Create a `peertube` user with `/home/peertube` home:
```
-sudo useradd -m -d /home/peertube -s /bin/bash -p peertube peertube
-sudo passwd peertube
+$ sudo useradd -m -d /home/peertube -s /bin/bash -p peertube peertube
+$ sudo passwd peertube
```
### Database
Create production database and peertube user:
```
-sudo -u postgres createuser -P peertube
-sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube peertube_prod
+$ sudo -u postgres createuser -P peertube
+$ sudo -u postgres createdb -O peertube peertube_prod
```
-### Sources
+### Prepare PeerTube directory
-Clone, install node dependencies and build application:
+Check the latest release: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases or the release version you want.
+We assume in the following commands the version is 0.42.42:
```
-$ cd /home/peertube
-$ sudo -u peertube git clone -b master https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
-$ cd PeerTube
-$ sudo -u peertube yarn install --pure-lockfile
-$ sudo -u peertube npm run build
+$ VERSION="0.42.42" && \
+ cd /home/peertube && \
+ sudo -u peertube mkdir config storage versions && \
+ cd versions && \
+ sudo -u peertube wget "https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/download/v${VERSION}/peertube-v${VERSION}.zip" && \
+ sudo -u peertube unzip peertube-v${VERSION}.zip && sudo -u peertube rm peertube-v${VERSION}.zip && \
+ cd ../ && sudo -u peertube ln -s versions/peertube-v${VERSION} ./peertube-latest && \
+ cd ./peertube-latest && sudo -u peertube yarn install --production --pure-lockfile
```
### PeerTube configuration
Copy example configuration:
```
-$ sudo -u peertube cp config/production.yaml.example config/production.yaml
+$ cd /home/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 set in this file will override those of
-`config/default.yml`.
+configuration.
### Webserver
Copy the nginx configuration template:
```
-$ sudo cp /home/peertube/PeerTube/support/nginx/peertube-https /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
+$ sudo cp /home/peertube/PeerTube/support/nginx/peertube /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube
```
Then modify the webserver configuration file. Please pay attention to the `alias` key of `/static/webseed` location.
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Range,DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
}
- alias /var/www/PeerTube/videos;
+ alias /home/peertube/storage/videos;
}
# Websocket tracker
Copy the nginx configuration template:
```
-sudo cp /home/peertube/PeerTube/support/systemd/peertube.service /etc/systemd/system/
+$ sudo cp /home/peertube/PeerTube/support/systemd/peertube.service /etc/systemd/system/
```
Update the service file:
```
-sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/peertube.service
+$ sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/peertube.service
```
It should look like this:
[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
+Environment=NODE_CONFIG_DIR=/home/peertube/config
User=peertube
Group=peertube
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start
-WorkingDirectory=/home/peertube/PeerTube
+WorkingDirectory=/home/peertube/peertube-latest
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=peertube
Tell systemd to reload its config:
```
-sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
If you want to start PeerTube on boot:
```
-sudo systemctl enabled peertube
+$ sudo systemctl enabled peertube
```
### Run
```
-sudo systemctl start peertube
-sudo journalctl -feu peertube
+$ sudo systemctl start peertube
+$ sudo journalctl -feu peertube
```
### Administrator