Installing via Build

Download, Build and Install

Login as Root

 sudo su -

Create Build Directory

 cd ~
 mkdir nginx
 cd nginx

Build Utilities

 apt-get install git gcc make libpcre3-dev libssl-dev

Download & unpack latest nginx-rtmp

 git clone git://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module.git

Download & unpack nginx (you can also use svn)

 wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.12.0.tar.gz
 tar zxpvf nginx-1.12.0.tar.gz
 cd nginx-1.12.0

Build nginx with nginx-rtmp

 ./configure --add-module=/root/nginx/nginx-rtmp-module/ --with-http_ssl_module --prefix=/usr/local/nginx-streaming/
 make
 make install

Create a configuration file for Nginx

 cd /usr/local/nginx-streaming/conf
 mv nginx.conf nginx.cong.bkp
 nano nginx.conf

Start nginx Server

 /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

RTMP Configuration

To set up RTMP support you need to add rtmp{} section to nginx.conf (can be found in PREFIX/conf/nginx.conf). Stock nginx.conf contains only http{} section

 nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

Use this nginx.conf instead of stock config

worker_processes 1;

 events {
     worker_connections  1024;
 }
  
 rtmp {
     server {
         listen 1935;
  
         chunk_size 4000;
  
         # video on demand for flv files
         application vod {
             play /var/flvs;
         }
  
         # video on demand for mp4 files
         application vod2 {
             play /var/mp4s;
         }
     }
 }
 
 # HTTP can be used for accessing RTMP stats
 http {
     access_log /var/log/nginx/access-streaming.log;
     error_log /var/log/nginx/error-streaming.log;
  
     server {
         # in case we have another web server on port 80
         listen      8080;
 
         # This URL provides RTMP statistics in XML
         location /stat {
             rtmp_stat all;
             rtmp_stat_stylesheet stat.xsl;
         }
  
         location /stat.xsl {
             # XML stylesheet to view RTMP stats.
             # Copy stat.xsl wherever you want
             # and put the full directory path here
             root /var/www/;
         }
 
         location /hls {
             # Serve HLS fragments
             types {
                 application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
                 video/mp2t ts;
             }
             alias /tmp/app;
             expires -1;
         }
     }
 }

To be able to see some statistics about the streaming, we must to copy stats.xml in the folder specified in the configuration above

 mkdir /var/www
 cp /root/nginx/nginx-rtmp-module/stat.xsl /var/www/

And (re)start the Nginx server with

/usr/local/nginx-streaming/sbin/nginx