Install Jitsi meet
In this post I will show you how you can install Jitsi meet on your server.
Jitsi is state-of-the art video conferencing software that you can self-host or simply use at meet.jit.si.
Configure hostname
In this step, you will change the system’s hostname to match the domain name that you intend to use for your Jitsi Meet instance.
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi.mydomain.intra
sudo nano nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 jitsi.mydomain.intra
Install Jitsi Meet
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 install apt-transport-https
sudo apt update
sudo apt install jitsi-meet
During the installation of jitsi-meet you will be prompted to enter the domain name. Then you will be shown a new dialog box that asks if you want Jitsi to create and use a self-signed TLS certificate or use an existing one. For this demo I will use the self-signed option.
If you want to use letsencrypt select self-signed the install certboot and use jitsi’s script like this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt install certbot
sudo /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
NAT Configuration
If the installation is behind NAT jitsi-videobridge should configure jitsi-videobridge in order for it to be accessible from outside.
nano /etc/jitsi/videobridge/sip-communicator.properties
org.ice4j.ice.harvest.NAT_HARVESTER_LOCAL_ADDRESS=<Local.IP.Address>
org.ice4j.ice.harvest.NAT_HARVESTER_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=<Public.IP.Address>
The you need to NAT the ports 443 4443 10000 from externat ip to the server.
Configure Jitsi
The default config allow any user to start meetings without authentication. For a publicly accessible server this is not what we want.
With this configuration all users need to authenticate to use Jitsi.
sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/jitsi.mydomain.intra.cfg.lua
...
VirtualHost "jitsi.mydomain.intra"
# change this:
# authentication = "anonymous"
# tho this:
authentication = "internal_plain"
sudo nano /etc/jitsi/jicofo/sip-communicator.properties
...
org.jitsi.jicofo.auth.URL=XMPP:jitsi.mydomain.intra
Create users manually
prosodyctl register <username> jitsi.mydomain.intra <Password>
For a few user is is ok to create them manually but for many users you need something like ldap:
sudo apt install sasl2-bin libsasl2-modules-ldap lua-cyrussasl
sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/ldap.cfg.lua
VirtualHost "jitsi.mydomain.intra"
# change this:
# authentication = "anonymous"
# tho this:
authentication = "cyrus"
cyrus_application_name = "xmpp"
...
modules_enabled = {
...
"auth_cyrus"; -- Add this line
}
c2s_require_encryption = false
...
sudo nano /etc/sasl/xmpp.conf
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN
sudo nano /etc/saslauthd.conf
ldap_servers: ldap://10.0.0.1
ldap_search_base: dc=my,dc=search,dc=base
ldap_bind_dn: cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=foo,dc=bar
ldap_bind_pw: PassW0rd
ldap_filter: (samaccountname=%u)
ldap_version: 3
ldap_auth_method: bind
# for tls change ldap_servers to ldaps://
# the add uncomment and configure this:
#ldap_tls_key: /config/certs/meet.jit.si.key
#ldap_tls_cert: /config/certs/meet.jit.si.crt
#ldap_tls_check_peer: yes
#ldap_tls_cacert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
#ldap_tls_cacert_dir: /etc/ssl/certs
The next configuration allows anonymous users to join conference rooms that were created by an authenticated user.
sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/jitsi.mydomain.intra.cfg.lua
...
# to the end
VirtualHost "guest.jitsi.mydomain.intra"
authentication = "anonymous"
c2s_require_encryption = false
The guest. hostname is only used internally by Jitsi Meet. You will never enter it into a browser or need to create a DNS record for it.
sudo nano /etc/jitsi/meet/jitsi.mydomain.intra-config.js
var config = {
hosts: {
domain: "jitsi.mydomain.intra",
anonymousdomain: 'guest.jitsi.mydomain.intra',
After a config change yo need to restart the services:
systemctl restart prosody jicofo jitsi-videobridge2