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Update On: 23 Jul 2021How to install Lighttpd for FLV streaming

Lighttpd is an easy web server designed for activity, with all the necessary functions of a web server. The below memory footstep (compared to other web servers) little CPU load and speed optimizations make lighttpd fit for servers that are allowing load difficulties, or for working inactive media definitely from dynamic content. You can install lighttpd as an opposite proxy with an apache web server.

We can now set up lighttpd as reverse-proxy for apache.

How to install Lighttpd for FLV streaming

find lighttpd rpm repository

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/lighttpd/

or

yum install lighttpd

vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

change lighttpd port to 81 server.port = 81 server.use-ipv6 = "disable"server.username  = "nobody" server.groupname = "nobody"

touch /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
touch /var/log/lighttpd/access.log

chown -R nobody.nobody /var/log/lighttpd

/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart

When you get restart error like this errors then check with log file permissions.

Starting lighttpd: (log.c.118) opening errorlog ‘/var/log/lighttpd/error.log’ failed: Permission denied
vi /etc/lighttpd/modules.conf

make sure modules and including these for flv steaming…

include “conf.d/simple_vhost.conf”
include “conf.d/flv_streaming.conf”

include ” conf.d/secdownload.conf”

vi conf.d/simple_vhost.conf

example entry

$HTTP[“host”] =~ “(^|\.)www.lighttpdexample\.com:81$” {
server.document-root = “/home/cpanel/public_html/”
secdownload.secret          = “vAfddsv4$%4”
secdownload.document-root   = “/home/cpanel/public_html/media/videos”
secdownload.uri-prefix      = “/flv/”
secdownload.timeout         = 36000
flv-streaming.extensions = ( “.flv” )
h264-streaming.extensions = ( “.mp4” )
}

or

$HTTP[“host”] != “^(fotoblow.tamilcomedy\.info)$” {
simple-vhost.server-root = “/home/username/public_html/”
simple-vhost.default-host = “fotoblow.tamilcomedy.info”
simple-vhost.document-root = “fotoblow”
}

$HTTP[“host”] =~ “(^|\.)fotoblow.tamilcomedy\.info:81$” {
server.document-root = “/home/username/public_html/fotoblow/”
}
$HTTP[“host”] =~ “(^|\.)www.cpanelkb\.net:81$” {
server.document-root = “/home/username/public_html/fotoblow/”
}
$HTTP[“host”] =~ “(^|\.)tamilcomedy\.info:81$” {
server.document-root = “/home/username/public_html/fotoblow/”
}

Then enable steaming modules.

vi conf.d/flv_streaming.conf

server.modules += ( “mod_flv_streaming”)
flv-streaming.extensions = ( “.flv” )

Normally apache will be working on port 80, these entries will redirect the .flv extension to port 81. Add the following code to your apache form.

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add the following entries blow domain config

ProxyPassReverse / http://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI} .*\.(gif|png|jpg|flv|mp4|mp3)$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P]

That’s all !!!