[Ampache][2] is a a web based audio/video streaming software and file manager. It allows you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device. It isn’t a media organizer, it just use the existing organized media files in a useful way. So you must be aware of managing and organizing the media files.
**Scenario**
This how-to was tested on CentOS 6.4, although it should work on almost all RHEL based systems. In this how-to, my test box hostname and IP address are **server.unixmen.com** and **192.168.1.201/24**. Change these values with your own where it appropriate.
**Prerequisites**
Your server should have installed and configured with Apache, MySQL and PHP(LAMP). Refer any one of the following links to setup LAMP server.
- Install LAMP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) Server On CentOS 6.4.
or
- Install LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) Server On CentOS 6.4.
For instance, here i am going to create a database called “**ampachedb**” and database user called “**ampache**” with password “**centos**”. You can define database and user as per your liking.
# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 3
Server version: 5.5.31-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle, Monty Program Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database ampachedb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON ampachedb.* TO ampacheuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'centos';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye
**Adjust Firewall/Router Settings**
Allow the apache default port “80″ through iptables/router. Edit file /etc/sysconfig/iptables,
# vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Add the following line.
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Now restart the iptables service.
# /etc/init.d/iptables restart
**Getting Ampache**
Download the latest version of [Ampache here][3] or enter the following command to download it from your terminal.
**Note:** Here you can host your streaming media server site in two methods.
1. Directly from the web root folder, so that you can access your website by navigating to **http://domain-name/**.
2. Alternatively create a sub directory in web root folder and host website from the sub-directory i.e you can access your website using URL **http://domain-name/sub-directory-name**.
Here, for testing purpose, i am going to host my streaming site under a sub directory.
Extract the downloaded file using command:
# tar -zxvf 3.6-alpha6
Move the contents to apache web root.
# mv ampache-3.6-alpha6/ /var/www/html/ampache
Set the write permissions to ampache/config directory.
# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/ampache/config/
**Begin Installation**
Open up browser and type **http://domain-name/ampache** or **http://ip-address/ampache** in the address bar.
The following should appear. Click **Start configuration**.
Enter the MySQL database, user and password details. Make sure that you checked the checkbox “**Overwrite existing database**” since we already created the database.
Enter the newly created MySQL database, user and password details. Click **write** to generate **ampache.config.php** file and click **Continue to step 3** button.
