Openmeetings is a free web-based application that enables you to conduct online meetings, webinars, video conferences, and exchange of ideas with anyone from anywhere in the world. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Openmeetings on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we begin, ensure that you have the following:
Before installing any software on your system, you should ensure that your system is up-to-date. To update your system, run the following command:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
Openmeetings requires several dependencies to function; these dependencies can be installed by running this command:
sudo apk add mysql mysql-client ffmpeg libreoffice imagemagick sox graphviz libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc libreoffice-impress openjdk8 msttcorefonts-installer
In order to install and configure Apache Tomcat, which is required to run Openmeetings, follow the instructions below:
First, update your Alpine Linux package index:
sudo apk update
Next, install Apache Tomcat by running the following command:
sudo apk add tomcat
Now that Apache Tomcat is installed, you need to configure it to run Openmeetings. The configuration file for Apache Tomcat is located at /etc/tomcat directory. To configure Tomcat, run the following command:
sudo nano /etc/tomcat/catalina.properties
Then, add the following lines to the end of the file:
org.apache.tomcat.util.http.parser.HttpParser.requestTargetAllow=|{ is quoted
Save and close the file.
To start Apache Tomcat, run the following command:
sudo service tomcat start
To ensure that Apache Tomcat has started correctly, check the service status:
sudo service tomcat status
You can download the latest stable version of Openmeetings from the Openmeetings website. In this tutorial, we will download version 5.0.0.
To get started, run the following commands to download and extract Openmeetings:
cd /tmp
sudo wget https://openmeetings.apache.org/files/release/5.0.0/bin/apache-openmeetings-5.0.0.tar.gz
sudo tar xf apache-openmeetings-5.0.0.tar.gz
sudo mv apache-openmeetings-5.0.0 /opt/openmeetings
To configure Openmeetings, run the following commands:
sudo nano /opt/openmeetings/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/persistence.xml
Then, find the following block of code:
<property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openmeetings?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&autoReconnect=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&characterSetResults=UTF-8&useSSL=false"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="openmeetings"/>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="openmeetings"/>
Modify the value of hibernate.connection.username and hibernate.connection.password to the MySQL username and password that you set up.
Openmeetings uses UTC time by default. You can configure Openmeetings to use a different timezone by modifying the following file:
sudo nano /opt/openmeetings/red5-web.xml
Then, add the following line of code to the end of the file:
<param name="userTimeZoneId" value="your/timezone"/>
Replace your/timezone with your timezone.
To start Openmeetings, run the following command:
sudo /opt/openmeetings/red5.sh
To ensure that Openmeetings has started correctly, open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:5080/openmeetings. If everything was done correctly, you should see the Openmeetings login page.
That’s it! You have successfully installed and configured Openmeetings on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now start using Openmeetings to conduct meetings, webinars, and video conferences.
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