nginx-rtmp-php-install-ubuntu

Installing nginx with RTMP module and PHP on ubuntu

Basic Install [1]

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl-dev unzip

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.7.8.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module/archive/master.zip

tar -zxvf nginx-1.7.8.tar.gz
unzip master.zip
cd nginx-1.7.8

./configure \
    --add-module=../nginx-rtmp-module-master  \
    --with-http_ssl_module  \
    --with-http_realip_module \
    --with-http_addition_module \
    --with-http_sub_module \
    --with-http_dav_module \
    --with-http_flv_module \
    --with-http_mp4_module \
    --with-http_gunzip_module \
    --with-http_gzip_static_module \
    --with-http_random_index_module \
    --with-http_secure_link_module \
    --with-http_stub_status_module \
    --with-http_auth_request_module \
    --with-mail \
    --with-mail_ssl_module \
    --with-file-aio \
    --with-ipv6 \

make
sudo make install

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Config nginx

Add the following at the very end of the file:

rtmp {
    server {
            listen 1935;
            chunk_size 4096;
            application live {
                    live on;
                    record off;
            }
    }
}

Restart nginx with:

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

Test

Streaming Service: Custom

Server: rtmp:///live

Play Path/Stream Key: test

Install PHP [2] [3] [4]

sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Configure php

sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

Find the line, cgi.fix_pathinfo=1, and change the 1 to 0.

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

Making PHP-FPM Use A TCP Connection

sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

and make the listen line look as follows:

;listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

Restart php-fpm:

sudo service php5-fpm restart

Configure nginx

sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Edit

index index.php index.html index.htm;

Add

# Pass PHP scripts to PHP-FPM
location ~* \.php$ {
  fastcgi_index   index.php;
  fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
  #fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
  include         fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
}

Restart nginx with:

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop
sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

nginx-init-ubuntu [5]

#copy/download/curl/wget the init script
sudo wget https://raw.github.com/chakkritte/nginx-init-ubuntu/master/nginx -O /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

service nginx status  # to poll for current status
service nginx stop    # to stop any servers if any
service nginx start   # to start the server

#[optional] 
sudo update-rc.d -f nginx defaults

#[optional remove the upstart script]
sudo update-rc.d -f nginx remove

Reference

[1] How to Live Stream to Multiple Services with a RTMP Server

[2] How To Install Linux, nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) stack on Ubuntu 12.04

[3] Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[4] Nginx and PHP-FPM Configuration and Optimizing Tips and Tricks

[5] nginx-init-ubuntu

[6] Install LEMP Server (Nginx, MySQL or MariaDB, PHP And phpMyAdmin) On Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/13.10