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ConfigurationFiles
An overview of the BigBlueButton configuration and log files.
OverviewBigBlueButton is comprised of many open source components along with a significant amount of additional code written by the BigBlueButton team to implement the client and server functionality for web conferencing. Like any large open source project, this may seem complicated at first, but when you break everything down to its components, it becomes much less complex. Here's our attempt to carefully walk you through each of the configuration and log files to help you understand how to modify and extend BigBlueButton yourself. The configuration files show an IP address of 192.168.0.100 -- you'll need to change it to match your local IP address when setting up BigBlueButton. Note: We used to have lots of detailed comments in this wiki page, but we found ourselves duplicating the comments in the code, so (as not to duplicate docs), we have moved most of the comments into the configuration files themselves, so do follow the links to see the comments in the configuration files. nginxConfiguration filesLocated in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/bigbluebutton Log files/var/log/nginx/bigbluebutton.access.logWeb log of access to BigBlueButton HTML pages. /var/log/nginx/error.logWeb log of errors generated by nginx based on browser requests. Red5Configuration files/usr/share/red5/conf/red5-core.xmlUncommented RTMPT section. This was commented out by default starting on Red5 0.8 release. Follow this thread http://osflash.org/pipermail/red5_osflash.org/2009-June/033842.html for the reason. /usr/share/red5/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/bigbluebutton.propertiesProperties for bbb-apps, the core BigBlueButton red5 module. /usr/share/red5/webapps/sip/WEB-INF/bigbluebutton-sip.propertiesProperties for bbb-apps-sip, which specifies the range of ports for connecting to the Asterisk or FreeSWITCH server. Used with bbb_sip.conf. /usr/share/red5/log/deskshare.logDebug output from the deskshare red5 application, which is the red5 server component for supporting desktop sharing in the BigBlueButton client. /usr/share/red5/log/sip.logDebug output from the sip red5 application, which is the red5 server component (based on Red5Phone) for supporting voice over IP in the BigBlueButton client. /usr/share/red5/log/video.logDebug output from the video red5 application, which is the red5 server component for supporting video in the BigBlueButton client. tomcat6Configuration files/var/lib/tomcat/webapps/bigbluebutton/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.propertiesThis is one of the main configuration file for BigBlueButton applications. Log files/var/log/tomcat6catalina.yyyy-mm-dd.log General log information from startup of tomcat6 localhost.yyyy-mm-dd.log General log information from startup of tomcat applications /var/log/syslogAlso contains output from tomcat6. /var/log/bigbluebuttonbbb-web.log Contains BigBlueButton grails app logs. AsteriskConfiguration files/etc/asterisk/bbb_extensions.conf/etc/asterisk/manager.d/bigbluebutton.conf/etc/asterisk/bbb_sip.confClick here to view the latest version Aditional Stepsextensions.confYou must to edit the file: /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf and add the following line on the bottom of the file: #include "bbb_extensions.conf" sip.confYou must to edit the file: /etc/asterisk/sip.conf and add the following line on the bottom of the file: #include "bbb_sip.conf" FreeSWITCHConfiguration Filesvars.xmlTo change codecs from Ulaw to Speex16, change global_codec_prefs On a production server, this file is by default located in /opt/freeswitch/conf/vars.xml conference.conf.xmlTo change conference properties, public.xmlTo change conference number format, change bbb_conferences BigBlueButton Client (Flash)Enabling and Disabling client featuresCheck the client configuration page. Configuration File/var/www/bigbluebutton/client/conf/config.xml | |
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