Use AWS S3 on AVideo Platform

Create AWS S3

Details:

• Only videos will be saved on S3, all images will be saved locally.
• Dummy video with 10 bytes will be locally saved, for system reference only.

Configure S3

1. Log into your console and go to the amazon s3 tool and click create bucket.
2. Create a user with credentials who has permissions to read/write to this new bucket. Also add AmazonS3FullAccess policy for the AWS user.
3. Record your Access Key ID and show your secret access key.

Enable your AWS_S3 plugin

Edit the plugin parameters

Optional - Configure apache xsendfile

Just in case you want to hide the S3 URL

Install apache xsendfile

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-xsendfile && sudo a2enmod xsendfile

Configure your apache XSendFile

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory /var/www/YouPHPTube/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    XSendFile on
    XSendFilePath /var/www/YouPHPTube/
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from All
</Directory>

sudo service apache2 reload

Uncomment your .htaccess file

sudo nano /var/www/YouPHPTube/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_xsendfile.c>
    RewriteRule    ^videos/([A-Za-z0-9-_.]+)$ view/xsendfile.php?file=$1    [NC,L]
</IfModule>