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> You can put different rooms on different servers. They don't have to aware of each other.

Yes. You could then use a reverse HTTPS proxy to route each client to the right instance of Galène.

For very large groups, that need to be split between multiple servers, you'll need to wait until we implement server federation (distributing a group over multiple, geographically distant servers). I know for a fact that Jitsi implements federation, not sure about Ion-SFU.

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How would I actually go about doing this? By default I can see that the process binds to localhost:8443, which is not accessible via other devices. Running the following command doesn't seem to work either:

  galene -http 0.0.0.0:8443

Using a nginx server as a reverse proxy, I have the following that works for HTTP but not WebSocket:

  server {
    server_name galene.domain.com;
    location / {
      proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:8443/;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
    }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/natfan.io/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/natfan.io/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
  }

Thoughts? Happy to move this to Github if that's easier too.

By default, we bind to ":8443", which is Go's notation for port 8443 on all IP addresses, IPv4 and IPv6. Galène's WebSocket is located at /ws, and I believe that nginx requires that you configure this specially. See https://www.nginx.com/blog/websocket-nginx/.

An alternative to reverse proxying is to use HTTP redirects: you can define a group as

{"redirect":"https://otherserver.example.com:8443/group/groupname"}

and Galène will send an HTTP redirect whenever somebody attempts to join this group.

I'll be glad to continue this conversation on the mailing list (https://lists.galene.org/postorius/lists/galene.lists.galene...).

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