Generating Configuration
A Gerbera instance requires a configuration file to launch.
Gerbera provides a command line flag --create-config
to generate a default config.xml
file. You will need to generate
the configuration file when running Gerbera for the first time. Gerbera reports the missing configuration upon startup
similar to the message below
The server configuration file could not be found in ~/.config/gerbera
Gerbera could not find a default configuration file.
Try specifying an alternative configuration file on the command line.
For a list of options run: gerbera -h
Run command to create configuration
$ gerbera --create-config
This command outputs the config.xml
to the standard output.
Run command to create configuration, storing in the
/etc/gerbera
directory.
$ gerbera --create-config | sudo tee /etc/gerbera/config.xml
You can start Gerbera with similar command as below:
$ gerbera -c /etc/gerbera/config.xml
NOTE
- You might need to create the directory gerbera inside the ~/.config/ folder and change the owner to gerbera
mkdir ~/.config/gerbera
sudo chown gerbera:gerbera gerbera
Gerbera sets the
<home>
to the runtime user’s home by default. Be sure to update accordingly.Ensure the gerbera user has proper permissions to the
config.xml
file.