Anyone get the new KalturaCE 2.0 working?

Joined: 02/22/2009

Points: 97

rtcwp07,
what issues are you experiencing ?
do you see any errors output?
were you able to start the installation script ? (php install.php)

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 04:52

ajaxmac

Joined: 07/10/2010

Points: 19

The script fails after supplying database details with root user and password.

I can connect to mysql from the command line with
# mysql -u root -p

but when running (and entering the correct root user and password)
# php install.php

I get in the install-log.txt

TIME: 1279600284] PrerequisitesStep - connect - CANT_CONNECT_DB
Description:
Cannot connect to host [127.0.0.1] as [root] - Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)
Stack Trace:
#0 ErrorObject::debug_string_backtrace() called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/lib/ErrorObject.class.php:17]
#1 ErrorObject->__construct(connect, CANT_CONNECT_DB, Cannot connect to host [127.0.0.1] as [root] - Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)) called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/lib/DatabaseUtils.class.php:16]
#2 DatabaseUtils::connect(mysqli Object (), 127.0.0.1, root, p0ng0b0ng0, , 3306) called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/lib/DatabaseUtils.class.php:70]
#3 DatabaseUtils::dbExists(kaltura, localhost, root, p0ng0b0ng0, 3306) called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/steps/PrerequisitesStep.class.php:147]
#4 PrerequisitesStep->checkDatabases() called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/steps/PrerequisitesStep.class.php:34]
#5 PrerequisitesStep->install() called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/KalturaInstaller.class.php:236]
#6 KalturaInstaller->run() called at [/root/kalturaCE_v2.0.0/install.php:33]

Why is the Kaltura install script calling the database with 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost? I think that's why it's failing.

Platform: Ubuntu 10.04 LAMPP/XAMPP 1.7.1 configured as per the Prerequisites page

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 06:02

ajaxmac

Joined: 07/10/2010

Points: 19

I discovered that I needed to disable SElinux after all.

i did not have the /etc/selinux/config file
I created it and put the text:
SELINUX=disabled

in it and rebooted and the install went fine. Mysql access on the network is then available and the script can connect to mysql on 127.0.0.1

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 12:36

Joined: 11/05/2009

Points: 249

Installation process on Centos 5.5 64bit went well after following all instructions, however, when attempting to access my /start page or KMC I just get the Symfony error page. I'm gonna change some things and do a re-install and I will let you know if I make any progress.

I am very interested in the possibility of running more than one CE server instance on the same server, and so I am also looking into hacking the MySQL database structure, analytics, and server monitor - although I notice that your installation guide calls for declaring localhost as a single domain within /etc/hosts, so I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew there.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 16:27

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

Hi all,

is it possible to avoid setting "lower_case_table_names = 1"? I will install it only on an Ubuntu server, not Windows Server.
This makes a lot of trouble on my server due to other mysql DBs!

Many thanks in advance!

BR, Peer

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 19:27

ssa2204

Joined: 02/07/2010

Points: 22

I need to get around this "lower_case_table_names = 1" issue myself. I have existing databases which would require conversion for each, which is not going to happen. This setting would conflict with other programs. Why this setting is required leaves me mystified to say the least. Maybe there is something I am not seeing, or simply overlooking, but is there a logical reason as to why this requirement is in place?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 21:38

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

Hi ssa2204,

I absolutely agree!
This is exactly what I thought.

Maybe this should be set in order to ease any migration to a windows platform. I don't know.

So, dear support team, pls tell us how to avoid this setting.

Many thanks in advance!

BR, Peer

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 05:16

ssa2204

Joined: 02/07/2010

Points: 22

Well it seems to me that no thought was given to existing servers running on Linux. What annoys me is to have a requirement such as this that would affect an entire database server, as if we can simply dump or change all other databases. This is something I just do not expect to see in any release at this version. I double checked just to make sure that would I downloaded was not some alpha version. Very disappointing. I can't say that my experience with this project has been positive to date.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 22:21

#10

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

KalturaCE version 2.0 installation notes:

Don't specify an IP based host/server name/location (use a whatever.xyz address)
Don't use the installation directory (the one your running the install.php file from) as the content/storage path.
(You might have to specify "ServerName localhost" in your /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file)
a2enmod your missing modules (if your lucky enough to have a2enmod installed)
Make sure MySql is at least 5.1.37 and 5.1 > PHP < 5.3 (not 100% sure about this one)

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 06:04

#11

Joined: 02/22/2009

Points: 97

hello all.

for start - the "lower_case_table_names = 1" setting is required for the DataWarhouse DB.
due to some internal limitations we could not change the DWH scripts to not need this setting.
you can revert back this setting after installation (just to go through the prerequisites step) but your DWH might not function correctly, which means you will not have some of the analytics features.

remember that the global recommendation for installing KalturaCE is to have a dedicated server, in which case there should be no conflict with the needs of other applications.
this recommendation is because KalturaCE requires resources for all l its components (batch jobs, video transcoding, thumbnail extracting, DB queries, HTTP serving), and sharing server with other applications that use the same resources might cause performance issues.

regarding Jeff's comment about PHP version - for now we require PHP 5.2.x.
PHP < 5.2 will not work due to missing libraries that were introduced in 5.2
PHP >= 5.3 was not tested, and will most likely not function correctly.

in the near future we will be working on expanding the support for PHP 5.3

Gonen.

