Jitsi-meet: Seperate welcome page (index.html)/videoconference

[subtildreams]

Hi
It will be nice to seperate the welcome page and the videoconference page

so we can have a welcome page (index.html) with the "create a room box" (and less javascript) and our own welcome message.
and another page for the conference (with nothing to hide like welcome page, create a room box, etc)

when we will create a room in index.html it will bring us to the room in another html page

it will be more clean and it will be perfect when we update jitsi meet. We can save our own index.html
the implementation will be on the new conference.html page.

hope you understand my english
Thank you

[emcho]

Hey there,

We'd rather have things like this discussed on our mailing lists before tickets are opened.

To answer your question, what you are are asking will require the implementation of a new mode in Meet that only shows a layout in the case of a lone participant and only in the beginning of a conference. We have no plans to implement such a mode in the near future and I personally fail to see how this will be an improvement to the current situation.

What I could see as a useful addition would be a tooltip advising the user that we are waiting for new participants to arrive. PRs are welcome.

[emcho]

@bgrozev just pointed to me that i had misunderstood this one and that it is actually about taking the homepage out of the app (as opposed to modifying when it's used). I agree that this is something that can be useful

[subtildreams]

Yes this is about taking the homepage out of the app

It will be more practical. Everyone can have is own index.html with his welcome page and a "create room box"
It will be easier for upgrade and less javascript in the index

And in the new app page no welcome page to hide/download
And the implementation will be on app page when we will upgrade jitsi meet not in the index

[subtildreams]

Also it will be easier and cleaner for mobile integration (css) (no more part to hide)

[bgrozev]

@subtildreams As a temporary workaround: just add your custom welcome page in another html file and have the webserver load it for "/".

[Sx3]

How to link them ?

[photoninger]

Add in your nginx config in /etc/nginx/sites-available/HOSTNAME.conf above of location /config.js:

location = / {
        rewrite ^/$ /custom_index.html break;
    }

where custom_index.html is your own welcome-page and it is in the same directory as the original index.html

[regedit15]

Jitsi Rules!

[german2209]

I have installed Jitsi Meet following the quick install instructions, and can't find the nginx folder.
Is there other webserver installed with the quick install? How can I redirect in this case the welcome page to a custom one?
Thanks in advance for any help!

[saghul]

@german2209 If you used the quick install method then you are using the builtin Jetty webserver in the Jitsi Video Bridge.

[german2209]

Thanks Saghul, as I don't know about Jetty, I decided to go by the easy way and reseted my server, installed first Ubuntu, then Nginx, and lastly Jitsi and I was able to find the file for the redirection.

[bgrozev]

This looks resolved. Please re-open if necessary