Installation of the MediathekViewWeb Server code

Requirements:

• node
• npm
• redis >=3.2
• elasticsearch 5.x

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Install Guide for clean Debian 9 Server

1. Java

   • sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless

2. Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.2/deb.html#deb-repo

   • wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
   • sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
   • echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list
   • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

3. Configuration of Elasticsearch:

   • sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options
   • set -Xms 200m and -Xmx 1500m

4. Node: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

   • curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
   • sudo apt-get install nodejs

5. Redis

   • sudo apt-get install redis-server

6. MediathekViewWeb

   • sudo apt-get install git
   • git clone https://github.com/mediathekview/mediathekviewweb.git
   • cd mediathekviewweb
   • configuration is done in config.hjson (the default web server port 8000; a restart is needed after change.)
   • npm install
   • npm run build
   • node app.js

7. If you want to access your node server (running on port 8000) through port 80:

   See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18947356/node-js-app-cant-run-on-port-80-even-though-theres-no-other-process-blocking-t

   • sudo iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8000