Jitsi Self-Hosting Guide - Docker Installation and Excalidraw Integration

Installation Steps

• You can download the package from the following link: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/releases/tag/stable-8319 and extract it to a folder.

1. Create a .env file by copying and adjusting env.example: cp env.example .env

2. Set strong passwords in the security section options of .env file by running the following bash script ./gen-passwords.sh

3. Create required CONFIG directories

   • For linux:

   mkdir -p ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/{web,transcripts,prosody/config,prosody/prosody-plugins-custom,jicofo,jvb,jigasi,jibri}
   
   

   • For Windows:

   echo web,transcripts,prosody/config,prosody/prosody-plugins-custom,jicofo,jvb,jigasi,jibri | % { mkdir "~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/$_" }
   
   

4. Open the .env file with an editor and go to the bottom line of the file.

   ENABLE_LOBBY=1
   ENABLE_PREJOIN_PAGE=1
   ENABLE_WELCOME_PAGE=1
   DISABLE_AUDIO_LEVELS=0
   ENABLE_NOISY_MIC_DETECTION=1
   ENABLE_GUESTS=1
   ENABLE_XMPP_WEBSOCKET=0
   ENABLE_RECORDING = 1
   ENABLE_SERVICE_RECORDING = 0
   ENABLE_FILE_RECORDING_SHARING = 1
   WHITEBOARD_ENABLED = 1
   WHITEBOARD_COLLAB_SERVER_PUBLIC_URL = "http://localhost:3001"
   

   • Assign the WHITEBOARD_COLLAB_SERVER_PUBLIC_URL and the port for the Excalidraw room.
   • If you want to add additional features, you can refer to this link: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet/blob/master/web/rootfs/defaults/settings-config.js.

5. The following lines were added to the docker-compose.yml file:

   excalidraw:
       image: docker.io/excalidraw/excalidraw:latest
       environment:
           - EXCALIDRAW_ENABLE_LIVE_COLLABORATION=true
           - EXCALIDRAW_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_EDITS=true
       ports:
           - "5000:5000"
           
   excalidraw-room:
       image: docker.io/excalidraw/excalidraw-room:latest
       environment:
         - PORT=3001
         - EXCALIDRAW_ROOMS__DEFAULT__NAME=example
         - EXCALIDRAW_ROOMS__DEFAULT__VIEWS=30
         - EXCALIDRAW_ROOMS__DEFAULT__EDITORS=30
       ports:
         - "3001:3001"
   

6. Run the command docker-compose up -d and Jitsi will be ready to use at http://localhost:8000/.

If you encounter an error due to HTTPS, you can make the following changes in Google Chrome:

• Go to chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost.
• Enable this option.