## Installation
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).
+If you want information about the appropriate hardware to run PeerTube, please see the [FAQ](https://joinpeertube.org/en_US/faq#should-i-have-a-big-server-to-run-peertube).
### Dependencies
Create the production database and a peertube user inside PostgreSQL:
```
+$ cd /var/www/peertube
$ sudo -u postgres createuser -P peertube
+```
+
+Here you should enter a password for PostgreSQL `peertube` user, that should be copied in `production.yaml` file.
+Don't just hit enter else it will be empty.
+
+```
$ sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube -E UTF8 -T template0 peertube_prod
```
Open the peertube directory, create a few required directories
```
-$ cd /var/www/peertube && sudo -u peertube mkdir config storage versions && cd versions
+$ cd /var/www/peertube
+$ sudo -u peertube mkdir config storage versions
+$ sudo -u peertube chmod 750 config/
```
Download the latest version of the Peertube client, unzip it and remove the zip
```
+$ cd /var/www/peertube/versions
$ sudo -u peertube wget -q "https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/download/${VERSION}/peertube-${VERSION}.zip"
-$ sudo -u peertube unzip peertube-${VERSION}.zip && sudo -u peertube rm peertube-${VERSION}.zip
+$ sudo -u peertube unzip -q peertube-${VERSION}.zip && sudo -u peertube rm peertube-${VERSION}.zip
```
Install Peertube:
```
-$ cd ../ && sudo -u peertube ln -s versions/peertube-${VERSION} ./peertube-latest
+$ cd /var/www/peertube
+$ sudo -u peertube ln -s versions/peertube-${VERSION} ./peertube-latest
$ cd ./peertube-latest && sudo -H -u peertube yarn install --production --pure-lockfile
```
You **must not** update this file.
```
-$ cd /var/www/peertube && sudo -u peertube cp peertube-latest/config/default.yaml.example config/default.yaml
+$ cd /var/www/peertube
+$ sudo -u peertube cp peertube-latest/config/default.yaml config/default.yaml
```
Now copy the production example configuration:
```
-$ cd /var/www/peertube && sudo -u peertube cp peertube-latest/config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml
+$ cd /var/www/peertube
+$ sudo -u peertube cp peertube-latest/config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml
```
Then edit the `config/production.yaml` file according to your webserver
-configuration. Keys defined in `config/production.yaml` will override keys defined in `config/default.yaml`.
+and database configuration (`webserver`, `database`, `redis`, `smtp` and `admin.email` sections in particular).
+Keys defined in `config/production.yaml` will override keys defined in `config/default.yaml`.
-**PeerTube does not support webserver host change**. Even though [PeerTube CLI can help you to switch hostname](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/#/maintain-tools?id=update-hostjs) there's no official support for that since it is a risky operation that might result in unforeseen errors.
+**PeerTube does not support webserver host change**. Even though [PeerTube CLI can help you to switch hostname](https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain-tools?id=update-hostjs) there's no official support for that since it is a risky operation that might result in unforeseen errors.
### Webserver
```
$ sudo sed -i 's/${WEBSERVER_HOST}/[peertube-domain]/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
-$ sudo sed -i 's/${PEERTUBE_HOST}/localhost:9000/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
+$ sudo sed -i 's/${PEERTUBE_HOST}/127.0.0.1:9000/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
```
Then modify the webserver configuration file. Please pay attention to the `alias` keys of the static locations.
```
$ sudo systemctl stop nginx
-$ sudo certbot certonly --standalone --post-hook "systemctl start nginx"
+$ sudo certbot certonly --standalone --post-hook "systemctl restart nginx"
$ sudo systemctl reload nginx
```
-Remember your certificate will expire in 90 days, and thus needs renewal.
-
Now you have the certificates you can reload nginx:
```
$ sudo systemctl reload nginx
```
+Certbot should have installed a cron to automatically renew your certificate.
+Since our nginx template supports webroot renewal, we suggest you to update the renewal config file to use the `webroot` authenticator:
+
+```
+$ # Replace authenticator = standalone by authenticator = webroot
+$ # Add webroot_path = /var/www/certbot
+$ sudo vim /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/your-domain.com.conf
+```
+
**FreeBSD**
On FreeBSD you can use [Dehydrated](https://dehydrated.io/) `security/dehydrated` for [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)
### 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**
```
### Administrator
-The administrator password is automatically generated and can be found in the
-logs. You can set another password with:
+The administrator password is automatically generated and can be found in the PeerTube
+logs (path defined in `production.yaml`). You can also set another password with:
```
$ cd /var/www/peertube/peertube-latest && NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/var/www/peertube/config NODE_ENV=production npm run reset-password -- -u root
**Check the changelog (in particular BREAKING CHANGES!):** https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
-#### Auto (minor versions only)
+#### Auto
The password it asks is PeerTube's database user password.