Running Murmur

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Introduction

For a step-by-step guide to setting up a Murmur server, read this.

Murmur is the server component for Mumble. This article is meant to give you the necessary information to configure and run your own server.

Distribution-Specific Murmur

By default, Murmur is configured to run from a regular user account, and on Windows and OSX this is the only way it works.

However, on distributions with prepackaged Murmur (Debian/Ubuntu), Murmur is configured to run as a system service, just like your webserver, mailserver and whatever else you have running. This "global" installation is a ready, turn-key solution, most of the information here does not apply to you. Most packages also include the 'murmur-user-wrapper' script, which does all of the below for you if you want to run as a regular user (including starting DBus).

So, on these systems, you can still run Murmur manually, but you will then not benefit from the extensive care that has gone into preparing those packages.

If you need to register users externally, or change the settings of a virtual server, read the section on Advanced Configuration.

Basic Configuration

Settings, Ports, and Authentication

The default settings for a Murmur server are configured in murmur.ini. Here, you can configure the welcome text, port number and other settings. However, these are just default settings and can be overwritten via the Ice RPC without changing the .ini; if you're running multiple virtual servers, each virtual server has it's own configuration, which is maintained internally by Murmur (see below).

The default port for a Murmur server is UDP and TCP 64738. Have a look at URLs to see how to publish links to your server.

Adding an authenticated user can be done through various means. Unless you need automated registration of users or authentication against an external database using the functionality built into the client is the easiest method. If you need more control you can use Ice or DBus.

Setting the SuperUser Password

Until you've set a password for the SuperUser, the account will be disabled. You don't need the SuperUser account to run a simple server, but you do need it if you want to give your regular user account any privileges.

To set the password on the Linux static server, run

murmur.x86 -supw <password>

To set the password on Debian-based systems, run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server

To set the password on Windows systems, run

<path to murmur.exe> -supw <password>

This will set the password and then shut down Murmur. To run the server, remove this parameter.

Note that on some configurations, the -supw flag will only work if the server's database already exists i.e. you must have already run the server process once.

Starting Murmur

To start Murmur,

On a static Linux build, cd to the directory where you extracted the files and do

murmur.x86

On Debian-based,

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server

On Windows,

<path to murmur.exe> (usually C:\Program Files\Mumble\Murmur.exe)

For debugging or real time logging, you might want to add -fg -v to the command line, which will stop the program from running in the background.

By default, Murmur opens it's configuration file, database file and logfile in your current directory. The configuration file can be overridden with the -ini parameter, and the database and logfile can be set from the ini file, using their respective parameters.

Advanced Configuration and Administration

This section contains different ways of administrating a Murmur Server.

Note: Most of these interfaces are created and maintained by third parties and the Mumble developers have no influence on the stability and/or security of these projects. Also, nearly all of the basic administration tasks can be completed through the client when using > Mumble 1.2.x.

Compatibility With RPC-Interfaces

For full functionality with an RPC interface, Murmur requires either a working DBus daemon or Ice installation that is enabled. We recommend using the Ice interface; DBus is considered deprecated and although it will not be removed in the near future, it is not receiving any new functionality. Once you have Murmur working with the RPC interface, you can install a compatible web interface; see below for possible options.

Authenticating With an External Database/Forum

Ice

For phpBB3, there is phpBB3auth. You must point the python script to the ini file; read the in-source documentation for more infomation.

For SMF (Simple Machines Forum), there is smfauth. You must point the python script to the ini file; read the in-source documentation for more infomation.

DBus

There is an extended example of how to use the authenticator called scripts/dbusauth.pl. You'll need to configure where your phpBB3 database resides, but once that is done you'll simply have to run the script after starting murmur to allow authentication to be done through the phpBB3 database.

Any group associations the user has on phpBB3 is copied to a temporary group on a root channel (and by default inherited to all subchannels). Please note that this is a temporary group membership and as such will not show up in the Edit ACL dialogs.

Web-Interfaces

There are several browser based interfaces which can be used to administrate the Murmur server. If you need something very basic or want to create your own interface you should take a look at Murmur's script folder which contains some basic web-interface examples which use Ice or DBus. Additionally the following table contains a collection of more elaborate Web-Interfaces:

Name Technology DBus Ice 1.1.8 1.2.0 Comment Weblink
Mumble-Django Python + Django Yes Yes Yes Yes Channel viewer, admin panel, multiserver, registration, textures [1]
MumPI - Mumble PHP Interface PHP No Yes Yes Yes Admin and User functionality; multiserver (start, stop, add, remove, edit virtual servers), registration & online user management, interface admin, admin-group and permission system, (serverviewer in repository) [2]
MAP - Mumb1e Admin Plugin PHP Yes Yes Yes Planned Webinterface to manage Server User, Plugin User and virtual Servers; request function for Server Users; useful for Server hosting; uses DBUS or Slice or nothing; Channelviewer for own homepage; German, English, Frensh; Template functions and more! [3]
MurmurCP ASP.NET + ICE No Yes Yes No Multiple Virtual Servers, Registration, Server Status, Forgot Password [4]
Simpleregister PHP No Yes Yes No Extended script from the sample folder [5]
Mumble Admin Ice PHP PHP No Yes Yes No Admin functionality [6]
MMO-Mumble Web service No Yes No Yes Manage your server via Glacier2 without installing anything. Just enter your Glacier2 connection in you MMO-Mumble account and you can manage it fully from there. [7]
Php Mumble Admin PHP No Yes No Yes Administration panel control for murmur designed for multiple virtual server. [8]

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Note: We recommend using a preferably Ice or at least DBus capable interface.

Standalone Applications

Name OS DBus Ice Comment Weblink
Murmur Admin Console Windows Yes No Add, edit and delete players over SSH [9]

Commandline-Interfaces

Name OS DBus Ice Comment Weblink
mice multi-platform No Yes Helper script written in Python [10]
RegMum Windows Yes No Bat script [11]
mmctl Python Yes No 1.1.8 - Easy to use script for managing servers and adding users locally [12]
Murmur-manager Ruby Yes Yes 1.2.1 GitHub

Manual Configuration Using DBus

If you are not able to use an additional application for administrating Murmur there is still the possibility of manually communicating with the server using DBus. You can find detailed information on this in our DBus article.

Alternative Murmur Implementations

The Mumble team appreciates and supports the implementation of the Mumble protocol. Unlike other proprietary applications, everyone is free to their own Mumble server software and add it to this list.

uMurmur

uMurmur is a minimalistic Murmur implementation without dependency on QT-core. It lacks features of Murmur but aims at working well on embedded devices like routers. It currently supports 1.1.x Mumble clients, but 1.2.x support is available, if you're willing to compile it from source (it's very easy to do). Read more at the uMurmur project page.

Mumble iPhone

There is currently an iPhone version of Mumble in the works; you can see more information about it from the Git repository. Any help with the project is always appreciated.