You need to install Debian Wheezy (v7) 64-bit on the server. A basic installation without any additional task selection (like Desktop System, Web Server etc.) is sufficient.

	Sipwise recommends using the latest Netinstall ISO as installation medium.

	If you use other kinds of installation media (e.g. provided by your hosting provider), prepare for some issues that might come up during installation. For example, you might be forced to manually resolve package dependencies in order to install the sip:provider CE. Therefore, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to use a clean Debian installation to simplify the installation process.

	If you installed your system using the Debian CDs/DVDs (so neither using the NGCP install CD nor the Debian Netinstall ISO) apt-get might prompt to insert disk to proceed during NGCP installation. The prompt won’t be visible for you and installation hangs. Please disable the cdrom entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and enable a Debian mirror (e.g. http://http.debian.net/debian) instead.

4.3.1.1. Using special Debian setups

If you plan to install the sip:provider CE on Virtual Hosting Providers like Dreamhost with their provided Debian installer, you might need to manually prepare the system for the NGCP installation, otherwise the installer will fail installing certain package versions required to function properly.

Using Dreamhost Virtual Private Server

A Dreamhost virtual server uses apt-pinning and installs specific versions of MySQL and apache, so you need to clean this up beforehand.

	Apache is not used by default since mr3.6.1, still better to remove pinned Apache version.

apt-get remove --purge mysql-common ndn-apache22
mv /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.bak
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

	Be aware that this step will break your web-based system administration provided by Dreamhost. Only do it if you are certain that you won’t need it.

The sip:provider CE is based on the Sipwise NGCP, so download and install the latest Sipwise NGCP installer package:

PKG=ngcp-installer-latest.deb
wget http://deb.sipwise.com/spce/${PKG}
dpkg -i ${PKG}

Run the installer as root user:

ngcp-installer

	You can find the previous versions of Sipwise NGCP installer package here.

The installer will ask you to confirm that you want to start the installation. Read the given information carefully, and if you agree, proceed with y.

The installation process will take several minutes, depending on your network connection and server performance. If everything goes well, the installer will (depending on the language you use), show something like this:

Installation finished. Thanks for choosing NGCP sip:provider Community Edition.

During the installation, you can watch the background processing by executing the following command on a separate console:

tail -f /tmp/ngcp-installer.log

Vagrant is an open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. Sipwise provides a so called Vagrant base box for your service, to easily get direct access to your own sip:provider CE Virtual Machine without any hassles.

	The following software must be installed to use Vagrant boxes:

Get your copy of sip:provider CE by running:

vagrant init spce-mr3.8.8 http://deb.sipwise.com/spce/images/sip_provider_CE_mr3.8.8_vagrant.box
vagrant up

As soon as the machine is up and ready you should have your local copy of sip:provider CE with the following benefits:

Use the following command to access the terminal:

vagrant ssh

or login to Administrator web-interface at https://127.0.0.1:1443/login/admin (with default user administrator and password administrator).

There are two ways to access VM resources, through NAT or Bridge interface:

	a.b.c.d is IP address of VM machine received from DHCP; x.y.z.p is IP address of your host machine

	VM ports smaller then 1024 mapped to ports 22<vm_port> through NAT, otherwise root on host machine requires to map them. It means SSH port 22 mapped to port 2222, WEB port 443 → 22443.

VM IP address (a.b.c.d), as well as SIP credentials will be printed to terminal during "vagrant up" stage, e.g.:

[20_add_sip_account] Adding SIP credentials...
[20_add_sip_account]   - removing domain 192.168.1.103 with subscribers
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding domain 192.168.1.103
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991002@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991002)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991003@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991003)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991004@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991004)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991005@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991005)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991006@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991006)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991007@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991007)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991008@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991008)
[20_add_sip_account]   - adding subscriber 43991009@192.168.1.103 (pass: 43991009)
[20_add_sip_account] You can USE your VM right NOW:  https://192.168.1.103:1443/login/admin

To turn off your sip:provider CE virtual machine, just type:

vagrant halt

To completely remove sip:provider CE virtual machine, use:

vagrant destroy
vagrant box remove spce-mr3.8.8

Further documentation for Vagrant is available at the official Vagrant website.

Vagrant usage tips:

  vagrant ssh-config

You can download a VirtualBox image from here (checksums: sha1, md5). Once you have downloaded the file you can import it to VirtualBox via its import utility.

The format of the image is ova. If you have VirtualBox 3.x running, which is not compatible with ova format, you need to extract the file with any tar compatible software and import the ovf file which is inside the archive.

On Linux, you can do it like this:

tar xvf sip_provider_CE_mr3.8.8_virtualbox.ova

On Windows, right-click on the ova file, choose Open with and select WinZIP or WinRAR or any other application able to extract tar archives. Extract the files to any place and import the resulting ovf file in VirtualBox.

Considerations when using this virtual machine:

You can download a VMware image from here (checksums: sha1, md5). Once you have downloaded the file just extract the zip file and copy its content to your virtual machines folder.

Considerations when using this virtual machine:

Sipwise provides AMI (Amazon Machine Images) images in all Amazon EC2 regions for the latest and LTS sip:provider CE releases. Please find the appropriate AMI ID for your region in release announcement.

	The following documentation will use Amazon region eu-west-1 with AMI ID ami-8bef6cfc as an example. Please find the appropriate AMI ID for your region in the latest release announcement.

As a next step please visit https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=eu-west-1 with your EC2 account.

Choose "Launch Instance":

Figure 4. Launch Amazon EC2 Instance for your region

Select "Community AMIs" option, enter "ami-8bef6cfc" inside the search field and press "Select" button:

Figure 5. Choose sip:provider CE image (different for each region)

Select the Instance Type you want to use for running sip:provider CE (recommended: >=2GB RAM):

Figure 6. Choose Amazon EC2 instance

	Do not forget to tune necessary sip:provider CE performance parameters depending on Amazon EC2 instance type and performance you are looking for. Sipwise image is tunned for minimum performance to fit Micro instances. Feel free to read more about sip:provider CE performance tuning in Section 16.8, “System requirements and performance”.

Run through next configuration options

	Please feel free to restrict the Source options in your Security Group to your own (range of) IP addresses.

Figure 7. Configure Security Group

Finally Review instance launch and press "Launch" button:

Figure 8. Launch Amazon EC2 instance with sip:provider CE

Choose an existing key pair which you want to use for logging in, or create a new one if you don’t have one.

Figure 9. Choose key pair to access sip:provider CE

You should have a running instance after a few seconds/minutes now (check DNS name/IP address).

Figure 10. Running Amazon EC2 sip:provider CE instance

Logging in via SSH should work now, using the key pair name (being sip-provider-ce.pem as $keypair in our example) and the DNS name/IP address the system got assigned.

ssh -i $keypair.pem admin@$DNS

First step should be logging in to the Admin panel (username administrator, password administrator) and changing the default password: https://$DNS:1443/login/admin and then follow Section 16, “Security and Maintenance” to secure your installation.

Now feel free to use your newly started Amazon EC2 sip:provider CE instance!

	Do not forget to stop unnecessary instance(s) to avoid unexpected costs (see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/).