Jitsi Meet is a pretty valid alternative to Google Hangouts, but in this case, we’re talking about a completely open-source alternative. On the other hand, it’s free and even though it’s not, it offers some advantages that we could consider premium like HD Audio support. Everything 100% encrypted.

In these times in which the formal work has been threatened, some companies have found in Jitsi a quality tool. Especially because it does not require the creation of an account and because it can be installed on your server.

Some features of Jitsi Meet are as follows:

• Share your desktop, presentations, and more.
• Invite users to a conference via a simple, custom URL.
• Edit documents together using Etherpad.P
• Pick fun meeting URLs for every meeting.
• Trade messages and emojis while you video conference, with integrated chat.

Again, all this for free, open-source, and encrypted conversations. So, technologically it’s pretty competent.

Install Jitsi on Debian 10

We will be able to install Jitsi with the repository that the developers give us. This ensures that the integration with the system and the package manager is complete.

To perform the installation, we will have to connect to our server and update it.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Then, it is necessary to change the hostname of the computer for your domain.

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname [domain]

Replace [domain] with yours.

Then modify the hosts file of the server and add the following line:

sudo nano /etc/hosts 
127.0.0.1 domain  

Before continuing, you have to make sure that ports 80, 443 and 4443 of the TCP protocol and port 10000 of the UDP protocol are open in the firewall.

Now it is time to install the gnupg package which contains instructions for adding GPG keys from external repositories.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnupg

Now you can download and add the GPG key from the Jitsi repository.

wget https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key
sudo apt-key add jitsi-key.gpg.key

Next, create a new file that will contain the information for us to add the Jitsi repository.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list

And add:

deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/

Save the changes and close the editor.

So, refresh APT so that the repository information can be loaded.

sudo apt update

And finally, install Jitsi by running:

sudo apt install jitsi-meet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core java-common jicofo jitsi-meet-prosody jitsi-meet-web jitsi-meet-web-config jitsi-videobridge2 libasound2
  libasound2-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcups2 libfontconfig1 libgd3 libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo liblcms2-2 libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam
  libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext libnginx-mod-http-echo libnginx-mod-http-geoip libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair
  libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libnspr4 libnss3 libpcsclite1 libtiff5 libwebp6 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6
  libxext6 libxi6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxtst6 lua-bitop lua-expat lua-filesystem lua-sec lua-socket lua5.2 nginx nginx-common nginx-full
  openjdk-11-jre-headless prosody ssl-cert uuid-runtime x11-common
Suggested packages:
  default-jre libasound2-plugins alsa-utils cups-common libgd-tools liblcms2-utils pcscd fcgiwrap nginx-doc libnss-mdns fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-ipafont-gothic
  fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei | fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic lua-dbi-mysql lua-dbi-postgresql lua-dbi-sqlite3 lua-zlib openssl-blacklist
Recommended packages:
  jitsi-meet-turnserver | apache2 lua5.2-event
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ca-certificates-java fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core java-common jicofo jitsi-meet jitsi-meet-prosody jitsi-meet-web jitsi-meet-web-config jitsi-videobridge2
  libasound2 libasound2-data libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcups2 libfontconfig1 libgd3 libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo liblcms2-2
  libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext libnginx-mod-http-echo libnginx-mod-http-geoip libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter
  libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libnspr4 libnss3 libpcsclite1 libtiff5 libwebp6 libx11-6
  libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxi6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxtst6 lua-bitop lua-expat lua-filesystem lua-sec lua-socket lua5.2 nginx
  nginx-common nginx-full openjdk-11-jre-headless prosody ssl-cert uuid-runtime x11-common
0 upgraded, 61 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
Need to get 128 MB of archives.
After this operation, 326 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

During the installation, we will be asked to enter the hostname of our server, which can be your domain.

Then you will be asked if you want to generate a new certificate or use an existing one. In this case, I will generate new certificates.

Preparing Jitsi for the first use

By default, Jitsi is very secure but we need access from the web to be secure too and that is why we need to generate TLS certificates. To do this, install the Certbot package.

sudo apt install certbot

Then run a script that provides us with the Jitsi installation where we only need to enter our email address.

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

In the end, you will see a success message.

Now the next step is to prevent anonymous users from creating rooms. To do this edit the configuration file for your domain.

sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/your_domain.cfg.lua

Remember to replace your_domain with yours .

And look for the value

 authentication = "anonymous"

And replace it with:

authentication = "internal_plain"

At the end of the same file add the following section:

VirtualHost "guest.your_domain"
    authentication = "anonymous"
    c2s_require_encryption = false

Don’t forget to replace the your_domain value with yours. With this configuration, we will make it so that anonymous users can log in to rooms created by authenticated users.

Save the changes and close the editor.

Now we also need to edit another file to add the host of the guest users.

sudo nano /etc/jitsi/meet/your_domain-config.js

And change the line

// anonymousdomain: 'guest.example.com',

To

anonymousdomain: 'guest.your_domain',

Again, save the changes and close the editor.

Finally, edit the /etc/jitsi/jicofo/sip-communicator.properties file.

sudo nano /etc/jitsi/jicofo/sip-communicator.properties

And add the following line:

org.jitsi.jicofo.auth.URL=XMPP:your_domain

Replacing your_domain with yours.

Save the changes and close the editor.

Now create a new user who will be able to create new rooms:

sudo prosodyctl register [user] [your_domain] [password]

Replace the fields with the values you prefer.

To apply all changes, restart the services.

sudo systemctl restart prosody.service
sudo systemctl restart jicofo.service
sudo systemctl restart jitsi-videobridge2.service
sudo systemctl restart nginx

And you can visit https://your-domain and enjoy Jitsi.

Conclusion

Jitsi is another wonderful application because it allows us to deploy a secure and stable video call server. This makes it ideal in professional environments.

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OpenMeetings is an Apache Foundation project that allows you to deploy a server for Internet conferencing. But it’s not only limited to that, but it also provides chat and file transfer.

Also, OpenMeetings is released as open-source and because it is built in Java it can be run on many different operating systems. With this, quality and security are guaranteed because we can manage everything ourselves.

So let’s go for it.

Install OpenMeetings on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04

One of the advantages of OpenMeetings is that it’s made in Java with all that that implies. That is, robustness, stability, and that Java is cross-platform so it works on almost any system. So the first step is to install Java.

1.- Install some required packages and Java on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04

Before installing Java, it is convenient to install some dependencies first. So open a terminal session or connect to your server and run the following command:

:~$ sudo apt install imagemagick ghostscript libxt6 libxrender1 ffmpeg sox

These packages increase the capabilities of OpenMeetings.

Then we can install Java. The easiest and safest option is to use OpenJDK which is in the Ubuntu repositories. This Open-source implementation of Java is the same but with a more permissive license.

To install it execute the following command:

:~$ sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  at-spi2-core ca-certificates-java fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core fonts-dejavu-extra java-common libasound2 libasound2-data libatk-bridge2.0-0
  libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libatspi2.0-0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcups2 libdrm-amdgpu1
  libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgif7 libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0
  libglx0 libice6 libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 libllvm9 libnspr4 libnss3 libpciaccess0 libpcsclite1 libsensors4 libsm6 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0
  libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2
  libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 openjdk-11-jre-headless x11-common x11-utils
Suggested packages:
  default-jre libasound2-plugins alsa-utils cups-common liblcms2-utils pcscd lm-sensors libnss-mdns fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei
  | fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-indic mesa-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  at-spi2-core ca-certificates-java fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core fonts-dejavu-extra java-common libasound2 libasound2-data libatk-bridge2.0-0
  libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libatspi2.0-0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcups2 libdrm-amdgpu1
  libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgif7 libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libice6
  libjpeg-turbo8 libjpeg8 liblcms2-2 libllvm9 libnspr4 libnss3 libpciaccess0 libpcsclite1 libsensors4 libsm6 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0
  libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1
  libxshmfence1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless x11-common x11-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdrm-common libdrm2
2 upgraded, 70 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
Need to get 68.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 505 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Finally, you can check the installed version:

:~$ java --version
openjdk 11.0.6 2020-01-14
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.6+10-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu118.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.6+10-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu118.04.1, mixed mode, sharing)

So, you can continue.

2.- Install and configure MariaDB (optional)

This step is optional because Apache OpenMeetings has an integrated database manager. However, it’s a good idea to rely on MariaDB or MySQL.

To install it, use the following command:

:~$ sudo apt install mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  galera-3 libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libencode-locale-perl libfcgi-perl libhtml-parser-perl
  libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl libio-html-perl libjemalloc1 liblwp-mediatypes-perl libmysqlclient20
  libterm-readkey-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl mariadb-client-10.1 mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.1 mariadb-server-core-10.1
  mysql-common socat
Suggested packages:
  libclone-perl libmldbm-perl libnet-daemon-perl libsql-statement-perl libdata-dump-perl libipc-sharedcache-perl libwww-perl mailx mariadb-test tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  galera-3 libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libconfig-inifiles-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libencode-locale-perl libfcgi-perl libhtml-parser-perl
  libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl libio-html-perl libjemalloc1 liblwp-mediatypes-perl libmysqlclient20
  libterm-readkey-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl mariadb-client-10.1 mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common mariadb-server mariadb-server-10.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.1 mysql-common socat
0 upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 184 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Then use the mysql_secure_installation script to assign a root password.

And finally, it creates the database and the new user dedicated to OpenMeetings.

:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
>CREATE DATABASE openmeetingsdb;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmeetingsdb.* TO 'openmeetings'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'userpss';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> exit;

3.- Download OpenMeetings on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04

Now we can start downloading OpenMeetings. To do this I’ll go to the /tmp/ folder and from there with the help of the wget command start the download.

:~$ cd /tmp/
:~$ wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/openmeetings/4.0.10/bin/apache-openmeetings-4.0.10.tar.gz

At the time of writing this post, the latest stable version is 4.0.10 so, first, check and modify the command.

Then, after downloading it, we have to create a folder where we will decompress the file. In my case, I’ve named it openmeetings.

:~$ mkdir openmeetings

Now, decompress the file and move the folder to /opt/

:~$ sudo tar xvf apache-openmeetings-4.0.10.tar.gz -C openmeetings/
:~$ sudo mv openmeetings /opt/

Now access the folder where it is installed and start the server. It will take a while depending on the computer:

:~$ cd /opt/openmeetings
:~$ sudo sh red5.sh openmeetings

Then we can complete the installation from the program’s web interface.

4.- Install OpenMeeting on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04

Now you have to complete the installation from the web interface. To do this, open your favorite web browser and go to the following address:

http://your-server-ip:5080/openmeetings

Of course, it replaces the corresponding value. Or the DNS.

You’ll see the following:

Next, press the “>” button.

Now, you will see the database configuration screen. Select MariaDB /MySQL and type the credentials.

Now, create the admin user and Group. Then press the “>” button.

Then, set up some settings for OpenMeetings.

Now it’s the converters’ turn. To do this, write down the routes for each of them. And then click on the > button.

Keep configuring the software. This time with red5SIP configuration.

The next step is to complete the installation.

If everything went well, you will see the following screen.

So, log in and start to use the application.

So, enjoy it.

Conclusion

Within an organization or educational environment, communication plays an important role. And thanks to OpenMeetings you can deploy a server that allows you to have meetings and chat, manage it and share files. Today you have learned how to install this tool on a Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 server.

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