ClipBucket Installation

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If you like to build your own multimedia sharing site like YouTube, Metacafe, then ClipBucket is a CMS which helps to  fulfill your video management needs. ClipBucket is an open-source and free Multimedia Management Script used to build a video sharing website.

Pre-install Requirements

1). Apache, MySql 5.x.x, PHP 5.2.x.
2). cURL, PHPShield loaders (optional)
2). FFMPEG – FLVTOOL2 – MP4Box.

Install ClipBucket

1). wget http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/clipbucket/ClipBucket%20v2/clipbucket-2.6-r738-security-fixed.zip 

Or you can download the latest version from http://sourceforge.net/projects/clipbucket/

Now extract the downloaded file:

2). unzip clipbucket-2.6-r738-security-fixed-p3.zip

3). cd /usr/local/src/clipbucket-2.6-r738-security-fixed

This will extract the ClipBucket zip file to your current directory. Copy the contents of /upload folder to Apache root document folder.

4). [/usr/local/src/clipbucket-2.6-r738-security-fixed]# cp -rf upload/* /var/www/html/

If you are installing ClipBucket for your domain, then copy the 'upload' contents to your document root.

5). Now set the full permissions to the following directories and files:

chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/includes/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/files/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/images/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/includes/langs/en.lang
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/cache/
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/cb_install/

6). Now setup database for clipbucket (ensure privileges are given to the db user)


7). Begin Installation

Navigate to http://ip-addressORdomain-name/cb_install/ from your browser and follow the on screen instructions. A sample installer page (fig name: CB_installer) is attached below:-

8. To verify if Clipbucket meets the Pre-install requirements, proceed to the next step for pre-checking. If everything went correct, you should receive a screen as attached below (fig name: CB_Pre_check).

9). Proceed to the next steps to complete the installation.


10). Post Installation

Delete the /cb_install folder. And also don’t forget to change the permission of directory /includes to 755.

rm -fr /var/www/html/cb_install/
chmod -Rv 755 /var/www/html/includes/


11). Add the following line in your crontab as shown below and restart the crond service.

vi /var/spool/cron/root
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* * * * * php -q /var/www/html/actions/video_convert.php
* * * * * php -q /var/www/html/actions/verify_converted_videos.php
0 0,12,13 * * * php -q /var/www/html/actions/update_cb_stats.php
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Admin Area Setup


12).  Now login to admin by clicking on Continue to Admin Area. Enter the username and password that you given at the time of installation. Or navigate to http://ip-addressORdomain-name/admin_area from your browser.

From here, you can create users, groups, collections and can upload media files so on.

Now start managing your site using clipbucket.