Setup guide: Jellyfin setup

Jellyfin module WHMCS 

 Order now | Download | FAQ

1. Install Jellyfin on your server

To simplify deployment and help automate this for as many users as possible, we provide a BASH script to handle repo installation as well as installing Jellyfin. All you need to do is run this command on your system

 wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh | sudo bash

 

2. SSL certificate generation:

sudo apt install nginx certbot python3-certbot-nginx

sudo certbot --nginx --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --staple-ocsp --email YOUR_EMAIL -d DOMAIN_NAME

echo "0 0 * * *  root  certbot renew --quiet --no-self-upgrade --post-hook 'systemctl reload nginx'" | sudo tee -a /etc/cron.d/renew_certbot

 

3. Configure nginx from a subdomain

Create a file named jellyfin.conf.

cd /etc/nginx/conf.d/
nano jellyfin.conf

Then, insert the following text, replacing DOMAIN_NAME with your domain.

# Uncomment the commented sections after you have acquired a SSL Certificate
server {
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
	server_name DOMAIN_NAME;

	# Uncomment to redirect HTTP to HTTPS
	return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
	listen 443 ssl http2;
	listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
	server_name DOMAIN_NAME;

	## The default `client_max_body_size` is 1M, this might not be enough for some posters, etc.
	client_max_body_size 20M;

	# use a variable to store the upstream proxy
	# in this example we are using a hostname which is resolved via DNS
	# (if you aren't using DNS remove the resolver line and change the variable to point to an IP address e.g `set $jellyfin 127.0.0.1`)
	set $jellyfin 127.0.0.1;
	resolver 127.0.0.1 valid=30;

	ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/DOMAIN_NAME/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/DOMAIN_NAME/privkey.pem;
	include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
	ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;
	add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always;
	ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/DOMAIN_NAME/chain.pem;
	ssl_stapling on;
	ssl_stapling_verify on;

	# Security / XSS Mitigation Headers
	# NOTE: X-Frame-Options may cause issues with the webOS app
	add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
	add_header X-XSS-Protection "0"; # Do NOT enable. This is obsolete/dangerous
	add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

	# COOP/COEP. Disable if you use external plugins/images/assets
	add_header Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy "same-origin" always;
	add_header Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy "require-corp" always;
	add_header Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy "same-origin" always;

	# Permissions policy. May cause issues on some clients
	add_header Permissions-Policy "accelerometer=(), ambient-light-sensor=(), battery=(), bluetooth=(), camera=(), clipboard-read=(), display-capture=(), document-domain=(), encrypted-media=(), gamepad=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), hid=(), idle-detection=(), interest-cohort=(), keyboard-map=(), local-fonts=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), payment=(), publickey-credentials-get=(), serial=(), sync-xhr=(), usb=(), xr-spatial-tracking=()" always;

	# Tell browsers to use per-origin process isolation
	add_header Origin-Agent-Cluster "?1" always;


	# Content Security Policy
	# See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
	# Enforces https content and restricts JS/CSS to origin
	# External Javascript (such as cast_sender.js for Chromecast) must be whitelisted.
	# NOTE: The default CSP headers may cause issues with the webOS app
	#add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src https: data: blob: http://image.tmdb.org; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.gstatic.com https://www.youtube.com blob:; worker-src 'self' blob:; connect-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; frame-ancestors 'self'";

	location = / {
		return 302 http://$host/web/;
		#return 302 https://$host/web/;
	}

	location / {
		# Proxy main Jellyfin traffic
		proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096;
		proxy_set_header Host $host;
		proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;

		# Disable buffering when the nginx proxy gets very resource heavy upon streaming
		proxy_buffering off;
	}

	# location block for /web - This is purely for aesthetics so /web/#!/ works instead of having to go to /web/index.html/#!/
	location = /web/ {
		# Proxy main Jellyfin traffic
		proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096/web/index.html;
		proxy_set_header Host $host;
		proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
	}

	location /socket {
		# Proxy Jellyfin Websockets traffic
		proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096;
		proxy_http_version 1.1;
		proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
		proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
		proxy_set_header Host $host;
		proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
		proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
	}
}

Restarting nginx

sudo service nginx restart