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Ready the Installation Environment


Info

The instructions below require being logged in as root unless specifically noted otherwise.

Storage requirement

Avalon and components need about 20GB of disk space to install.

Make sure a valid hostname is resolvable

The default hostname is “avalon.dev”, so name Name the machine this "avalon" and enter it into /etc/hosts

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/etc/hosts

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Configure iptables 

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iptables
iptables

The Avalon Media System requires several ports to be open to client browsers.

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See documentation for your version of MySQL Server for detailed syntax (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-database.html )

Media Streaming Server

Warning

Nginx replaces Red5 as the default streaming server since Avalon 6.3. With the upgrade to MediaElementjs 4, we now rely completely on HLS.

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