Integrating Etherpad with Jitsi

I saw in the Reclaim Hosting Jitsi instance that Etherpad is integrated within the application, how did you do that @timmmmyboy?

I built ours from an Ubuntu instance so it doesn’t readily mirror things as well, but now that the recording feature is supported out of the box I do want to switch to the standard marketplace installer. I’ll do that soon and work through the etherpad thing as well to see if I can get it working again. I remember it being somewhat non-trivial but who knows with the Docker setup used by the installer.

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Here are the commands to run in a web SSH console or terminal to add Etherpad support. You’ll want to first install Etherpad.

  1. cd /root/docker-jitsi-meet/
  2. nano .env
    Edit this file to uncomment the following line replacing the URL with your Etherpad install
    ETHERPAD_URL_BASE=https://etherpad.us.reclaim.cloud
  3. rm ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/web/config.js
  4. docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f jibri.yml up -d --force-recreate
  5. nano ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/web/config.js
    Edit this file to find the following line replacing the URL with your Etherpad install (keep the /p/ at the end)
    etherpad_base: 'https://etherpad.us.reclaim.cloud/p/',
  6. Restart environment

You should now see the option in Jitsi meetings to open a shared document

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I did it this morning and it worked a treat. Thanks man!