Rachni - an nginx-rtmp-module front-end

Authors: Joel Bethke (joel.bethke@gmail.com), Andrew May

Credits: Special thanks to HDXX for helping sort out some installation/dependency issues.

This site aims to be a easy-to-use front-end for the nginx-rtmp-module. A few more screenshots can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/Q90JG There is no demo currently, but I am working on standing something up.

Current features:

• Account System -- Lets users sign up for the site, with email verification to activate accounts. Allows for password resets. Other account features are planned (see GitHub Issues)
• Private stream keys -- Each user is assigned a private streaming key. This is used to connect to the ingest server. Anyone attempting to connect without a valid account/streamkey will be denied
• On-demand recording -- Allows anyone to start recording a stream to the server for playback later. Recorded videos are stored indefinitely. Future plans to only let the streamer start/stop their own recording.
• In-site recording playback -- All recorded videos are viewable/playable from the site itself. Download is allowed.
• On-live notifications -- Will allow any user to subscribe to another channel and receive an email notification when they go live. Currently implemented simply, future enhancements planned.
• Stream API -- API for grabbing stream info, possibly other functions. Useful for making widgets on another site for current viewers/live channels. Can also be used to start/stop recording if authorized.
• Built on MDL
• Sass
• video.js player

Planned features:

• See GitHub Issues page for details or to make any feature requests.

Config information:

• This site uses (and requires):

  • Linux. I'm using the exec function in a few directives, which does not work on windows. You can probably get around this, but I do not intend to run this on windows so I have not tested. Any flavor of linux that offers the below packages should be fine.
  • NGINX with nginx-http-flv-module, http-ssl-module, and http_xslt_module
  • postgresql
  • PHP7 (I believe it should run on PHP5.4+, but I have not tested)
    • mail(); function is required.
    • Note: The following packages were included in my build of PHP7, but you may need to install them manually
      • php-pgsql
      • php-xml
      • php-curl
  • JavaScript
  • ffmppeg (for live screenshots/recording remuxing)

• This is the config string I used for nginx:

--prefix=/etc/nginx --user=nginx --group=nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --with-http_ssl_module --add-dynamic-module=<path-to-nginx-http-flv-module> --with-http_xslt_module --with-openssl=<path-to-openssl>

• All nginx conf files can be found in /src/nginx

  • NOTE: This is a fairly complex nginx setup. Please make sure you read all the conf files and make the necessary directory/config changes to them

• NOTE: Many of the administration features will require manual database manipulation currently. There is not much that will need to be done, but be aware there is no admin console currently. It is planned for future updates, but has not been a priority.

Installation:

• Install nginx with nginx-http-flv-module, http-ssl-module, and http_xslt_module (see above).
  • Verify all config files are updated to the paths you want to use. Check every file, there is a lot to configure.
  • Copy the config files from /src/nginx to your nginx config directory (default /etc/nginx if you used my config line) and restart nginx
• Install pgsql and set up your database user.
• Import the sql files from /src/pgsql to your database. This will set up the two required tables.
  • Make sure you update line 18 in subscribers.sql, line 19 of chat.sql, and line 23 of users.sql to your database user account.
• Edit /lib/database.class.php with your DB info
• Edit /inc/config.php to your liking
• Copy everything but /src and /scss to your server.
  • If you wish to use Sass to edit the site layouts/colors, all the files are in /src/css and the main file is /scss/application.css
  • Otherwise, just copy /css to use the pre-compiled versions. /css/site.css is required either way.
• The nginx user needs to be able to access the following:
  • Execute rights to rtmp_sslive.sh and rtmp_convert.sh
  • Write rights to /var/log/rachni
  • Full access to your recordings folder (configured in rtmp.conf and main.conf)