Jitsi disconnects/reloads (probably due to Parsody permission problem)

Install & Config
#1

[Ubuntu16.04, Apache2, jitsi-meet]

Hi, I’ve installed Jitsi-Meet on my server and the welcome screen shows up and allows me to create a conference room (albeit without a password at the moment) which I can ‘join’ from my laptop and phone. Though I am able to enter the room, neither connection is able to see the other (no video or text messages echo) and after a short period, they each get disconnected whereby a countdown timer commences to rejoin. I’ve seen this screen mentioned many times while trying to solve this problem.

The problem seems to be related to Prosody and a permission error its getting whilst attempting to access my Lets Encrypt keys. According to https://prosody.im/doc/certificates, I should be setting the permissions on my keys to 640 and root:parsody, but I really don’t like that and everything else on my server works fine with 600 and root:root.

I have no prior knowledge with either Jitsi nor Parsody, so I’m not sure how to proceed. Any suggestions on how to manage this securely? Cheers.

#2

please use Ubuntu 18.04

#3

Unfortunately, that’s not an option right now.

#4

Permissions fixed (temporarily) by copying the certificates from ./letsencrypt into ./parsody/certs and adjusting permissions there.
With the permissions fixed, the disconnect/reconnect problem had to do with the various js files having the incorrect domain in them. When I originally installed Jitsi-Meet, I mistakenly used the hostname in the configuration settings. I updated all these with the correct domain and now I’m not being booted from the meeting room.
I still have the video/audio to fix up, though messages (and ‘raise hand’ are working).