Installing Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) on Scaleway Instances

• media
• Jitsi-Meet
• videoconferencing

Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, open-source video conferencing tool.

It provides features like:

• screen sharing
• presentations
• inviting users to a conference through a custom URL
• editing documents together using Etherpad
• integrated chat

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

• A Scaleway account logged into the console
• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization
• An SSH key
• An Instance running on Ubuntu Focal Fossa with at least 4 GB of RAM.
• A domain or subdomain pointed to your Instance

Installing Jitsi Meet

1. Configure the hostname of the server corresponding to your domain or subdomain.

   hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi
   sed -i 's/^127.0.1.1.*$/127.0.1.1 jitsi.mydomain.tld jitsi/g' /etc/hosts
   sed -i 's/^127.0.0.1.*$/127.0.0.1 localhost jitsi.mydomain.tld jitsi/g' /etc/hosts
   

2. Update the APT package cache and upgrade the software installed on the Instance to the latest version available on the Debian repositories.

   apt update && apt upgrade
   

3. Install an Nginx web server. The Jitsi installation tool handles the Nginx configuration if it is present on the system.

   apt install -y nginx
   systemctl start nginx.service
   systemctl enable nginx.service
   

   Important

   If you have not installed Nginx or Apache, Jitsi Meet will automatically install Jetty.

4. Download and install the Prosody package repository.

   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 -
   apt install lua5.2
   

5. Download the APT key and set up the repositories of Jitsi:

   curl 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
   apt update
   

6. Launch the installation of Jitsi Meet.

   apt install -y jitsi-meet
   

   When asked:

   • The FQDN of your Instance. For example jitsi.mydomain.tld and press Enter.
   • When asked about the SSL certificate choose the Let's Encrypt certificates option and press Enter.
   • Enter your email address.
   • Enter your phone number (optional).

7. Open a web browser and type the FQDN of your Instance, for example: https://jitsi.mydomain.tld. The following screen displays:

   

8. Enter a name for your conference and press Start meeting to enter the conference room.

   

For more information about Jitsi Meet and the advanced configuration of the tool, refer to the official Jitsi documentation.