Installing a TURN Server on Ubuntu for WebRTC

Question

How can I install a TURN server on my ubuntu 12.04? Can you share tutorial? I read this tutorial: Implementing our own STUN/TURN server for WebRTC Application. But what I don't understand is how I can I install my own TURN server on my ubuntu 12.04?

I am using currently using something like the following code to create the RTCPeerConnection

const pc_config = {"iceServers": [{"url": "stun:stun.l.google.com:19302"},
  {"url":"turn:my_username@<turn_server_ip_address>", "credential":"my_password"}]};

const pc_new = new webkitRTCPeerConnection(pc_config);

And I want to fill the above code's arguments to work with a different network.

When i want to install turn server then I get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package resiprocate-turn-server

I used apt-get install resiprocate-turn-server. I also used this https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/docs/TURN-server-installation-guide.html tutorial.

Answer 1

it is easy to install in linux machines, not tried in other OSes.

simple way:

sudo apt-get install coturn

If you say no, I want the latest cutting edge, you can download source code from their downloads page in install it yourself, example:

sudo -i     # ignore if you already in admin mode
apt-get update && apt-get install libssl-dev libevent-dev libhiredis-dev make -y    # install the dependencies
wget -O turn.tar.gz http://turnserver.open-sys.org/downloads/v4.5.0.3/turnserver-4.5.0.3.tar.gz     # Download the source tar
tar -zxvf turn.tar.gz     # unzip
cd turnserver-*
./configure
make && make install 

sample command for running TURN server:

sudo turnserver -a -o -v -n  --no-dtls --no-tls -u test:test -r "someRealm"

command description:

• -a - Use long-term credentials mechanism
• -o - Run server process as daemon
• -v - 'Moderate' verbose mode.
• -n - no configuration file
• --no-dtls - Do not start DTLS listeners
• --no-tls - Do not start TLS listeners
• -u - user credentials to be used
• -r - default realm to be used, need for TURN REST API

check this wiki for more details and configurations.

now you can use the TURN server in your WebRTC application as:

var peerConnectionConfig = {
  iceServers: [{
    urls: YOUR_IP:3478,
    username: 'test',
    password: 'test'
  }]
}