In this tutorial we will show you how to install YouPHPTube on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, YouPHPTube is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to video-sharing websites like YouTube. This PHP based video script allows creating a features rich video sharing site platform. You can start your own Live Video Streaming Business using this streaming platform.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Sentora on Ubuntu 18.04 server.
Install YouPHPTube on Ubuntu 18.04
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt commands in the terminal.
1 2 | sudoaptupdate sudoaptupgrade |
An Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here. Also install all required PHP modules:
1 | sudoaptinstallphp7.2libapache2-mod-php7.2php7.2-commonphp7.2-mbstringphp7.2-xmlrpcphp7.2-gdphp7.2-xmlphp7.2-intlphp7.2-mysqlphp7.2-cliphp7.2-zipphp7.2-curlffmpeggitlibimage-exiftool-perl |
Next, we will install YouTube-DL from the Python Package Index, which always contains the latest version of YouTube-DL:
1 2 | sudoaptinstallpython3-pip sudo-Hpip3installyoutube-dl |
By default, MariaDB is not hardened. You can secure MariaDB using the mysql_secure_installation script. you should read and below each steps carefully which will set root password, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login, and remove the test database and access to secure MariaDB:
1 | mysql_secure_installation |
Configure it like this:
1 2 3 4 5 | -Setrootpassword?[Y/n]y -Removeanonymoususers?[Y/n]y -Disallowrootloginremotely?[Y/n]y -Removetestdatabaseandaccesstoit?[Y/n]y -Reloadprivilegetablesnow?[Y/n]y |
Next we will need to log in to the MariaDB console and create a database for the YouPHPTube. Run the following command:
1 | mysql-uroot-p |
This will prompt you for a password, so enter your MariaDB root password and hit Enter. Once you are logged in to your database server you need to create a database for YouPHPTube installation:
1 2 3 4 | CREATEDATABASEYouPHPTube; GRANTALLPRIVILEGESONelkartedb.*TO'youphptube'@'localhost'IDENTIFIEDBY'your-passwd'WITHGRANTOPTION; FLUSHPRIVILEGES; quit |
Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘youphptube.conf’ on your virtual server:
1 2 3 | touch/etc/apache2/sites-available/youphptube.conf ln-s/etc/apache2/sites-available/youphptube.conf/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/youphptube.conf nano/etc/apache2/sites-available/youphptube.conf |
Add the following lines:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdminadmin@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot/var/www/html/youphptube/ ServerNameyour-domain.com ServerAliaswww.your-domain.com <Directory/var/www/html/youphptube/> OptionsFollowSymLinks AllowOverrideAll Orderallow,deny allowfromall </Directory> ErrorLog/var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-error_log CustomLog/var/log/apache2/your-domain.com-access_logcommon </VirtualHost> |
Now, we can restart Apache web server so that the changes take place:
1 2 3 | sudoa2ensiteyouphptube.conf sudoa2enmodrewrite sudosystemctlrestartapache2 |
YouPHPTube will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://your_domain.com or http://server-ip and complete the required the steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed YouPHPTube. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing YouPHPTube on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official YouPHPTube website.
