Streaming to Instagram with NGINX Server

1. The Instagram owner opens the Live video page and provides the Stream key.

   

2. Open the NGINX server link and enter your credentials.

   

3. Go to the Settings page and open the Set Outputs section.

   

4. Fill in the form and click Set Output.

   • The Name should not contain any spaces or special characters.

   • Select the correct language for the Stream Id.

   • Out Id can be anything, you can choose Out 1.

   • Resolution should be Vertical.

   • Server URL should be Instagram.

   • In the Stream Key field, you can enter the Instagram stream Key from step 1.

5. If you want to configure more languages, you can change the Name, Stream Id, Stream Key and click Set Output again.

6. If you want to update the Stream Key you can just fill out the form again and it will be overwritten.

7. Go to the control page and locate your languague tile. You will see the output you just configured.

   

8. Now you can click the on button. First the status will turn red and then green. Once it is green, it means that the live feed is coming to the Instagram. The Instagram owner will also see that the feed is coming and will be able to go live.

   

9. Once live is over, you can click the off button to stop sending the feed.

Troubleshooting

• If the Instagram owner closes the page, the Stream Key becomes invalid. So he needs to reopen the page and share the new Stream Key.

• If you click on and start sending feed and then stop the stream key will expire after few minutes. So click on only few minutes before the live and off after the live is done.

• After you click the on button the status should turn green after 30s max. If it is red for a long time, it means there is some issue with the Stream Key. You can ask the Instagram owner to share the Stream Key agin and update it in the settings. If it doesn’t help Instagram owner can refresh the page and share a new Stream Key.