Openmeeting in CentOS

OpenMeetings is open source software which is used for presenting, online training, web conferencing, collaborative white board drawing and document editing and user desktop sharing. The product is developed a group of open source components, like (ImageMagick, GhostScript, SWFTools, JODConverter ,FFMpeg and OpenOffice or Libre Office) and main functionality on this product is OpenLaszlo RIA framework and Red5 media server.

## Install Required Packages..

yum install wget gcc-c++ unzip zlib-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel giflib-devel ghostscript ImageMagick sox libreoffice libreoffice-headless tomcat-native

## Install and Configure MyQL database to store data

yum install mysql-server

# mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE openmeetings DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8';
mysql> CREATE USER 'openmeetings'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openmeetings';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON openmeetings.* TO 'openmeetings'@'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit

## Install Swift Tools to support utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files)

# wget http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
# tar -xzvf swftools-0.9.2.tar.gz
# cd swftools-0.9.2
# ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin
# make
# make install
rm -f /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf -o -L /usr/local/share/swftools/swfs/default_viewer.swf

## ##  Java Version checking and Update to 1.8 and also set home directory

 cd /opt

wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u121-b13/e9e7ea248e2c4826b92b3f075a80e441/jdk-8u121-linux-x64.tar.gz"

tar -zxvf jdk-8u121-linux-x64.tar.gz 

alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/java 2

alternatives --config java

java -version

alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /opt/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/jar 2

alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/javac 2

alternatives --set jar /opt/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/jar

alternatives --set javac /opt/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/javac

java -version

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_121

export JRE_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_121/jre

vi /etc/bashrc 

printenv 

 ## Java MySQL connector

wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.41.tar.gz

tar -zxvf mysql-connector-java-5.1.41.tar.gz 

## Dowload openmeeting and put JAVA jar file to specific location

mkdir /openmeetings

cd /openmeetings

wget http://apache.petsads.us/openmeetings/3.0.2/bin/apache-openmeetings-3.0.2.tar.gz

tar -xzvf apache-openmeetings-3.0.2.tar.gz

cd /opt/mysql-connector-java-5.0.8

cp mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar /openmeetings/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/lib

## Install ffmpeg for audio video stream

cd /opt

wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-1.1.1.tar.gz

./configure --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin --enable-libmp3lame --disable-yasm

make

make install

##  lame Installation for “LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder”

cd /opt

wget http://kaz.dl.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.5.tar.gz

tar -xzvf lame-3.99.5.tar.gz

 ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin

make

make install

## Connect with MySQL database 

cd /openmeetings/webapps/openmeetings/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF

cp persistence.xml persistence.xml.bk.live

cp mysql_persistence.xml persistence.xml

Assign your mysql username and its password to configuration file. Make your you need to add your database username and password instead of us.

# vi persistence.xml

                                        , Url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/openmeetings?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&cha$

                                        , MaxActive=100

                                        , MaxWait=10000

                                        , TestOnBorrow=true

                                        , poolPreparedStatements=true

                                        , Username=openmeetings

                                        , Password=openmeetings" />

## Start Red5 server.

cd /openmeetings

./red5.sh

### Install script to start server Automatically...

vi /etc/init.d/red5 

########################

#vi /etc/init.d/red5

#!/bin/sh -e

#

# Startup script for Red5

export RED5_HOME=/openmeetings/

start_red5="$RED5_HOME/red5.sh"

stop_red5="$RED5_HOME/red5-shutdown.sh"

start() {

echo -n "Starting Red5: " 

${start_red5} &

echo "done."

}

stop() {

echo -n "Shutting down Red5: " 

${stop_red5}

echo "done."

}

case "$1" in

start)

start

;;

stop)

stop

;;

restart)

stop

sleep 10

start

;;

*)

echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"

esac

exit 0

##===================

chmod +x /etc/init.d/red5

service red5 stop

chkconfig red5 on

service red5 start

###### Complete installation from web browser...

 http://serverip:5080/openmeetings/install 

This is welcome page and this step Just follow the instruction carefully and click NEXT button.

Give username password email address for next time login.

Set everything default (if no specific requirement) and also no need to set application paths

 

############# Enjoy #################################################