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Jitsi Meet

What Where
Official Page https://meet.jit.si/
Source https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
Documentation https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/

Setup Server

  • Setup Ubunutu 20.04 LTS VM
  • Attach a public IP e.g. 10.11.12.13
  • add a DNS entry e.g. jitsi.example.com
  • Add 10.11.12.13 jitsi.example.com to /etc/host
  • Update the server: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Add apt-transport-https and enable the universe repository

apt install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt update

Add Jitsi as repository

curl https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sudo sh -c 'gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-keyring.gpg'
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-keyring.gpg] https://download.jitsi.org stable/' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update

Update the firewall (also check host/provider for network settings)

sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
sudo ufw allow 443/tcp
sudo ufw allow 10000/udp
sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
sudo ufw allow 3478/udp
sudo ufw allow 5349/tcp
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw status numbered

Install jitsi

Install Jitsi and enter the FQDN for jitsi (e.g. jitsi.example.com) and add select an option for the certificate

sudo apt install jitsi-meet -y

If you selected to create a self-signed cert run this:

sudo /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh

You should now be able to open jitsi.example.com in your browser and start a meeting.

Config Jitsi

To allow only valid users to create new meetings config jitsi as follows:

Edit as root nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/[your-hostname].cfg.lua and:

  • Change authentication = "anonymous" to authentication = "internal_hashed"

  • Add an addtional VirtualHost entry with guest. + current jitsi FQDN e.g.:

    lua VirtualHost "guest.jitsi.example.com" authentication = "anonymous" c2s_require_encryption = false

The domain of the guest VirtualHost is internal only. There is no need to update your DNS for guest.jitsi.example.com.

Update the Jitsi Conference Focus by editing this file as root nano /etc/jitsi/meet/[your-hostname]-config.js and adding anonymousdomain: 'guest.jitsi.example.com'

Now add a user and password with sudo prosodyctl register [username] jitsi.example.com [password]

Restart all services and only allowed users are able to create meetings.

service prosody restart
service jicofo restart
service jitsi-videobridge2 restart
service nginx restart