Jitsi

Stop / Start

systemctl stop jicofo jitsi-videobridge2 nginx prosody coturn

systemctl start jicofo jitsi-videobridge2 nginx prosody coturn

Links

• Self-Hosting Guide: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-quickstart/

Setup

Host

• interserver.net: hellman.deadmandao.com
• namecheap.com: CNAME meet.bobbushman.com -> hellman.deadmandao.com
• Apache Note: "Nginx/Apache: As we prefer the usage of Nginx as webserver, the installer checks first for the presence of Nginx and then for Apache." - Jitsi
  • IE: nginx is not required. (though Apache is second-class, so maybe it won't be automatic)

Packages

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y gnupg apt-transport-https ufw emacs-nox curl
sudo apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-nginx openjdk-17-jre

Hostname

$ sudo hostnamectl  set-hostname meet.bobbushman.com
$ sudo emacs -nw /etc/hosts
# add 66.23.231.157 meet.bobbushman.com 
$ ping meet.bobbushman.com

Jitsi Deb Repo

Maybe check the Jitsi docs on Ubuntu latest, especially if running Deb 12 or higher.

$ echo deb http://packages.prosody.im/debian $(lsb_release -sc) main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
$ wget https://prosody.im/files/prosody-debian-packages.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install lua5.2

$ curl -sL 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

Jitsi Install

$ sudo apt install jitsi-meet

Dependency error

sudo apt update has a 410 error, missing signature. trying a different prosody repo

$ sudo curl -sL https://prosody.im/files/prosody-debian-packages.key -o /etc/apt/keyrings/prosody-debian-packages.key
$ echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/prosody-debian-packages.key] http://packages.prosody.im/debian $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prosody-debian-packages.list
$ sudo apt update

same 410 error

Trying to debug.

$ sudo apt install jitsi-meet

dependency error, jits-meet-prosody, jitsi-meet-turnserver

$ sudo apt install jitsi-meet-prosody

dependency error prosody

$ sudo apt install prosody

Seems to have worked

$ sudo apt install jitsi-meet-prosody

dependency error prosody, 0.11.7 versus 0.11.2

Checked one of my Lightsail boxes, running Debian 11, it has a newer version of Prosody. Going to try lighting up on there.

Actually, trying to upgrade my interserver box to Deb 11 first.

$ sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list # change buster to bullseye
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt full-upgrade
$ sudo apt autoremove

Install Jitsi

$ sudo apt install jitsi-meet

Success!

https://meet.bobbushman.com/

Had troubles with certbot a couple times, might have to re-run:

certbot --nginx -d meet.bobbushman.com --register-unsafely-without-email

Firewall

$ 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 verbose

root@vps2364995:~# ufw enable
Command may disrupt existing ssh connections. Proceed with operation (y|n)? y
ERROR: problem running ufw-init
Warning: Extension conntrack revision 0 not supported, missing kernel module?
Warning: Extension conntrack is not supported, missing kernel module?
iptables-restore v1.8.9 (nf_tables): 
line 2: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-track-output
line 3: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-track-output
Warning: Extension conntrack revision 0 not supported, missing kernel module?
Warning: Extension conntrack is not supported, missing kernel module?
Warning: Extension conntrack is not supported, missing kernel module?
Warning: Extension conntrack is not supported, missing kernel module?
Warning: Extension conntrack is not supported, missing kernel module?
iptables-restore v1.8.9 (nf_tables): 
line 25: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-before-input
line 26: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-before-output
line 27: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-before-forward
line 30: RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain ufw-before-input