This blog post will help you to enable SSL for Ant Media Server. Enabling SSL is not mandatory for all cases. However, it’s mandatory when requesting access to the mic and camera. It’s not mandatory for playing streams HTTPS and WSS (WebSocket Secure) are mandatory for Google Chrome to run WebRTC and WebSocket applications.
In addition, developers want to serve their content with a secure connection as well. The script in this post installs the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate.
Enable SSL in Linux(Ubuntu)
Go to the folder where Ant-Media-Server is installed. Default directory is /usr/local/antmedia
cd /usr/local/antmediaIf there is a service that uses 80 port, you need to disable it. If your system has Apache Web Server, you need to disable it first such a command below
sudo service apache2 stop
There should be a enable_ssl.sh file in the installation directory. Call the enable_ssl.sh with your domain name
sudo ./enable_ssl.sh -d example.com
enable_ssl.sh script supports external fullchain.pem, chain.pem and privkey.pem files as in the following format
sudo ./enable_ssl.sh -f {FULL_CHAIN_FILE} -p {PRIVATE_KEY_FILE} -c {CHAIN_FILE} -d {DOMAIN_NAME}
Ex:
sudo ./enable_ssl.sh -f yourdomain.crt -p yourdomain.key -c yourdomainchain.crt -d yourdomain.com
sudo ./enable_ssl.sh -f yourdomain.pem -p yourdomain.key -c yourdomainchain.pem -d yourdomain.com
If you disable any service that binds to 80 port such as Apache Web Server, enable it again
sudo service apache2 start
Make sure that your domain points to your server’s public IP address in the DNS records
If the above scripts return successfully, SSL will be installed on your server, you can use HTTPS through 5443. Like below
https://example.com:5443
ATTENTION: If port 80 is used by some other process or it’s forwarded to some other port, enable_ssl.sh will not be successful. Please disable the process or delete the port forwarding temporarily before running the enable_ssl.sh script above
That’s all. I hope this small blog post will help you in enabling SSL. By the way, please let us know if you have a question or need help with this issue or any other one.
