A very easy way to get a dev environment set up is by using Docker and Docker Compose. Once Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your system, run

docker-compose up

Once the image is built and the services are up, a brand new instance of EqBeats will be listening on localhost:8642. To rebuild, run

docker-compose build

• A webserver that supports FastCGI
• PostgreSQL with libpq
• libfcgi (or just fcgi in some package managers)
• GNU cgicc
• spawn-fcgi
• libpcre++ (sometimes included with pcre)
• TagLib >= 1.9
• ImageMagick
• Nettle
• ctemplate
• FFmpeg compiled with libfdk_aac and libopus support
• Redis and hiredis
• Optional: OpenBSD netcat for hitsd

You can set the EQBEATS_HTTPS variable to anything if you wish to always use HTTPS.

You also need to make sure that you are in the http group, as well as the user running the webserver.

You need the following file structure, writable by the user that will run EqBeats:

• EQBEATS_DIR (by default: /var/lib/eqbeats/)
• EQBEATS_DIR/tracks
• EQBEATS_DIR/art
• EQBEATS_DIR/art/medium
• EQBEATS_DIR/art/thumb

We’ll assume you put the FastCGI socket in /run/eqbeats/eqbeats.sock, and that EqBeats’s data files are installed in /usr/share/eqbeats.

Here is a sample config for nginx:

server {
    listen       [::]:80;
    server_name localhost;
    client_max_body_size 100m;

    error_page 502 /static/502.html;

    location / {
        include fastcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/eqbeats/eqbeats.sock;
    }
    location /static {
        alias /usr/share/eqbeats/static/;
    }
    location /downloads/art {
        internal;
        alias /var/lib/eqbeats/art/;
    }
    location /downloads/tracks {
        internal;
        alias /var/lib/eqbeats/tracks/;
    }
    location /robots.txt {
        alias /usr/share/eqbeats/static/robots.txt;
    }
}

By default, EqBeats will use the default PostgreSQL DB for your user, so make sure you have one and that the pgcrypto extension is enabled on it.

su postgres -c 'createuser -d YOURNAME'
su YOU -c 'createdb'
su postgres
echo "CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;" | psql -d YOURNAME

Then, import the database schema:

psql -d YOURNAME < sql/db.sql

If you want statistics support, you need to set up a Redis server to listen on a Unix socket (like /run/eqbeats/redis.sock). It is recommended that only the user that runs EqBeats is allowed to access it.

A sample Redis configuration is available in conf/redis-eqbeats.conf. A systemd unit is also provided in conf/redis-eqbeats.service.

If you want to generate the configure script, run:

./autogen.sh

You can then see the available options with:

./configure --help

After that, the usual procedure will do:

./configure
make
make install

If you’re running systemd, you can use the service unit at conf/eqbeats.service. You’ll need to have spawn-fcgi and multiwatch installed in order to use it. You might as well want conf/tmpfiles-eqbeats.conf (see tmpfiles.d(5) for more information).

Since EqBeats is a regular FastCGI application, you can spawn it the way you want though.