VROOM (short for <strong>V</strong>ideo <strong>ROOM</strong>) is a simple to use, web-based and opensource (MIT licence) video conferencing application.
It's based on several other softwares, most notably the excellent <a href="http://simplewebrtc.com/" target="_blank">SimpleWebRTC</a> lib.
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VROOM uses the latest WebRTC technologies to allow video conferencing through a web browser without any plugin.
There are several more or less similar hosted solutions available (like
If you want to run your own server, you'll need the following components
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<li><a href="http://mojolicio.us" target="_blank">Mojolicious</a> 5 or better</li>
<li>A MySQL compatible server (MySQL or MariaDB)</li>
<li>A webserver supporting HTTPS and reverse proxying, including websocket reverse proxying (Apache can do this with mod_proxy_ws)</li>
<li>The following perl modules
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<li>Mojolicious::Plugin::Mail</li>
<li>Mojolicious::Plugin::Database</li>
<li>Crypt::SaltedHash</li>
<li>MIME::Base64</li>
<li>Etherpad::API</li>
<li>Session::Token</li>
<li>Config::Simple</li>
<li>Email::Valid</li>
<li>URI</li>
<li>Protocol::SocketIO::Handshake</li>
<li>Protocol::SocketIO::Message</li>
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It's also advised to run VROOM on a systemd powered distribution (simply because that's what I use and I include service units for VROOM). For the same reason, I recommend running Apache as webserver (others like Nginx probably work too, but I provide configuration sample only for Apache)
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While VROOM should run on any distro, it's only tested on CentOS 7 x86_64, so it's the recommended platform.
Also, I provide packages for all dependencies in my repository, so it'll be much easier to install it this way.
If you have it running on another system, please send me your notes so I can update this documentation.
A database will be used to store rooms configuration, you must enable the server.
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systemctl enable mariadb.service
systemctl start mariadb.service
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Now, create a new database for VROOM
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mysql -uroot
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CREATE DATABASE `vroom` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `vroom`.* TO 'vroom'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MySuperPassw0rd';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
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It's better to generate a long, random password here. Just write it somewhere, you'll need it later
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Now that we have our MySQL database, we can create the tables
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mysql -uroot vroom < /opt/vroom/docs/database/schema.mysql
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Setup Apache
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Two sample apache configurations are provided in the <strong>conf</strong> directory
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<li><strong>httpd_alias.conf</strong> should work out of the box, VROOM will be available at <em>https://yourservername/vroom</em></li>
<li><strong>httpd_vhost.conf</strong> is an alternative which you can use if you prefer working with named virtualhost (but will require additional config adjustments, especially in ssl.conf, which is out of scope for this guide)</li>
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Copy the config you want in /etc/httpd/conf.d/
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In either case, you might want to adjust the apache configuration
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The admin interface of VROOM will be available on /vroom/admin (alias) or /admin (vhost) must be protected by your web server. VROOM provides no authentication at all. In the sample configuration, the access is restriucted to localhost, but you can change this to anything you want
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You also have to make sure the <strong>mod_proxy_ws</strong> module is enabled, which is not the case by default on CentOS 7
