Since corona videoconferencing solution are wanted.
Just got to know the great solution bigbluebutton https://bigbluebutton.org/
Could yunohost work with bigbluebutton ?
ljf
March 27, 2020, 5:56pm
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It seems there is no yunohost package for it.
But i think it’s possible to create the package.
It’s a great app i rediscovered ot this week it’s amazing.
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Unfortunately, BigBlueButton seems to require ports 80+443 for itself, which is not compatible with YunoHost (correct?).
Its developers explain why here , which I find to be a weak explanation. Nevertheless, they do not provide any clear mean to change ports .
This one is a bit harder – we’ve not tried to run BigBlueButton on anything except the standard ports of 443/80…
opened 01:59AM - 14 May 19 UTC
Hi,
Hope this is the right place
I plan to trial this internally on a NAT'… d Proxmox system and expose some ports to the internet.
443/80 are occupied presently by other services on this box. I figured that bbb can sit on an odd port because it will always be linked to from our chat (Mattermost); so no chance of typo.
I've made some changes to the script so that:
* DNS lookups are not performed (they'll fail in a NAT'd environment).
* Locales are exported correctly (otherwise PPA imports will fail)
* Challenges are not dependent on 443/80 and we can defer to a custom Let's Encrypt client instead. In our case -- it's usually beneficial to use DNS based validation as not every server is directly able to handle a challenge.
(happy to PR as RFCs). The first suggestion probably needs refinement; as checking DNS is not inherently bad.
I'm still being stung by running BBB on Port 444.
I've set my API to https://foo:444/bigbluebutton/api in Mattermost but it's still generating standard port 443 links for meetings. Is there a trivial way to resolve this? Currently I have iptables forwarding 444 -> 443 on this machine. (444 publicly exposed).
My other question is if this script is suitable for prod. I'm not keen on the idea of configuring Tomcat by hand which is why I opted for this Docker based solution. But I understand that BBB has a web based interface for configuring recordings etc that doesn't seem to be exposed presently. If I can configure things via a (presuming) /etc/ conf; then this is a non issue.
Cheers
Sam
hmm… don´t really understand why…
Me neither. They go in long lengths there explaining why they advise against using different ports. They dumb it down to “port conflicts with existing applications” and “resource contention with existing applications”, saying that should not be an issue for an experienced sysadmin… but they never explain how to change those ports anyway. That should be my server, my rules, and not their software, their rules.
Maybe you could try their docker image ? But it seems to be outdated, and it would add up to bad performances with a container…
system
April 12, 2020, 1:03pm
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