Getting Started

Step 1

Get your purchase code.

• Where can I get my purchase code?
  • Login to your Envato account.
  • Go to your downloads page.
  • Beside our product, you can see the download button, click on it, then click on License certificate & purchase code (text). as shown below:
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  • For more info on how to get your key, please follow this video

Step 2

You will need the following software installed in order to properly run PlayTubeVideo.

• MySql: check out MySql Community installation instructions.
• Node.js: you will need Node.js v21.x or latest Node.js v21.

How to install NodeJS on Linux Ubuntu?

• Update your local package index: $ sudo apt-get update
• Install Node.js curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_21.x | sudo -E bash - &&\ $ sudo apt install nodejs $ sudo apt install build-essential
• Install NPM $ sudo apt install npm
• Double-check to make sure everything is working $ node --version $ npm --version

How to install forever?

• Login to your server using command line, and install forever globally using the following command: $ npm install forever -g
• Double-check to make sure everything is working $ forever --version

Step 3

How to upload PlayTubeVideo files to server?

• Open file .env located inside script folder. It contains below values, you can replace with your data:

  NODE_ENV=production *remains same
  DBUSER=root
  *replace "root" with your database username
  DBPASSWORD=123
  *replace "123" with your database password
  DBNAME=playtubevideo
  *replace "playtubevideo" with your database name
  DBHOST=localhost
  *replace "localhost" with your database host
  ADMIN_SLUG=/video-admin
  *replace "video-admin" if you want to replace admin URL
  PUBLIC_URL=https:www.playtubevideo.com
  *replace with your server URL
  SECRETKEY=playtubevideo
  *replace "playtubevideo" with any random key
  TZ=utc
  *replace "utc" with the timezone you want to use or leave it
  CDN_URL_FOR_STATIC_RESOURCES=
  *here write you cdn URL or leave it blank if you don't want to use it
  ANTMEDIASERVER=true
  *replace "true" with false if you don't want to use antmedia server
  

• Upload all files/folders located inside "script" folder to your server.

Step 4

How to start our application on dedicated server?

• Login to your server using command line, cd /path/to/script $ cd /path/to/playtubevideo/
• Before we run our application, you need to install all the dependencies, to do that, run the following command and wait till it finishes. $ npm install --force
• To start our application, run the following command using the server "forever" $ npm run execute
• Now your node server is running on PORT 3000.
• To stop our application, run the following command using the server "forever" $ forever stopall
• For installing FFMPEG in order to enable system video files and advertisement, follow below steps: sudo yum install ffmpeg Run below command to get the path of FFMPEG which ffmpeg
  Note the ffmpeg path you need it once your installation completed. Open https://YOURSITEURL/video-admin/videos/settings#id_video_ffmpeg_path URL and enter FFMPEG path to enable upload system videos.

How to start our application using cPanel?

NOTE: We do not provide support for Cpanel Installation. If you still want to do, please follow the steps below:

• Search "Setup Node.js App" from your cPanel account.
  
  
  
  
• Click on "Setup Node.js App" link and then click on "CREATE APPLICATION" button
  
  
  
• Fill the form as shown in below screenshot.
  
  
  
  
• After filling the form click on "CREATE" button.
• Once the app created open your "File Manager".
  
  
  
  
• In root directory there is a folder with name "videoapp". Open that folder and upload all files/folders located inside "script" folder in this folder.
• Once all file uploaded open your node app which we created above. Now it look like below image:
  
  Now its showing these 2 extra options: Run NPM Install & Run JS script
• First click on "Run NPM Install" button to install all dependencies.
• After that click on "Run JS script" button, you will see options like shown in below screenshot:
  
  Select "build" option and click on "Run JS script" button.
• That's it. Now open your website, you will see playtubevideo installation page.

Step 5

Once done with all above steps, open the site and install the script.

The installation is pretty easy, please follow the steps below

How to install PlayTubeVideo?

• Before we start the installation, please make sure you have the following available on your server
  • MySql Database
• Once you click on install button, please wait for a while, the installation process may take up to 5 minutes.




• After the installation is done, you'll get a page that looks like: