Self Hosted Videos.

  • Resolved jamesm46

    (@jamesm46)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I hope you can help. I am using the free version of the All-in-one video gallery. I am trying to host my church’s Sermon Video gallery on my own Ubuntu 23 server. We are running out of free space on YouTube and have decided to archive most of the older ones to my Ubuntu/WordPress server. This plugin seemed to offer what we needed.

    However, since all the mp4 files are at least 3.5 GBytes in size and more, it is not possible to download them using WordPress. So, on the Ubuntu Server I have created a subfolder under the main website’s home directory called “videos” (not very imaginative I know). I have manually set everything to be owned by “www-data” with a group of “www-data” with “rw-rw-rw-” permissions. I a, starting to download the videos from YouTube to this directory.

    In the plugin, I have left the “Source Type” as “Self Hosted / External URL” and set the “Video File” to “http://sermonarchive.org.uk/videos/psalm63.mp4” and several other variations of the video file URL But it just won’t play! What am I doing wrong or what have I missed?

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  • Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    I confirm the steps you have followed are correct. Have you tried opening the video URL directly in your browser? If the URL is valid, then the browser will play the video.

    I tried to check this on my own. But, the Chrome browser throws a security warning when opening your URL. To double-check this, I checked your website on the Norton website. I see the security warning there too. Here is a relevant link https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsermonarchive.org.uk%2Fvideos%2Fpsalm63.mp4

    Kindly fix the security issue first. Sorry, we cannot take the risk of opening your website to further investigate the issue until it has been confirmed as safe.

    Thanks for understanding!

    Thread Starter jamesm46

    (@jamesm46)

    Thank you for your help. But I have solved it. For some reason, I had to have “rwxrw-rw-” as the Linux permissions on the directories I created. rather than “rw-rw-rw-“. Strange but it solved it.

    Plugin Contributor wpvideogallery

    (@wpvideogallery)

    Great!

    I’m happy that your issue is solved.

    Please feel free to contact us for further questions.

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