EasyRTC: Using Alongside Other Servers
EasyRTC supports working alongside of Apache, IIS, and other web servers. In these cases, your web application would use EasyRTC to just handle signaling. All html and other files would continue to be hosted on the current web server.
Configuration Notes:
- EasyRTC can be set to use a different port to avoid conflicts (such as 8080)
- In client code, you must tell EasyRTC the socket.io URL prior to running
easyrtc.easyApp() or easyrtc.connect()easyrtc.setSocketUrl("<URL>");- eg:
easyrtc.setSocketUrl("//mydomain.com:8080");
- If the EasyRTC server is simply on a different port you can use:
easyrtc.setSocketUrl(":<PORT>");- eg:
easyrtc.setSocketUrl(":8080");
- If your web server is running SSL, then EasyRTC should too
- Ensure that all client API files resolve properly from your HTML. If API's remain hosted on the EasyRTC server your HTML may need to explicitly link to them. Commonly linked to API files are:
- /easyrtc/easyrtc.js
- /easyrtc/easyrtc.css
- /easyrtc/easyrtc_ft.js (optional file transfer api)
- /socket.io/socket.io.js
- Optional: Host API directories on the web server so all JavaScript calls are from the same server. The folders containing client side API's are:
/node_modules/easyrtc/api//node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/socket.io-client/dist/
Walkthrough for Simple Audio Video Demo
Here are some steps to running the simple audio video demo from your web server. This is assuming you are running locally with your web server on port 80, and EasyRTC on port 8080.
- Copy the EasyRTC /demos folder to your web root (or a sub folder)
- Edit
demo_audio_video_simple.html- Replace all instances of
/easyrtc/ with //localhost:8080/easyrtc/
- Edit
js/demo_audio_video_simple.js- Insert the following to be the first line within the connect() function:
easyrtc.setSocketUrl(":8080");
- Start your webserver and EasyRTC server
- In your browser visit:
http://localhost/demos/demoaudiovideo_simple.html
Your own WebRTC app can then be developed in a similar fashion.
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