Upgrade resistant customization

#1

Dear All,

On my debian buster installation of jitsi meet prior to videobridge2, I did know how to implement customizations which were not completely overwritten by upgrades based in this post: Welcome Page Additional Content

Since upgrading to videobridge2, I am no longer able to apply that since the content of /etc/jitsi/videobridge/sip-communicator.properties did change and jetty is no longer in use. However, I could not find sufficient documentation.

I did customize four files:
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/images/favicon.ico
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/images/watermark.png
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/static/welcomePageAdditionalContent.html
/usr/share/jitsi-meet/plugin.head.html

To deal with upgrades currently, I run a bash script one per night which does copy the four files in place and then reloads nginx.

Is there a more elegant way of making such customizations upgrade resistant with videobridge2?

Regards,

Michael Schefczyk

#2

Put the files in etc/jitsi/meet and make locations for them in nginx config like the already existing one for config.js

#3

Dear Damian,

Thank you very much! Unfortunately, it seems that I did not understand the recommendation correctly. Upon entering the following to /etc/nginx/sites-available/…, the website does no longer work:

location = /favicon.ico {
    alias /etc/jitsi/meet/favicon.ico;
}

location = /watermark.png {
    alias /etc/jitsi/meet/watermark.png;
}

location = /welcomePageAdditionalContent.html {
    alias /etc/jitsi/meet/welcomePageAdditionalContent.html;
}

location = /plugin.head.html {
    alias /etc/jitsi/meet/plugin.head.html;
}

I could not delete the files in the original /usr/share/jitsi-meet-locations. Upon deletion, the website would not work anymore.

Is it required to provide different paths?

Regards

Michael

#4

Hi Michael,

You have an error on the nginx file. The location for the welcomePageAdditionalContent.html should be /static/welcomePageAdditionalContent.html (you are missing the ‘static’ folder).

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Hugo