Downloading and building the H264 Streaming Module for Apache (version 2)

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Dependencies

We will be using  apxs2, the APache eXtenSion tool, to build and install the module for the Apache server.

Make sure you have apxs2 installed:

sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev

Download

Download the source of the H264 Streaming Module for Apache.

cd ~
wget http://h264.code-shop.com/download/apache_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf apache_mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7.tar.gz

Build

cd ~/mod_h264_streaming-2.2.7
./configure --with-apxs=`which apxs2`
make
sudo make install

Configuration

Edit the configuration file (in /etc/apache/httpd.conf) so that file requests ending in ".mp4" are handled by the h264_streaming_module.

LoadModule h264_streaming_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_h264_streaming.so
AddHandler h264-streaming.extensions .mp4

Start Apache.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache start

Build & Configuration (CentOS 5.2)

CentOS users can follow these intructions for building the module instead. It uses apxs (instead of apxs2) and httpd (instead of apache).

sudo yum install httpd-devel 
sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl

cd ~/mod_h264_streaming-2.2.5
./configure
make
sudo make install

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 
Add the line 
'AddHandler h264-streaming.extensions .mp4' 
after the line 
'LoadModule h264_streaming_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_h264_streaming.so' 
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start 

License

This version is free if you agree to the  noncommercial license. Please mention its use on your website, in the lines of 'This website uses H264 pseudo video streaming technology by  CodeShop'.

Our commercial license is very inexpensive, see the following page to check if you need a commercial license.

Testing

Continue to the testing page to verify your setup.

Demo

See  http://h264-demo.code-shop.com/demo/apache/testlist.html for a demo running Apache.