In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Open Streaming Platform on FreeBSD.
Before we can proceed, make sure that you have the following requirements:
First, we need to install several packages that are required by Open Streaming Platform. We can use the following command to install them on FreeBSD:
sudo pkg install -y ffmpeg git php74 php74-ctype php74-curl php74-dom php74-fileinfo php74-filter php74-gd php74-hash php74-iconv php74-json php74-mbstring php74-native-session php74-opcache php74-openssl php74-pdo php74-pdo_sqlite php74-posix php74-session php74-simplexml php74-sqlite3 php74-tokenizer php74-xml php74-zip php74-zlib
Once the packages are installed, we can move on to the next step.
Now we will clone the Open Streaming Platform repository from GitHub using the git command. To do this, run the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/OpenStreamingPlatform/openstreamingplatform.git /usr/local/www/openstreamingplatform
This will create a directory called /usr/local/www/openstreamingplatform containing the Open Streaming Platform files.
To manage the Open Streaming Platform dependencies, we need to install Composer.
Run the following commands to download and install Composer:
sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
sudo php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
This will download and install Composer in the /usr/local/bin directory.
We will now install the dependencies of Open Streaming Platform using Composer.
Change into the openstreamingplatform directory and run the following command:
cd /usr/local/www/openstreamingplatform
sudo composer install
This will install all the required dependencies of Open Streaming Platform.
To run Open Streaming Platform, we need to create an Apache Virtual Host. We will edit the default configuration file of Apache, which is /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/defaults-ssl.conf.
Add the following lines to the end of the file:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName your-domain.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/openstreamingplatform/public
<Directory "/usr/local/www/openstreamingplatform/public">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/etc/ssl/certs/your-cert-file.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/etc/ssl/private/your-key-file.key
</VirtualHost>
Replace "your-domain.com" with the domain name for your Open Streaming Platform site. Replace "your-cert-file.crt" and "your-key-file.key" with the path to your SSL certificate and key files.
Next, edit the Apache configuration file /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf and uncomment the following line:
Include etc/apache24/Includes/*.conf
Restart the Apache service by running:
sudo service apache24 restart
We can now configure Open Streaming Platform by copying over the .env.example file and renaming it to .env. We can execute the following command:
cp .env.example .env
Open the .env file using your favorite text editor and update the configuration values according to your setup.
We can use the following command to generate the encryption key:
sudo php artisan key:generate
Finally, we can run the installer to create the administrator account and set up the database. To do this, run the following command:
sudo php artisan app:install
Follow the prompts to set up the administrator account and database connection.
You have successfully installed Open Streaming Platform on FreeBSD. You can now launch your web browser and visit your site to start using Open Streaming Platform.
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