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VROOM (short for Video ROOM) 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 SimpleWebRTC lib.
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 talky.io, appear.in, vLine.com for example). Most of them are more polished than VROOM, but I've found none entirely opensource, so I started this project.
VROOM implements the following features:
VROOM is translated in French and English. You're welcome to submit patches or pull requests to enhance localization, or add new ones.
If you want to run your own server, you'll need the following components
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.
This guide assumes that you have installed a minimal CentOS 7 x86_64 system
You need to configure both EPEL and FWS repo
cat <<'_EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/fws.repo [fws] enabled=1 baseurl=http://repo.firewall-services.com/centos/$releasever/ name=Firewall Services gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://repo.firewall-services.com/RPM-GPG-KEY enablegroups=0 [fws-testing] enabled=0 baseurl=http://repo.firewall-services.com/centos-testing/$releasever/ name=Firewall Services Testing gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://repo.firewall-services.com/RPM-GPG-KEY enablegroups=0 _EOF yum install epel-release
The follwoing command will install everything required to run VROOM
yum install git tar wget httpd mod_ssl openssl mariadb-server \\ 'perl(Mojolicious)' 'perl(Mojolicious::Plugin::I18N)' 'perl(Mojolicious::Plugin::Mail)' \\ 'perl(Crypt::SaltedHash)' 'perl(Etherpad::API)' 'perl(LWP::Protocol::https)' \\ 'perl(Sesion::Token)' 'perl(Mojolicious::Plugin::Database)' 'perl(Email::Valid)' \\ 'perl(Config::Simple)' 'perl(Session::Token)' 'perl(URI)'
Lets install VROOM in /opt/vroom
cd /opt git clone https://github.com/dani/vroom.git
A database will be used to store rooms configuration, you must enable the server.
systemctl enable mariadb.service systemctl start mariadb.serviceNow, create a new database for VROOM
mysql -uroot
CREATE DATABASE `vroom` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `vroom`.* TO 'vroom'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MySuperPassw0rd'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
It's better to generate a long, random password here. Just write it somewhere, you'll need it later
Now that we have our MySQL database, we can create the tables
mysql -uroot vroom < /opt/vroom/docs/database/schema.mysql
Two sample apache configurations are provided in the conf directory
In either case, you might want to adjust the apache configuration
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
You also have to make sure the mod_proxy_ws module is enabled, which is not the case by default on CentOS 7
echo "LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so" \\ > /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-proxy_ws.conf
Here, we'll copy the sample vroom.service unit so that systemd picks it up
cp /opt/vroom/docs/systemd/vroom.service /etc/systemd/system/ systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable vroom
Now, we just need to configure vroom itself. Just copy the sample conf file
cp /opt/vroom/conf/settings.ini.dist /opt/vroom/conf/settings.iniAnd edit it to your need