If you hit “Start Streaming” and don’t get an error, that’s a good sign. You should now be able to start streaming to your server.

You can basically make up any play path and stream to it, and put that path into an RTMP player, and it will play back. You may be wondering where that play path “test” came from. In the broadcasting settings of your streaming software for instance place the following settings: Your server should now be ready to accept RTMP streams. Step 4: Testing & pusing to other streaming services $ sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop This is an extremely basic configuration with a “live” application that simply forwards the RTMP stream on to whoever requests it. Open your config file, located by default at /usr/local/nginx/conf/nf and add the following at the very end of the file: and you should get the “Welcome to nginx!” page. configure –with-http_ssl_module –add-module=./nginx-rtmp-module-masterĪnd nginx is installed! By default it installs to /usr/local/nginx, so to start the server run the following command:Īnd to test to make sure nginx is running, point your browser to Unpack/unzip them both, and enter the nginx directory:

Next, get the RTMP module source code from git: You can find the latest version on the nginx download page. However, to add the RTMP module, we have to compile nginx from source rather than use the apt package.įrom your home directory, download the nginx source code:Īs of this writing, the latest stable version of nginx is 1.9.15. nginx is an extremely lightweight web server, but someone wrote a RTMP module for it, so it can host RTMP streams too. Now a bit of info about nginx (pronounced “engine-X”). $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl-dev Log into your VPS, and make sure you have the necessary tools to build nginx using the following command: Step 2: Installing nginx with RTMP module But you can also use other linux distro’s if you want. In this guide where using Ubuntu 14.04 for the sake of ease. If your going to choose Hostslim as your VPS provider we recommend using the popular package for optimal performance. Don’t worry, it’s not too complicated, but having familiarity with Linux will certainly help

This guide will cover the very basics of setting up a simple RTMP server on a Linux computer. This will decrease CPU use and bandwidth use on your own computer which results in better streams. This works great if you have a strong computer with a good internet conection but what if you don’t have those things? Well thats where a private RTPM VPS comes in to play, the RTMP servers allows you to push your streams to multiple website’s. A Lot of people now a days enjoy using services as twitch or youtube to deliver videos to there viewers.

Open rtmp server to internet