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 07:48

#12

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

Hi Gonen,

thanks for your reply.

However, I don't get it running.
Now the installation routine tells me that "[threat_stack] was not found in the my.cnf file" although it is defined.

I am running Ubuntu. The file "my.cnf" file is located in "/etc/mysql/".

What might be wrong?

I am looking foward to your reply.

BR, Peer

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 15:28

#13

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

It should be [thread_stack]... not [threat_stack]
Check out the attached my.cnf file for details
Note: Location within the my.cnf file for different variables does matter!
(attached as my.txt because *.cnf extensions are filtered by the up-loader)

---Jeff

Attachment	Size
my.txt	3.59 KB

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 10:46

#14

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

Hi jeff,

many thanks for your reply!
It was just a typo in my posting. Sorry.

In my "my.cnf" it looks like this:
>>>
thread_stack = 262144
thread_cache_size = 8
<<<

It should be correct.
But the installation routine does not "find" it. Why?

BR, Peer

Wed, 07/21/2010 - 18:34

#15

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

under the
admin console -> Batch Processing control -> setup

Nothing is listed under either (Active Batch Schedulers) or (Configured Batch Services)
is this expected behavior? Also, When videos are uploaded to the system via. the media:addfromurl call and when they are uploaded via. the flash uploader in the kmc, the entries arn't completing processing and stay at pending/in queue...(did/is my installation fail/incomplete?)

Thanks,
---Jeff

Attached is Entry_0_zy9qowf3.txt (rename to Entry_0_zy9qowf3.ked)

Attachment	Size
Entry_0_zy9qowf3.txt	3.26 KB

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 03:37

#16

ssa2204

Joined: 02/07/2010

Points: 22

I have it installed now with Php5.2.9, and connected to another MySQL 5.1.41 (CentOS).

I got it installed fine, no errors. Afterwords I can go to http://mydomain/start just fine. I can then go to the KMC (control panel), put the page loops. I do see the page come up, then it quickly refreshes.

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 03:38

#17

Joined: 02/22/2009

Points: 97

Jeff,
please check if you batches are up by running the following command:
ps aux | grep php

it they are running, you should see a line that contains KGenericBatchMgr.class.php
if they are not, then you can start them manually:
/YOUR_PATH/TO/KALTURA/app/scripts/serviceBatchMgr.sh restart

Gonen

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:08

#18

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

Batch's were not running, running that got them up without any issues!

Thanks!
---Jeff

Only got this warning:
(Warning : using default batch_config.ini !)

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 12:21

#19

Joined: 02/22/2009

Points: 97

Jeff,

can you send me your installation log file, I'd like to see if there's anything there that might give a hint on why the batches did not start automatically.

thanks.

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 23:39

#20

wire

Joined: 07/27/2010

Points: 10

For me, I think it proved to a be a problem with the installer not failing cleanly. I had a bit of a problem with the mySQL user (had to use the root user) so the install script failed and left some junk.

First time around I told the installer I would use /kaltura rather than /myKalturaApp and caught it trying to start this nonexistent process after I eventually got the install to run through to completion:
/opt/lampp/bin/php KGenericBatchMgr.class.php /opt/lampp/bin/php /opt/kaltura/app//batch/batch_config.ini

Correct path should be /opt/myKalturaApp and manually running /opt/myKalturaApp/app/scripts/serviceBatchMgr.sh restart produces this running process:
/opt/lampp/bin/php KGenericBatchMgr.class.php /opt/lampp/bin/php /opt/myKalturaApp/app//batch/batch_config.ini

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 19:29

#21

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

Slight issue,
When uploading from the kmc everything works fine, however, if I use the addFromUrl I get an "Error Converting" message and when/if I click on the reconvert button the page goes blank/crashes!...?!

Attached is the entry ked file if it helps? (Should I attach some log files as-well? if so which ones?)

---Jeff

Attachment	Size
Entry_0_ub1cwg2k.txt	3.49 KB

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 17:54

#22

Joined: 11/05/2009

Points: 249

Well I gave up trying to get it to work on my Centos cPanel servers and went with the recommended Ubuntu 10.04 LTS XAMPP setup. Everything is working fine (as far as I know).

For anyone that wants to mess around with a test server, here you go (please play nice):

http://zeus.exseven.com/admin_console (x7host@x7host.com, x7host)
http://zeus.exseven.com/kmc (exseven@exseven.com, x7host)

Thanks for your pointers Jeff.

