trentwiles / flag

A simple video sharing service.

Flag

Simple short video sharing. Share and upload videos up to 20 MBs in size.

Self hosting

Self hosting a Flag instance is quite easy! We still need to make some changes to the codebase to make selfhosting a btt smoother, but it is possible.

Requirements

• PHP 7.2+ (main instance uses 7.3.19)
• MySQL 15+ (main instance uses 15.1)
• Apache or Nginx (main instance uses Apache 2.4.38, but should work on Nginx, you might just have to convert the .htaccess file to nginx.conf)
• Composer (main instance uses 1.10.13)

Setup

Clone this repo into the directory of choice:

git clone https://github.com/RiversideRocks/Flag.git && cd Flag

Open MySQL and run the installer:

MariaDB [(none)]> SOURCE source.sql;

Once the installer has finished, install all dependencies:

composer install

Enter your .env file and edit the values.

• CAPTCHA is the hCaptcha API token.
• EMAIL_USERNAME is your email server username
• EMAIL_PASSWORD is your email server password
• NAME is the name you want to send emails as (if you use gmail mail servers, set this to the name of your account)

Create a virtual host for Flag in your Apache config. (generally found under /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf). Our example doesn't use SSL, but we reccomend that you do.

<VirtualHost *:80> # replace 80 with the port you want
  ServerName yourwebsite.com
  DocumentRoot /var/www/flag/ # or wherever your flag instance is on the machine
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  RemoteIPHeader CF-Connecting-IP
</VirtualHost>

Add the required DNS records, then your site should be live. Additional configuration may be needed.