How To Setup a Shoutcast Server on Ubuntu
With a Shoutcast server, you can setup your own radio station for others to listen. In this guide, I’ll teach you how to setup a Shoutcast server on Ubuntu. Follow the steps below.
Step 1: Creating a user
For security reasons, we’re going to create a new user:
adduser shoutcast
Enter the required information and su to the new user:
su shoutcast
Step 2: Downloading Shoutcast
Go to the user’s home directory:
cd ~
Download Shoutcast with wget:
wget http://download.nullsoft.com/shoutcast/tools/sc_serv2_linux_x64_09_09_2014.tar.gz
Now, extract the file:
tar xfz sc*
Next, create a folder for the Shoutcast server. All of the important files will be placed here:
mkdir ../shoutcast
Copy the files to this new folder:
cp sc_serv ../shoutcast
Next, navigate to this directory:
cd ../shoutcast
Shoutcast is installed, now we just need to configure it.
Step 3: Configuring Shoutcast
Create the following folders so that Shoutcast functions correctly:
mkdir control
mkdir logs
Create the configuration file and open it with a text editor:
sc_serv.conf
Append the following to the file:
adminpassword=password
password=password1
requirestreamconfigs=1
streamadminpassword_1=password2
streamid_1=1
streampassword_1=password3
streampath_1=http://ServerIP:8000
logfile=logs/sc_serv.log
w3clog=logs/sc_w3c.log
banfile=control/sc_serv.ban
ripfile=control/sc_serv.rip
Change the adminpassword, password, streamadminpassword_1, and streampassword_1 values to safe passwords. The adminpassword is used to access the web interface, the streampassword_1 is the password for access to the stream. Replace ServerIP with your server IP.
Make the Shoutcast binary executable:
chmod +x sc_serv
Finally, start the Shoutcast server:
./sc_serv &
You can now access the Shoutcast web interface from http://ServerIP:8000. The web interface will allow you to setup your streams and configure more server settings.
