Jitsi Meet Installation with JWT token

#add dns for meet.mydomain.com to point to public ip for vm
# Open ports on network security group
# 80/tcp
# 443/tcp
# 4443/tcp
# 10000/udp

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname meet.mydomain.com

sudo nano /etc/hosts
#manually append 
#127.0.0.1 meet.mydomain.com

wget https://prosody.im/files/prosody-debian-packages.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://packages.prosody.im/debian $(lsb_release -sc) main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install prosody

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

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet

#manually type
#meet.mydomain.com
#choose self-signed cert for now

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt -y install certbot

sudo /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
#enter [email protected]

sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet-tokens
#enter app id
#enter app secret

sudo nano /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua
#c2s_require_encryption=false

sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/meet.mydomain.com.cfg.lua
#authentication="token"
#app_id="myappid"
#app_secret="myappsecret"
#allow_empty_token=false
#further down remove comment from -- "token_verifification"

#Fix permissions on localhost key
sudo chown root:prosody /etc/prosody/certs/localhost.key
sudo chmod 644 /etc/prosody/certs/localhost.key

sudo apt-get -y install lua5.2  liblua5.2 luarocks
sudo luarocks install basexx
sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev
sudo luarocks install luacrypto

sudo luarocks download lua-cjson
sudo luarocks unpack lua-cjson-2.1.0.6-1.src.rock
cd lua-cjson-2.1.0.6-1/lua-cjson/
sudo nano lua_cjson.c 
#line 743: change to
#            len = lua_rawlen(l, -1);
sudo nano Makefile 
#change  
#        LUA_INCLUDE_DIR =   /usr/include/lua5.2
sudo luarocks make
cd ../../

sudo luarocks install luajwtjitsi

#install again
sudo apt-get install -y jitsi-meet jitsi-meet-tokens

sudo rm /var/log/prosody/prosody.err
sudo systemctl restart prosody.service
sudo systemctl restart jicofo.service
sudo systemctl restart jitsi-videobridge2.service

sudo cat /var/log/prosody/prosody.err

For more details => https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/issues/1082#issuecomment-616948457

Use this JWT Payload on jwt.io

{
  "context": {
    "user": {
      "avatar": "https:/gravatar.com/avatar/abc125",
      "name": "Rohit",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": "24"
    }
  },
  "aud": "jitsi",
  "iss": "appid",
  "sub": "meet.domain.com",
  "room": "*",
  "exp": 1600006923
}

For setting up multiple videobrdiges https://dev.to/danny899/how-to-configure-jitsi-meet-with-multiple-videobridge-nodes-2a4k

Note

To update Existing installation run these commands

wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list"
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet