## Installation
-Please don't install PeerTube for production on a small device behind a low bandwidth connection (example: a Raspberry PI behind your ADSL link) because it could slow down the fediverse. See the [FAQ](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/FAQ.md#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube) for more information.
+Please don't install PeerTube for production on a device behind a low bandwidth connection (example: your ADSL link).
+If you want information about the appropriate hardware to run PeerTube, please see the [FAQ](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/FAQ.md#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube).
### Dependencies
```
$ sudo -u postgres createuser -P peertube
-$ sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube peertube_prod
+$ sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube -E UTF8 -T template0 peertube_prod
+```
+
+Then enable extensions PeerTube needs:
+
+```
+$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;" peertube_prod
+$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION unaccent;" peertube_prod
```
### Prepare PeerTube directory
$ sudo cp /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/nginx/peertube /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
```
+Then set the domain for the webserver configuration file.
+Replace `[peertube-domain]` with the domain for the peertube server.
+
+```
+$ sudo sed -i 's/${WEBSERVER_HOST}/[peertube-domain]/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
+$ sudo sed -i 's/${PEERTUBE_HOST}/localhost:9000/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
+```
+
Then modify the webserver configuration file. Please pay attention to the `alias` keys of the static locations.
It should correspond to the paths of your storage directories (set in the configuration file inside the `storage` key).
```
$ sudo systemctl stop nginx
-$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube # Comment ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key lines
-$ sudo certbot --authenticator standalone --installer nginx --post-hook "systemctl start nginx"
-$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube # Uncomment ssl_certificate and ssl_certificate_key lines
+$ sudo certbot certonly --standalone --post-hook "systemctl start nginx"
$ sudo systemctl reload nginx
```
$ sudo pkg install dehydrated
```
+### TCP/IP Tuning
+
+A lot of your instance's raw performance is dependent on a properly tuned machine and more specifically, reverse-proxy. We provide support for Nginx and spent a lot of time putting sane defaults in it, but we strongly advise you to follow up with instructions in https://github.com/denji/nginx-tuning as needed.
+
+**On Linux**
+
+```
+$ sudo cp /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/sysctl.d/30-peertube-tcp.conf /etc/sysctl.d/
+$ sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/30-peertube-tcp.conf
+```
+
+Your distro may enable this by default, but at least Debian 9 does not, and the default FIFO
+scheduler is quite prone to "Buffer Bloat" and extreme latency when dealing with slower client
+links as we often encounter in a video server.
+
### systemd
If your OS uses systemd, copy the configuration template:
$ sudo cp /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/systemd/peertube.service /etc/systemd/system/
```
-Update the service file:
+Check the service file (PeerTube paths and security directives):
```
$ sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/peertube.service
$ sudo journalctl -feu peertube
```
-### FreeBSD
-
-If you're using FreeBSD, copy the startup script and update rc.conf:
+**FreeBSD**
+On FreeBSD, copy the startup script and update rc.conf:
```
-$ sudo cp /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/freebsd/peertube /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
-$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/peertube
-$ sudo echo peertube_enable="YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
+$ sudo install -m 0555 /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/freebsd/peertube /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
+$ sudo sysrc peertube_enable="YES"
```
Run:
$ sudo service peertube start
```
+### OpenRC
+
+If your OS uses OpenRC, copy the service script:
+
+```
+$ sudo cp /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest/support/init.d/peertube /etc/init.d/
+```
+
+If you want to start PeerTube on boot:
+
+```
+$ sudo rc-update add peertube default
+```
+
+Run and print last logs:
+
+```
+$ sudo /etc/init.d/peertube start
+$ tail -f /var/log/peertube/peertube.log
+```
+
### Administrator
The administrator password is automatically generated and can be found in the
$ cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run reset-password -- -u root
```
+Alternatively you can set the environment variable `PT_INITIAL_ROOT_PASSWORD`,
+to your own administrator password, although it must be 6 characters or more.
+
### What now?
Now your instance is up you can:
-
+
* Subscribe to the mailing list for PeerTube administrators: https://framalistes.org/sympa/subscribe/peertube-admin
- * Add you instance to the public PeerTube instances index if you want to: https://instances.peertu.be/
+ * Add your instance to the public PeerTube instances index if you want to: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/
+ * Check [available CLI tools](/support/doc/tools.md)
## Upgrade
-### PeerTube code
+### PeerTube instance
**Check the changelog (in particular BREAKING CHANGES!):** https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
```
$ SQL_BACKUP_PATH="backup/sql-peertube_prod-$(date -Im).bak" && \
cd /var/www/peertube && sudo -u peertube mkdir -p backup && \
- sudo pg_dump -U peertube -W -h localhost -F c peertube_prod -f "$SQL_BACKUP_PATH"
+ sudo -u postgres pg_dump -F c peertube_prod | sudo -u peertube tee "$SQL_BACKUP_PATH" >/dev/null
```
Fetch the latest tagged version of Peertube:
```
$ OLD_VERSION="v0.42.42" && SQL_BACKUP_PATH="backup/sql-peertube_prod-2018-01-19T10:18+01:00.bak" && \
- cd /var/www/peertube && unlink ./peertube-latest && \
+ cd /var/www/peertube && sudo -u peertube unlink ./peertube-latest && \
sudo -u peertube ln -s "versions/peertube-$OLD_VERSION" peertube-latest && \
- pg_restore -U peertube -W -h localhost -c -d peertube_prod "$SQL_BACKUP_PATH"
+ sudo -u postgres pg_restore -c -C -d postgres "$SQL_BACKUP_PATH" && \
sudo systemctl restart peertube
```