BigBlueButton Web Grails 3 Deployment Procedure

Upgrade Gradle and Grails

# Install SDKMan if you don't have it yet.

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash

# Install Gradle
sdk install gradle 5.1.1

# Install Grails
sdk install grails 3.3.9

Development

Build bbb-common-message

cd /bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message

./deploy.sh

Build bbb-common-web

cd bigbluebutton/bbb-common-web

./deploy.sh

Build and run bbb-web

cd bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-web

# Make sure you don't have old libs lying around. Might cause issues.
# You need to to this only once to cleanup lib dir.

rm lib/*

./build.sh

# This will listen on port 8989 so you need to adjust your nginx config.
# If you've setup your nginx config to bbb-web dev, you don't need to do anything.

./run.sh

To run unit tests: grails test-app --stacktrace

Production

To package the application for production:

1. Compile the application and package it use grails assemble
2. You now have the file build/libs/bigbluebutton-0.10.0.war
3. Create a new directory mkdir exploded
4. Navigate to that directory cd exploded
5. Extract the war content jar -xvf ../build/libs/bigbluebutton-0.10.0.war
6. Package the content of the new directory in a debian package then add service configuration. Install into /usr/share/bbb-web.
7. Use the systemd service file provided in build/package-template/bbb-web. App will be listening on port 8080
8. To do custom config, edit /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties Don't forget to use full directories path and replace the dot before the org with the full path to the exploded war.