Install Ampache Streaming Media Server On CentOS 6.4
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[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.

And install the following PHP modules too.

    # yum install php-mcrypt php-pdo php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-xml libtool-ltdl mhash mcrypt -y

**Create Database and User for Ampache**

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.

    # wget https://github.com/ampache/ampache/archive/3.6-alpha6.zip

**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**.

![](http://180016988.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ampache-Pour-lAmour-de-la-Musique-Install-Mozilla-Firefox_001.png)

Enter the MySQL database, user and password details. Make sure that you checked the checkbox “**Overwrite existing database**” since we already created the database.

![](http://180016988.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ampache-Pour-lAmour-de-la-Musique-Install-Mozilla-Firefox_004.png)

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.

![](http://180016988.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ampache-Pour-lAmour-de-la-Musique-Install-Mozilla-Firefox_006.png)

Now you will be asked to setup the **admin** user password. Enter the password and click **Create Account**.

![](http://180016988.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ampache-Pour-lAmour-de-la-Musique-Install-Mozilla-Firefox_008.png)

Finally Ampache will ask you to update to the most recent version. Click on Update.

![](http://180016988.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Ampache-Update-Mozilla-Firefox_010.png)

That’s it. Ampache has been installed now. I recommend you to read the Official Ampache Wiki page for further configurations.

via:http://www.unixmen.com/setup-streaming-media-server-ampache/

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[1]:http://www.unixmen.com/setup-streaming-media-server-ampache/
[2]:https://github.com/ampache/ampache/
[3]:https://github.com/ampache/ampache/tags