

Jitsi Meet mobile apps require a valid certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority and will not be able to connect to your server if you choose a self-signed certificate.

Using a self-signed certificate will result in warnings being shown in your users browsers, because they cannot verify your server's identity. You could also use the self-signed certificate but this is not recommended for the following reasons: The recommended option is to choose Generate a new self-signed certificate and create a Lets-Encrypt Certificate later (see below) (this will replace the self-signed certificate).īut if you want to use a different certificate or you want to choose a different challenge type of Let's Encrypt (see below for details), you should create that certificate first and then install jitsi-meet and choose I want to use my own certificate. In order to have encrypted communications, you need a TLS certificate.ĭuring installation of Jitsi Meet you can choose between different options: Note: if participants cannot see or hear each other, double check your firewall / NAT rules.

If you are running Jitsi Meet on a server behind NAT, forward the ports on your router to your server's IP address. For more details on using and hardening SSH access, see the corresponding Debian or Ubuntu documentation.
