Openmeetings – video conferencing server on FreeBSD

Openmeetings – is open source video conferencing server on FreeBSD

Requirements:

• Openoffice 3.0 or latest
• Mysql-Server5 (or PostgreSQL)
• jdk16 (openjdk6, diablo-jdk1.6.0)
• swftools
• ImageMagick

I hadn’t had swftools and OpenOffice (and i was really upset the fact that I had to install OpenOffice on FreeBSD server) I couldn’t install it from packages because many ports had been installed before was later than many dependencies from latest OpenOffices package. Installing OpenOffice from a ports tree(/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3) caused a lot of problem, because until that moment all ports had been installed with option WITHOUT_X11=yes. But it’s a lyrical digression. I suppose you’ve been already installed required ports.

At first download  latest Openmeetings
At moment when I wrote this notes the latest was openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip

#fetch http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/files/openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip
#unzip openmeetings_1_5_rc1_r3393.zip

run the OpenOffice in a headless mode:
#/usr/local/openoffice.org-3.2.1/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin \
-headless -nofirststartwizard \
-accept="socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service"

checking:
# ps -aux | grep openoffice
howtobsd 96549 0.6 0.6 157740 52268 p0 S+ 4:58PM 0:00.33 /usr/local/openoffice.org-3.2.1/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -headless -nofirststartwizard -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;

back to the folder red5 and edit configuration file:
#vim red5/webapps/openmeetings/conf/hibernate.cfg.xml

<!– User / Password –>
<property name=”connection.username”>mysqluser</property>
<property name=”connection.password”>userpassword</property>

<!– Database Settings –>
<property name=”connection.driver_class”>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<!– for performance reasons changed to MyISAM from org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect –>
<property name=”dialect”>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLMyISAMDialect</property>
<property name=”connection.url”>jdbc:mysql://localhost/openmeetings autoReconnect=true&amp; useUnicode=true&amp;createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&amp; characterEncoding=utf-8</property>

<property name=”hibernate.connection.CharSet”>utf8</property>
<property name=”hibernate.connection.characterEncoding”>utf8</property>
<property name=”hibernate.connection.useUnicode”>true</property>

Create database openmeetings with utf8_general_ci encoding and Let’s start:
#cd red5
#sh red5.sh

Wait some time until appear
[Launcher:/openmeetings] - ##### loadEmot completed
And using 5080 ports connect with your video conferencing server by url:
http://192.168.1.150:5080 (change 192.168.1.150 to your servers IP-adress or domain name)

You will be redirected to installation page.

Posted on October 15th, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Software