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System requirements

  • Most recent Jester code
  • FreeSWITCH 1.0.7 or later
  • Lua 5.1 or later.
  • LuaSocket 2.0.2 or later
  • LuaFilesystem 1.4.2 or later
  • For data module support:
    • Any database that supports standard SQL queries. A recent version of MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite should work just fine.
    • ODBC and the ODBC driver for the above database.
  • For email module support:
    • A mailserver with an open socket that you can send messages through.
  • For Jester's event listener support via socket.lua (experimental):
    • A mod_event_socket connection to the FreeSWITCH server.
  • Note that some other core modules have other dependencies, these are documented in the main description for each particular module.

Installation

Jester is relatively easy to install, especially if you have a modern package-based Linux distribution. Here are the basic steps:

  1. Install Lua (should be readily available from your packaging system) eg. yum install lua or apt-get install lua5.2

  2. Install the LuaFileSystem and LuaSocket packages (also probably available in your packaging system, they're in the EPEL repository for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, and in the Debian repos as well. eg. yum install lua-filesystem lua-socket or apt-get install lua-filesystem lua-socket If you can't find these in a package, you can use the LuaRocks package manager, or install from source:

  3. Set your LUA_PATH environment variable to include the FreeSWITCH 'scripts' directory. This is for easy access when you are logged in at the command line. For the bash shell, in a typical installation, it would look like this:

     export LUA_PATH=";;/usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/?.lua"

    The two semicolons at the beginning of the path are not a typo! Lua interprets those as 'include my default paths too'.

  4. Drop the entire 'jester' directory inside the FreeSWITCH 'scripts' directory. In a typical installation, it would be at:

      /usr/local/freeswitch/scripts/jester

  5. Depending on where you install the packages from step 2, you may need to fiddle with the LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH settings in the lua.conf.xml file found in the conf/autoload_configs directory of your FreeSWITCH installation. If you're seeing errors at the FreeSWITCH console about not being able load "lfs" or "socket", then this is the most likely cause. For example, the configuration for LUA_CPATH should be somewhat like this:

      <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib64/lua/5.2/?.so"/>

    or

      <param name="module-directory" value="/usr/lib/lua/5.2/?.so"/>

  6. If your FreeSWITCH 'scripts' directory is in a non-standard location, edit the value of the jester_dir variable in jester/conf.lua appropriately.

  7. Jester is now installed.

Note to Windows users:

Jester won't work on Windows unless you figure out the path separator issue, as Jester assumes that paths are /path/to/blah, and not C:\\path\to\blah. If you can solve that, it should work.