How to Install Open Streaming Platform on Linux Mint

Open Streaming Platform (OSP) is a free and open-source media streaming platform for video and audio broadcasting. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing OSP on Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

Before you get started, it is recommended that you fulfill the following prerequisites:

• A Linux Mint system with sudo privileges
• PHP version 7.4 or later installed
• Nginx web server installed and configured
• MySQL server installed and configured with a database created

Step 1: Download the Latest version of OSP

First, let's download the latest version of OSP from their official website. Open your terminal and issue the following command:

wget https://github.com/OpenStreamingPlatform/openstreamingplatform/archive/master.zip

Step 2: Unzip the OSP Files

Once the OSP master archive has downloaded, it's time to extract the contents of this zip file.

unzip master.zip

Step 3: Moving OSP Files

We will now have to move the extracted files to our Nginx document root. In most cases, the default document root location is /var/www/html.

sudo mv openstreamingplatform-master /var/www/html/osp

Step 4: Copying and Editing Config files

Open your terminal and copy the two config files required to run OSP:

sudo cp /var/www/html/osp/config.sample.php /var/www/html/osp/config.php
sudo cp /var/www/html/osp/nginx.sample.conf /var/www/html/osp/nginx.conf

Then, edit the configuration files:

sudo nano /var/www/html/osp/config.php

Update your database information and save the file.

$db["host"] = "localhost";
$db["user"] = "your_username";
$db["pass"] = "your_password";
$db["name"] = "your_database_name";

Run this command to change the ownership of the OSP files to the user nginx:

sudo chown nginx:nginx -R /var/www/html/osp/

Step 5: Configuring Nginx

Open the Nginx configuration file with the following command in your terminal:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add this server block to the configuration file and modify it based on your own domain name and SSL certificate:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain.com;

    location / {
        root /var/www/html/osp;
        index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;
        location = /40x.html {
    }

    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Save and close the file. Test the Nginx configuration with:

sudo nginx -t

If there are no errors, reload Nginx to apply the new configuration:

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Step 6: Final Configuration and Verification

Navigate to your server's IP address or domain name in your web browser. You should see OSP's home page.

Create a new user account and log in.

From the Dashboard, click on "Settings" and then "Site Configuration". Check that all the settings are correct and make changes as needed.

Now refresh your homepage, and you should see OSP's stream manager. Congratulations! OSP has been successfully installed on your Linux Mint system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Open Streaming Platform on a Linux Mint machine utilizing a domain and SSL certificate with the Nginx web server. You should now be able to stream audio and video content effortlessly.