How to Install Jitsi Meet

Jitsi Meet is an open source conferencing system. In this tutorial, we are going to install all the components on Jitsi Meet on a single server using Jitsi quick installation. Here are the components that will be installed when installing Jitsi Meet.

1. Nginx
2. Prosody
3. Jicofo (Jitsi Conference Focus)
4. JVB (Jitsi Video Bridge)
5. Jitsi Meet Frontend

In a scalable production system, you might have to consider installing these components in different servers.

You should know the domain/sub-domain name that you are going to use with the installation.

Preparing the firewall

Follow What Ports You Should Open to Run Jitsi Meet and open the necessary port on your server

Installing Nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

Install Jitsi Meet package

First we need to add the repository

echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list
wget -qO -  https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | apt-key add -

Then update the package list

sudo apt-get update

install jitsi meet

apt-get -y install jitsi-meet

Enter the domain name that you are going to use with the installation. ex : meet.meetrix.io

Installing Lets Encrypt SSL Certificates

If you have pointed the domain to the server, copy and past following commands to install ietf certbot client and install ssl certificates

sudo apt-get -y update && \
sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common && \
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:certbot/certbot && \
sudo apt-get -y update && \
sudo apt-get -y install python-certbot-nginx && \
sudo certbot --nginx

That's it..