Some time ago I was looking for a program for Audio / Video Conferencing Free. the unique features required: the server had to be in my local network.
After much research I chose Openmeeting
“Openmeetings provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.” (source http://openmeetings.apache.org/)
At first, the installation was done on ubuntu server 10. Now I installed on Nethserver 6.6.
I collected documentation from various sites and I wrote my how to replicate the operation.
The installation requires several steps. Copy following commands in a shell (putty)
If you want, you try it in a test server.
Let’s start
###Create temporary folder:###
cd
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
###System Update:###
yum update
###Install Yum Utils###
yum install yum-utils
###Install MySQL (if not present):###
yum install nethserver-mysql
Enable epel repository
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Enable rpmforge repository###
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
###Installation package for decoding audio / video:###
yum install nasm libjpeg giflib ghostscript unzip libtool bison ImageMagick file-roller unzip yasm x264 lame opus sox
###Install LibreOffice ot open Office documents:###
yum install libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-headless libreoffice-impress libreoffice-writer
###Install Adobe:###
wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
alternatively with repository
rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum install flash-plugin
yum-config-manager --disable adobe-linux-x86_64
###install vlc###
wget http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/linuxtech.repo
cp linuxtech.repo /etc/yum.repos.d
yum install vlc
###Install java ###
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk icedtea-web
select new java version (/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java) with:
update-alternatives --config java
if you use a different java version correct the name1.8.0 in 1.8.X**
###Install FFMpeg:###
yum install ffmpeg
###Install jod converter###
wget http://jodconverter.googlecode.com/files/jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-4-dist.zip
unzip jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-4-dist.zip
cp -Rf jodconverter-core-3.0-beta-4 /opt/jod
###Disable epel, rpmforge-release and linuxtech-release repository:###
yum-config-manager --disable epel
yum-config-manager --disable rpmforge-release
yum-config-manager --disable linuxtech-release
###Create Openmeeting DB ###
mysql -e "create database meeting DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8';\
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON meeting .* TO 'openmeetings'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;"
(in this example i create a database named meeting and a user named openmeetings with password = password)
###Install openmeeting###
mkdir /opt/red5
cd /opt/red5
wget http://it.apache.contactlab.it/openmeetings/3.0.7/bin/apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
unzip apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
rm -f apache-openmeetings-3.0.7.zip
chown -R nobody /opt/red5
###Install java connector for mysql:###
wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.29/mysql-connector-java-5.1.29.jar
cp /opt/red5/mysql-connector-java-5.1.29.jar /opt/red5/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/lib
cd /opt/red5/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF
mv persistence.xml persistence.xml-ori
cp mysql_persistence.xml persistence.xml
vi /opt/red5/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
change on line 81
, Url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openmeeting
to
, Url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/meeting
where meeting is the name of the database.
change on lines 86 e 87
, Username=root
to
, Username=openmeetings
and
, Password=" />
to
, Password=password" />
where meeting and password are user and password of db meeting
###Create demon###
vi /etc/init.d/red5
and paste
PROG=red5
RED5_HOME=/opt/red5
DAEMON=$RED5_HOME/$PROG.sh
PIDFILE=/var/run/$PROG.pid
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/red5 ] && . /etc/sysconfig/red5
RETVAL=0
case “$1” in
start)
echo -n $“Starting $PROG: "
cd $RED5_HOME
$DAEMON >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo $! > $PIDFILE
touch /var/lock/subsys/$PROG
fi
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success $”$PROG startup" || failure $“$PROG startup”
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n $"Shutting down $PROG: "
killproc -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$PROG;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status $PROG -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $“Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}”
RETVAL=1
esac
exit $RETVAL
chmod +x /etc/init.d/red5
###Start MySql if still it is not:###
service mysqld start
###Start OpenMeeting###
/etc/init.d/red5 start
…wait 30 seconds. For debug use:
cd /opt/red5
./red5.sh
###Configure firewall:###
config set OpenMeeting service status enabled TCPPort 5080,1935,8088 access private
signal-event firewall-adjust
For debug disable firewall:
/etc/init.d/iptables stop
Remember to restart it after debug!!!
###Now open in your browser:###
http://nethserver_name:5080/openmeetings/install
compile all form, remember the path of programs:
swftools_path = /usr/bin
imagemagick_path = /usr/bin
office.path = /usr/lib/libreoffice
office.path (64bits) = /usr/lib64/libreoffice
jod.path = /opt/jod/lib
sox_path = /usr/bin
ffmpeg_path = /usr/bin
###At the end click Enter the Application and sart###
Any suggestion or correction is welcome
. Thanks. if you try it let me know if you have problems in order to improve the howto
