Configure a self-hosted coturn TURN server for WebRTC NAT traversal

domain: webrtc.org · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Install coturn on your server and open UDP/TCP port 3478 (STUN/TURN), port 5349 (TLS), and the relay port range 49152-65535 in your firewall.
  2. Edit /etc/turnserver.conf: set listening-ip to your server's private IP, external-ip to its public IP, set min-port and max-port to your relay range, and configure realm and the TURN credential (set the shared secret or static username/credential from your dashboard).
  3. Enable TLS by pointing tls-cert and tls-pkey at your certificate and key files, then restart the coturn service.
  4. In your WebRTC client, supply the ICE server list with both a stun: URL and a turn: URL referencing your server; generate per-user short-lived TURN credentials using HMAC-SHA1 over the username and your shared secret rather than storing static credentials.
  5. Test connectivity with a WebRTC ICE candidate trickle test or the Trickle ICE tool at https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/peerconnection/trickle-ice/ and confirm relay candidates appear.
  6. Monitor relay usage via coturn's built-in STUN/TURN statistics REST endpoint (enable it in config) and set bandwidth quotas per-user to prevent abuse.

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