macromedia flash flashcom: Hi there, I?m having a few installation problems I?m hoping someone can help me
with. I?m new to FCS and I?m a sysadmin. The developers need the FCS to serve
a flv file only. I have a web server hosting the swfs & fla?s on a separate
iis box and I?ve built a W2K3 Server with FCS. I don?t know ActionScript or
Flash in the context of building the files. I?ve read the fcs installation &
managing server docs.

The flv file call is failing.

Flash Communication Server Installation
This is a dev environment, inside a firewall, no security considerations
needed at this testing stage. All calls to this server are also within the
firewall.
OS: Windows 2003
Installed Developer Version of FCS, all defaults, changed install path to D:
partition.
Applied Updates R1 & R2

XML File Configurations:

conf\Server.xml:

1. Updated Allow Tag: <Allow>all</Allow>
2. I?ve not changed the Virtual host Name parameter (<VirtualHost
name="_defaultVHost_"> ) and I?ve also not given this to the developer to
specify in his Netconnection.connect statement (perhaps this is where I?m going
wrong?) I don?t know how the app connects, therein may be the problem

conf\_defaultRoot_\Adaptor.xml

1. Updated HostPort tag to include ip add of server
<HostPort>x.x.x.x:1935</HostPort> (x.x.x.x = ip add)
2. Allow tag updated: <Allow>all</Allow>

\conf\_defaultRoot_\Vhost.xml

1. Appsdir tag updated: <AppsDir>D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash
Communication Server MX\applications</AppsDir> //. I have an ?admin? dir
located in this path.
2. Streams tag updated: <Streams>try;D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash
Communication Server MX\applications\myapp\streams</Streams> //try is the name
of the flv file
3. DNS Suffix tag updated: <DNSSuffix>dev.flashcom.x.com</DNSSuffix> //I?ve
created a CNAME dns entry and pointed it to the server hosting the FCS
4. Default Allow Tag kept: <Allow>all</Allow>

\conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\Application.xml

1. <LoadOnStartup>true</LoadOnStartup>
2. <RecordAppLog>true</RecordAppLog>
3. <StorageDir>D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\applications\myapp\streams</StorageDir>

[Registering app] I have created dir?s (I know these aren?t all necessary, it
was a case of trying something, restarting service and trying something else)

1. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\myapp // and save try.flv file here
2. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\myapp\streams // and save try.flv file here
3. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\myapp\admin\streams
4. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\applications\myapp // and save try.flv file here
5. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\applications\myapp\streams // and save try.flv file here
6. D:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server
MX\applications\admin\streams

Problems

I need to confirm how the developer is calling the flv file, I think it?s from
a fla, anyhow, this is the info I?ve given him, but it?s failing.

videoURL="rtmp://dev.flashcom.x.com/" FLV="try.flv"

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks J

Also, the admin console doesn't show the "myapp" app, and I was expecting it to...

thx

Scrawl -

Does Updater 2 include Updater 1 ... or do I need to apply both? Thanks in
advance

-brian


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I suggest running through the 'