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Status: Deprecated

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This article covers a version of CentOS that is no longer supported. If you are currently operating a server running CentOS 6, we highly recommend upgrading or migrating to a supported version of CentOS.

Reason: CentOS 6 reached end of life (EOL) on November 30th, 2020 and no longer receives security patches or updates. For this reason, this guide is no longer maintained.

Step 1 - Install Nginx

				
					rpm -ivh http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm

yum -y install nginx

chkconfig nginx on &amp;&amp; service nginx restart

Step 2 - Download JWPlayer

You can get the latest version from their website

				
					cd /usr/share/nginx/html

wget http://www.longtailvideo.com/download/jwplayer-3359.zip

unzip jwplayer-3359.zip

Now that you have your JWPlayer installed in /usr/share/nginx/html/jwplayer you would need to add an HTML file that calls it.

Step 3 - Create an HTML file for playback

You can either embed this code into your existing webpages, or create a new file player.html and save it to /usr/share/nginx/html/player.html

From our previous article we have “big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.flv” flash file available for playback.

				
					&lt;html&gt;

&lt;body&gt;

&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/jwplayer/jwplayer.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;div id="myElement"&gt;Loading the player...&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;

jwplayer("myElement").setup({ file: "big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.flv",

"autoStart": true });

&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

Navigate over to your cloud server’s IP and playback filename (http://198.199.88.112/player.html in our example):

<img src="images/how-to-stream-videos-with-nginx-and-jwplayer-on-centos-6-section-1.png; width="680">

And you are all done!