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Discussion on: Self-hosted Jitsi server with authentication

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Christoph Langguth

Andrea, thank you very much for this fantastic howto!

This is outright the BEST tutorial to get started with a simple jitsi server.

Still, I do have two suggestions:

First, please add the modules that are enabled on the "main" VirtualHost to the "guest" VirtualHost as well. Otherwise, people could later unnecessarily run into the same problems as I did, when they try to enhance their server with TURN functionality - see this thread. And even if this functionality is not required, I don't see any downside to enabling the modules on the guest VServer (they're already enabled on the default VServer as well, anyway).

Second, since we are talking about authentication: By default, jitsi will automatically remember (or rather, accept client-side remembered) user credentials. To disable this behavior,

echo "org.jitsi.jicofo.auth.DISABLE_AUTOLOGIN=true" >> /etc/jitsi/jicofo/sip-communicator.properties

This may or may not be what people want, but I think it's worth mentioning somewhere in the instructions.

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Andrea Giacobino

About the modules, good point! I will add them to the the sample config.

For the autologin, I consider it more like tuning then a simple installation and I prefer not to get too much into details but to keep it simple and straightforward

Thanks :)