Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.04

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MongoDB

Petio supports two ways of connecting to a Mongo Database instance, locally or remote. We recommend the locally hosted MongoDB option.

MongoDB Locally

Make sure to add the correct repository to apt depending on whether you're using Debian or Ubuntu.

• Import the public key used by the package management system:

wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.4.asc | sudo apt-key add -

• Create the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list file:

Debian 10

echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian buster/mongodb-org/4.4 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.4.list

Ubuntu 20.04

• Reload local package database:

sudo apt-get update

• Install the MongoDB packages:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

• Start MongoDB:

sudo systemctl start mongod

• Verify that MongoDB has started successfully:

sudo systemctl status mongod

• To make sure MongoDB starts after restart use:

sudo systemctl enable mongod

MongoDB Locally - On A Different Host

By default, MongoDB doesn’t allow remote connections.

• Locate your mongod.conf and edit it with your favorite editor. Include any local IP addresses you want to allow to connect to your MongoDB instance.

vim /etc/mongod.conf
# /etc/mongod.conf
# Listen to local and LAN interfaces.
bind_ip = 127.0.0.1,192.168.161.100

• Restart the mongod service after making these changes

sudo systemctl restart mongod

If there is a firewall, you might need to use iptables to allow access to MongoDB. Example below:

• Any connections can connect to MongoDB on port 27017

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 27017 -j ACCEPT

• Only certain IPs can connect to MongoDB on port 27017

iptables -A INPUT -s <ip-address> -p tcp --destination-port 27017 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -d <ip-address> -p tcp --source-port 27017 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

MongoDB Remotely

• Register for Atlas here.

• Create a free cluster.

• Change the provider or region if you need to. It may take some time to create the cluster.

• After the cluster is made, click on connect and select MongoDB Compass and follow the instructions on screen.

• Move on to the next section to start installing Petio.

Installing Petio

• Create a user for Petio:

sudo useradd -M --shell=/bin/false petio

• Make a directory for Petio:

sudo mkdir /opt/Petio

• Download the latest version of Petio:

sudo wget https://petio.tv/releases/latest -O petio-latest.zip

• Extract Petio to the directory we just made:

sudo unzip petio-latest.zip -d /opt/Petio

• Change ownership of the directory for Petio:

sudo chown -R petio:petio /opt/Petio

• Create the petio service with systemd:

/etc/systemd/system/petio.service

[Unit]
Description=Petio a content request system
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1
ExecStart=/opt/Petio/bin/petio-linux
User=petio

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Reload systemd:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

• Start Petio:

sudo systemctl start petio

Once you've completed theses steps, you can navigate to http://<hostname>:7777 to start configuring Petio.