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How to enable Secure Domain on JITSI

Jitsi is an open-source voice, video conferencing and instant messaging application. We can use it to easily build and deploy secure communication solution. It is developed in Java and supports many telephony and instant messaging protocols.

Secure Domain will make it possible to only allow authenticated users to create rooms. When a new conference is to be started, JITSI will prompt for username and password. Once the host is authenticated only then the conference will start.

Installation

We will be using Ubuntu 18 LTS as our host system. This tutorial assumes that you have installed JITSI meet. If you need help with installing JITSI then you can check this tutorial. Here is a brief overview of the steps we will be following in this tutorial to setup secure domain (authentication) on JITSI-MEET server.

  1. Prosody Configuration
  2. Jitsi-meet Configuration
  3. Jicofo Configuration
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How to Install Jitsi on Ubuntu 18 LTS

Jitsi is an open-source voice, video conferencing and instant messaging application. We can use it to easily build and deploy secure communication solutions. It is developed in Java and supports many telephony and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber/XMPP etc. It is based on OSGi architecture and uses Felix implementation from Apache.

Installation

For this tutorial, we will be using Ubuntu 18 LTS as the host operating system. Here is a brief overview of the steps we will be following in the tutorial.

  1. Some pre-requisite operations
  2. Set up FQDN if available
  3. Add Firewall Rules
  4. Installation
  5. Obtain a TLS certificate
  6. Understanding JITSI components
  7. NAT configuration
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How to setup MySQL authentication on JITSI

Jitsi is an open-source voice, video conferencing and instant messaging application. We can use it to easily build and deploy secure communication solutions. It is developed in Java and supports many telephony and instant messaging protocols.

By default JITSI comes up with no authentication set, means everyone can use your JITSI server for there video conferencing need. In order to setup a basic authentication you can enable secure domain on your JITSI instance. You can follow this guide to enable that on your server.

Now, once you have authentication enabled on your JITSI server you will notice that the users you created are not stored in the database. By default prosody (xmpp server) stores username and password in the memory. So let’s say if you guys want to integrate your custom app and want to generate bunch of users on JITSI then you not gonna like to execute prosodyctl commands on bash shell each time you create a new user. So to overcome this issue, we can enable mysql backend in prosody and can store the users of JITSI server in mysql database. Please hang tight as we proceed.

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