How to configure Flexisip for local manual testing?

This tutorial will help you set up minimal configurations to start testing Flexisip on a local environment.

It is designed as follows:

• A common section Minimal configuration helps you enable basic features.
• Several sections to help you enable all the other features with minimal configuration.

Prerequisites

First, please make sure Flexisip is installed:

• From Belledonne Communications' repositories ...
• ... or manual installation from built source code.

You will need some information for this tutorial:

• IPv4 address (on local network) of the device on which your server will run.
• We will use sip.example.org as sip domain.

Details for manual installations

        Please make sure it is installed with a prefix by setting -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path_to_installation_directory> in your CMake configuration.

        Then, install Flexisip: cmake --build <path_to_build_directory> --target install

Minimal configuration

This first section covers the minimum requirements, on both server and client sides, to start testing.

This configuration will enable registration of devices to the SIP server and allow basic communications (audio/video calls + one-to-one chat).

Server side

Flexisip requires only a few parameters, simply defining the domain in which Flexisip operates: sip.example.org.

You can create a configuration file flexisip.test.conf containing the following lines:

Now start Flexisip: ./flexisip -c flexisip.test.conf --debug

Client side

We need fake users to register on our SIP server to start testing.

Add a new SIP account (on Linphone: Assistant > Use a SIP account) with the following configuration:

Now, you should start to see requests coming to your proxy server from this new user.

Push notifications

This section will help you configure push notifications on Flexisip.

You can follow the instructions in the dedicated section: module::PushNotification