Self-hosting Jitsi – LandChad.net

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- - Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video - conferencing solutions. - + Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions.

- Is really easy to install, and also a really good alternative to Zoom or other video conferencing software. + Is really easy to install, and also a really good private, federated and libre alternative to Zoom or other video conferencing software. You can create calls just by typing the URL, and loging-in is not necessary.

- In this tutorial I'm assuming you're running Devian 9 or newer on your server, although Jitsi is also - supported out-of-the-box for Ubuntu, but that need some extra steps you can see - here. -

How to get

Dependencies and Installation

First of all, you'll need to make sure you have apt-transport-https installed, so run

First, install some dependencies:

apt update
apt install apt-transport-https

apt install gpg apt-transport-https nginx python-certbot-nginx

Jitsi has its own package repository, so let's add it.

curl https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | 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/' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list > /dev/null

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

Ok. So now we can install Jitsi, but before we do that, let's the firewall ufw, in case you have it enabled, and the SSL certificate.

Enable Required Ports

Setup and configure your firewall

If you are using ufw or another firewall, there are several ports we need to ensure are open:

ufw allow 80/tcp
+ufw allow 443/tcp
+ufw allow 10000/udp
+ufw allow 3478/udp
+ufw allow 5349/tcp
+ufw enable

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For your information, these allow the following:

The following ports need to be open in your firewall, to allow traffic to the Jitsi Meet server:

443 TCP - for general access to Jitsi Meet.
10000 UDP - for general network video/audio communications.
3478 UDP - for quering the stun server (coturn, optional, needs config.js change to enable it).
80 TCP – Certbot.
443 TCP – General access to Jitsi Meet.
10000 UDP – General network video/audio communications.
3478 UDP – Quering the stun server (coturn, optional, needs config.js change to enable it).
- 5349 TCP - for fallback network video/audio communications over TCP (when UDP is blocked for example), - served by coturn. + 5349 TCP – Fallback network video/audio communications over TCP (when UDP is blocked for example), served by coturn.

ufw allow 443/tcp
ufw allow 10000/udp
ufw allow 3478/udp
ufw allow 5349/tcp
ufw enable

SSL certificate

I'll be using certbot and - Nginx to generate the certificate. -

- Add the subdomain to your Nginx configuration file, wich for me is - /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywebsite. Open it and add the following at the end: + Nginx to generate a certificate + for the Jitsi subdomain to allow encrypted connections.

server {
-  server_name meet.example.com ;
-  location / {
-    try_files $uri $uri/ =404 ;
-  }
-}

certbot --nginx certonly -d meet.example.org

- Substitute meet.example.com accordingly, where meet can be any subdomain you - want. + We will not create an Nginx config file for Jitsi because the Jitsi package we will be installing will do that automatically.

Run certbot and reload nginx.

Installation

To begin the installation process, just run

To begin the installation process, just run:

apt install jitsi-meet

It will ask you for your hostname; there you'll need to input the subdomain you have just added to Nginx, like - meet.example.com. + meet.example.org.

For the SSL certificate, choose I want to use my own certificate.

When it ask you for the certification key and cert files, input - /etc/letsencrypt/live/meet.example.com/privkey.pem and - /etc/letsencrypt/live/meet.example.com/cert.pem respectively. + /etc/letsencrypt/live/meet.example.org/privkey.pem and + /etc/letsencrypt/live/meet.example.org/cert.pem respectively.

Confirm that your installation is working

Using Jitsi

Just open a web browser and go to meet.example.com.

Enjoy Jitsi!

Jitsi can be used in a browser by then just going to meet.example.org.

More info

Note that there are also Jitsi clients for all major platforms:

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Desktop (Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux)
Android (F-Droid and Google Play)
iPhone/iOS

- This article is based on - the original documentation. There you can find more details and configurations. + When using a Jitsti app for the first time, remember to go to the "Settings" menu and change your server name to the Jitsi site you just created.

When you create a video chatroom, its address will appear as meet.example.org/yourvideochatname and can be shared as such.

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More info

- Written by Jose Fabio.
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Edited and revised by Luke.