Setup VOD streaming server with nginx using RTMP on Ubuntu 18.04

Install required packages for source code nginx build

# apt-get install -y build-essential ca-certificates wget curl libpcre3 libpcre3-dev autoconf unzip automake libtool tar git libssl-dev zlib1g-dev uuid-dev lsb-release vim htop sysstat ufw fail2ban makepasswd libgd-dev libgeoip-dev -y

create a directory

# mkdir /usr/local/src/nginx/
# cd /usr/local/src/nginx/

download and extract nginx tar

# wget -qO- http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.14.2.tar.gz | tar zxf -

clone nginx rtmp module

# git clone https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

Download other modules

- PCRE version 8.42
# wget https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.42.tar.gz && tar xzvf pcre-8.42.tar.gz

- zlib version 1.2.11
# wget https://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz && tar xzvf zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz

- OpenSSL version 1.1.0h
# wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz && tar xzvf openssl-1.1.0h.tar.gz

# cd nginx-1.14.2/

configure  nginx with modules and options

# ./configure --add-module=/usr/local/src/nginx/nginx-rtmp-module/ --with-http_ssl_module --prefix=/usr/local/nginx-streaming/ --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_mp4_module   --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_realip_module  --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream_realip_module --with-stream_geoip_module=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --with-pcre=../pcre-8.42 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.11 --with-http_flv_module --with-select_module --with-poll_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_flv_module

# make

# make install

# mkdir -p /etc/nginx-sites-enabled

create nginx service  systemd file

# vim /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service

paste bellow content

[Unit]
Description=A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
After=network.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 0.1
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s reload
ExecStop=-/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --retry QUIT/5 --pidfile /run/nginx.pid
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=mixed

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

save and exit
create required directories

# mkdir -p /var/cache/nginx/client_temp
# mkdir -p /var/www/mp4s
# mkdir -p /var/www/flvs

copy rtmp nginx stat xml

# cp /usr/local/src/nginx/nginx-rtmp-module/stat.xsl /var/www/
create original nginx.conf backup

mv /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf_orig

create new nginx.conf

vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

paste bellow content

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 80000;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 200000;
    multi_accept on;
}

http {
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 30;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    server_tokens off;
    reset_timedout_connection on;
    client_max_body_size 500M;
    log_not_found off;
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935;

        chunk_size 4000;

        # video on demand for flv files
        application vod {
            play /var/www/flvs;
        }

        # video on demand for mp4 files
        application vod2 {
            play /var/www/mp4s;

                live on;
                meta copy;
                hls on;
                hls_path /tmp/hls;
 

       }

    }
}

save and exit

create one nginx virtual host file as stream.conf

vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/stream.conf

psate bellow content

server {
        # in case we have another web server on port 80
        listen      8080;
        root /var/www;
        # This URL provides RTMP statistics in XML
        location /stat {
            rtmp_stat all;
            rtmp_stat_stylesheet stat.xsl;
        }

        location /stat.xsl {
            # XML stylesheet to view RTMP stats.
            # Copy stat.xsl wherever you want
            # and put the full directory path here
            root /var/www/;
        }

        location /hls {
            # Serve HLS fragments
            types {
                application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
                video/mp2t ts;
            }
            alias /tmp/app;
            expires -1;
        }
    }

save and exit

check for possible syntax error in nginx

# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

above output shows we are good to go.

restart service

# systemctl restart nginx

done !

If you wish to check a demo

cd /var/www/mp4s

wget http://vod.leasewebcdn.com/bbb.mp4

open vlc and click in media  ->  open network stream -> paste bellow url

rtmp://<IP_OF_THE_SERVER>:1935/vod2/bbb.mp4

hit play  and done !