On a side note, does anyone know how to get the v2.0 working with CDN? It was really easy on v1.5 but I don't see it for 2.0!

Fri, 07/23/2010 - 17:26

#23

jeff

Joined: 06/29/2009

Points: 93

For CDN in the admin_console go-to:
Publishers -> Publisher Management -> Select Action [Configure]

---Jeff

Server looks good! (The only thing that was 'weird' was the names for the batch services, the listing was blank? fluke?)

Fri, 07/23/2010 - 21:59

#24

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

Hi rtcwp07,

looks great! Thanks.
Do you also have a test page at which you have integrated some player with playlists?

BR, Peer

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 00:29

#25

Joined: 11/05/2009

Points: 249

@liebesprinz thanks man - I had a test page with some v1.5 sample integrations that is offline at the moment. Currently working on one for v2.0 ...stay posted.

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 08:47

#26

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

@rtcwp07

Great. I am looking forward to it!
Many thanks.

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 16:46

#27

Joined: 11/05/2009

Points: 249

Anyone tried out webcam uploading in the new CE 2.0? Do we have install FMS/Red5/Wowza like with v1.5 and hack some files or has it been streamlined this time?

I don't have a webcam on my travel laptop and I'm dying to know...thanks.

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 19:45

#28

Joined: 07/27/2009

Points: 24

I am also interested in these issues running KalturaCE with RTMP, RTMPE and SecureToken, e.g. with Red5.

Does this all work?

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 20:32

#29

Am Nomad

Joined: 06/08/2010

Points: 14

I had Kaltura CE 2.0 running great for almost a week. Now I can't login, says it can't get Accound settings or something and no content plays. Huge frustration, I thought I had finally got a stable thing going.

Running Ubuntu 10 with Xampp 1.7.1

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 17:04

#30

Kalturian

Joined: 01/05/2009

Points: 1697

Am Nomad,

Can you share a link?
Did you change anything?

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 02:19

#31

ajaxmac

Joined: 07/10/2010

Points: 19

I'm getting errors with logs being processed. I'm wondering of it is due to a permissions issue with the files in /opt/kalturaserver.

What should the permissions be?
Should /opt/kalturaserver

be owned by www-data, group www-data
permissions 766?

Or does the etl user belong to the Hobbit server?

Other than this everything is running fine.

Also how do I find out the version of my server - I think it's 2.0.0 and I notice that 2.0.1 is out. How do we upgrade incrementally?

Cheers

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:21

#32

Joined: 07/29/2010

Points: 5

At the end of the install, when I edit the httpd.conf and add the Include for my_kaltura.conf, then restart apache, I get an error. It says Syntax error on line 12 of the my_kaltura.conf file, invalid command "php_value". I did an Ubuntu 10.4 install with your XLAMPP distro.

Everything else went as expected, except MySQL did not have a password, which differed from your instructions.

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 19:58

#33

wire

Joined: 07/27/2010

Points: 10

I had the same problem, so I uncommented this line in /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf:
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

Now php5 is already baked in, so whenever Apache is shut down it complains that php is already running. Still, it works.

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 02:32

#34

Joined: 07/29/2010

Points: 5

I also noticed that I have to manually restart lampp every time the server is rebooted. Does anyone have the script to put in to init.d?

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 03:52

#35

wire

Joined: 07/27/2010

Points: 10

While you could use a proper init.d script, the simple answer (as suggested here) is to add /opt/lampp/lampp start to your /etc/rc.local

Note: I have not tested this.

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 13:22

#36

Joined: 07/29/2010

Points: 5

I now have a problem getting to the /start page or any others after changing the IP address to a fixed IP instead of using DHCP. Is there a config file that saves the IP address somewhere? I never would have thought that.

Sun, 08/01/2010 - 23:05

#37

Joined: 11/05/2009

Points: 249

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Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:23

#38

Joined: 07/29/2010

Points: 5

FYI- I solved my start page issue by reinstalling.

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 18:22

#39

mars0124

Joined: 08/03/2010

Points: 1

Quote:

FYI- I solved my start page issue by reinstalling.

Just to clarify: You reinstalled the OS itself?

Quote:

I had the same problem, so I uncommented this line in /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf:
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

That line was already uncommented for me.

Does anyone else have ideas RE: error on line 12 when starting XAMP? I'd really like to try this product but don't have quite the technical expertise to understand the back ends of all of this...

Mon, 08/09/2010 - 09:01

#40

lelepankaj

Joined: 08/09/2010

Points: 1

I had same error "error on line 12..". But then I modified /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf and changed following lines:
From:

<IfDefine JUSTTOMAKEAPXSHAPPY>
LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
</IfDefine>

TO:

LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
<IfDefine JUSTTOMAKEAPXSHAPPY>
LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
</IfDefine>

and now Kaltura us running for me except it gives a little warning "[warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping" when I do "/opt/lampp/lampp restart". But it still works.

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 20:22

#41