This document explains about how to install and setup playSMS version 1.0.0
Most of on the requirements on this list must be fulfilled. Please read this part before starting the installation.
Minimum required hardware:
- Web server capable hardware
Optional hardware or infrastructure:
- GSM modem, single/modem pool (only when you plan to use Kannel, Gammu, Gnokii or smstools gateway plugins)
- Internet connection (only when you plan to use Clickatell, Nexmo, Twilio, Infobip gateway plugins)
- LAN (only when you plan to link 2 playSMS on different server in the same network using Uplink gateway plugin)
Minimum required softwares:
- Operating System Linux
- Web server software (for example Apache2, nginx or lighttpd)
- Database Server MySQL 5.x.x or latest stable release
- PHP 5.3 or latest stable release with mysql module enabled
- PHP CLI (very important, do not forget this)
- PHP PEAR and PHP PEAR-DB (very important, do not forget this)
- PHP gettext extension (for text translation)
- PHP mbstring extension (for unicode detection)
- PHP GD extension (to draw graphs)
- Access to SMTP server (playSMS will use this to send email)
- Console browser such as lynx, wget or curl
- Downloaded playSMS package from SF.net or latest source code from Github
- Properly installed composer from https://getcomposer.org
Minimum required server administrator (or developer):
- Understand howto make sure required softwares are installed
- Understand howto make sure installed PHP has MySQL module enabled/loaded
- Understand howto create/drop MySQL database
- Understand howto insert SQL statements into created database
- Basic knowledges to manage Linux (skill to navigate in console mode)
There are 2 methods explained in this document to install playSMS:
- Installation on Linux using install-script
- Installation on Linux step by step
You should pick only one method, do not do both methods.
Install playSMS using install script install-playsms.sh
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Extract playSMS package somewhere (For example in /usr/local/src).
tar -zxf playsms-1.0.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src ls -l /usr/local/src/ cd /usr/local/src/playsms-1.0.0/
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Copy install.conf.dist to install.conf and edit install.conf. Then read install.conf and make changes to suit your system configuration
cp install.conf.dist install.conf vi install.conf
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Run installer script
./install-playsms.sh
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Configure rc.local to get playsmsd started on boot
Look for rc.local on /etc, /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.d/init.d
When you found it edit that rc.local and put:
/usr/local/bin/playsmsd start
on the bottom of the file (before exit if theres an exit command). This way playsmsd will start automatically on boot.
You can use the provided script for debian/ubuntu
cp daemon/playsms /etc/init.d/playsms update-rc.d-insserv playsms defaults
Note:
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After successful installation, please run command
ps ax
and see if playsmsd is runningps ax | grep playsms 4069 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd schedule 4071 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd dlrssmsd 4073 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd recvsmsd 4075 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd sendsmsd
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Run several checks
playsmsd status playsmsd check
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Stop here and review your installation steps when playsmsd is not running
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Consider to ask question in playSMS forum when you encountered a problem
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If all seems to be correctly installed you may try to login from web by browsing
http://<your web server IP>/playsms/
and login using default administrator userusername: admin password: admin
Install playSMS by following step-by-step:
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Extract playSMS package somewhere (For example in /usr/local/src).
tar -zxf playsms-1.0.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src ls -l /usr/local/src
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Create playSMS web root, log, lib and set ownership to user www-data or web server user
mkdir -p /var/www/playsms /var/log/playsms /var/lib/playsms chown -R www-data /var/www/playsms /var/log/playsms /var/lib/playsms
There are Linux distributions using 'apache' as web server user instead of 'www-data'.
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Copy files and directories inside 'web' directory to playSMS web root and set ownership again to user www-data or web server user, just to make sure
cp -rR /usr/local/src/playsms-1.0.0/web/* /var/www/playsms chown -R www-data /var/www/playsms
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Setup database (import database)
mysqladmin -u root -p create playsms mysql -u root -p playsms < /usr/local/src/playsms-1.0.0/db/playsms.sql
You don't need to use MySQL root access nor this method to setup playSMS database, but this is beyond our scope.
You should read MySQL manual for custom installation method or howto insert SQL statements into existing database.
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Copy config-dist.php to config.php and then edit config.php
cp /var/www/playsms/config-dist.php /var/www/playsms/config.php vi /var/www/playsms/config.php
Please read and fill all fields with correct values
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Enter daemon/linux directory, copy files and folder inside
cd /usr/local/src/playsms-1.0.0/daemon/linux cp etc/playsmsd.conf /etc/playsmsd.conf cp bin/playsmsd /usr/local/bin/playsmsd
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Just to make sure every paths are correct, please edit /etc/playsmsd.conf
vi /etc/playsmsd.conf
Make sure that PLAYSMS_PATH is pointing to a correct playSMS installation path (in this example to /var/www/playsms), and make sure that PLAYSMS_BIN is pointing to a correct playSMS daemon scripts path (in this example to /usr/local/bin)
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Start playsmsd now from Linux console, no need to reboot
playsmsd start
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Configure rc.local to get playsmsd started on boot
Look for rc.local on /etc, /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.d/init.d
When you found it edit that rc.local and put:
/usr/local/bin/playsmsd start
on the bottom of the file (before exit if theres an exit command). This way playsmsd will start automatically on boot.
Note:
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After successful installation, please run command
ps ax
and see if playsmsd is runningps ax | grep playsms 4069 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd schedule 4071 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd dlrssmsd 4073 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd recvsmsd 4075 pts/12 S 0:00 /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/bin/playsmsd sendsmsd
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Run several checks
playsmsd status playsmsd check
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Stop here and review your installation steps when playsmsd is not running
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Consider to ask question in playSMS forum when you encountered a problem
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If all seems to be correctly installed you may try to login from web by browsing
http://<your web server IP>/playsms/
and login using default administrator userusername: admin password: admin
Next, choose a gateway.
If you have GSM modem and plan to use it with playSMS, please continue to follow instructions in INSTALL_SMSSERVERTOOLS to use SMS Server Tools (smstools3) as your gateway module, or follow INSTALL_KANNEL if you want to use Kannel.
Gnokii and Gammu also supported, please follow INSTALL_GNOKII if you want to use Gnokii as your gateway module, or INSTALL_GAMMU if you want to use Gammu.