsip: "5060"
 # pbx_data_ports: "10000:20000"
-
+# pbx_http_port: 8888
+#
 # All above are set in: github.com/iiab/iiab/blob/master/vars/default_vars.yml
 # If nec, change them by editing /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml prior to installing!
 

roles/pbx/tasks/freepbx.yml

@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@
     state: absent
   when: not pbx_enabled
 
+- name: FreePBX - Add {{ freepbx_http_port }} as a Listen directive to apache ports.conf
+  lineinfile:
+    path: /etc/apache2/ports.conf
+    line: "Listen {{ freepbx_http_port }}"
+    insertafter: Listen 80  
+
 - name: FreePBX - Restart Apache service ({{ apache_service }})
   systemd:
     name: "{{ apache_service }}"    # httpd or apache2

roles/pbx/templates/freepbx.conf.j2

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-<VirtualHost *:80>
+<VirtualHost *:{{ freepbx_http_port }}>
-
-ServerName pbx.lan
 
 ServerAdmin admin@box.lan
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/

vars/default_vars.yml

@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ asterisk_chan_dongle: False
 pbx_signaling_ports_chan_sip: "5160:5161"
 pbx_signaling_ports_chan_pjsip: "5060"
 pbx_data_ports: "10000:20000"
+pbx_http_port: 8888
 
 # If using WordPress intensively, set apache_high_php_limits in 3-BASE-SERVER
 wordpress_install: False