Enlish Quick Mumble Selfhosting Tutorial

Steps on Debian Server

• Get a Machine where you Host your Mumble Server
  • Get the Cheapest VServer you get that has enough Bandwidth
  • Install a Linux or FreeBSD/OpenBSD on it (Linux will be less Pain but BSDs are a bit more secure i guess exept NetBSD and is not a good idea)
  • for Security reason please use a Public-key for SSH Server
    • On Windows you could use Putty or other SSH Programs you have there (C:\Program Files\PuTTY\puttygen or command puttygen)
      • generate key
      • copy public key
      • save the key
      • connect to server with you username and password
      • $ mkdir ~/.ssh to make folder in home that is ~/.ssh
      • $ chmod 700 ~/.ssh to only readable and writable to the user itself.
      • $ nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Edit that file there that we just create as new with your copied public key (just paste it in)
      • to close nano type Ctrl + X to push a close signal to nano. Then it asks to save and you push Y to save it and Press Enter. Then nano asks if the Path is correct what we not want to change so we press Enter again.
      • $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to make it readable only to the user.
      • Do set PuTTY Client to Auto-login username in Category -> Connection -> Data.
      • Browse to Connection -> SSH -> Auth and select Browse to find the Private Key we created with puttygen.
      • Test it with select Session in Category and Type your IP or Domain in it.
      • Open it and watch if it sayed “Authenticating with public key” if it does then it is working with public key Login.
      • Done with SSH Public key now you can use PuTTY with a Public key.
  • Install Mumble like so:
    • On Debian alike systems (Like Ubuntu or Linux Mint) you have apt as Packagemanager (Like an App Store (kind of but not the same))
      • you enter $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to update Debian.
      • Then install Mumble Server $ sudo apt install mumble-server to install Mumble.
      • On Debian do $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server to do the Config.
      • Please follow the screen what to do.
      • Then $ sudo systemctl enable mumble-server && sudo systemctl start mumble-server
      • Mumble is now running on that Debian Server.
      • Please note that this is minimum and i will encurage you to get it more secure with a firewall setting i do not do a tutorial because you could close yourself out of your server if you do make it wrong though and i encurage you also to lock your ssh to configure without password login but i warn you also here you could lock your self out if you make it wrong thogh. I will not make an Tutorial on lock yourself out because that make me in a supporive position that i do not want to solve if you blame me for that though. That Steps would be a lot better Security to your Server so please test it on a Virtualbox or other Virtual Machines if you want to make it shure that you do not make it wrong though.

Other Systems

On RPM Based Sytems like Fedora or Redhat i do not know because i did not use it. So Please read a Tutorial for using it there and adopt it from an nginx Server or a apache server but instead of them install mumble-server.

On Arch Linux i would not recomend it for servers though but here are some differences to Debian: instead of apt use $ sudo pacman install mumble-server and instead of dpkg-reconfigure you edit the files directly in the /usr/local/etc/mumble-server.ini or copy it to /etc/mumble-server.ini and edit there with nano.
but i do not make an Tutorial for Arch because it is a bit more painful i think (I am using it and i know that it is painful for normal users. Please do not follow me because it is a rabbit hole in tinkering everything.)

On FreeBSD i am using it is a bit more secure but please do read the Handbook before you make an Mumble Server on it. But with # pkg install mumble-server you can install it. And [FixME]

I will add more detailed stuff in another day or so in here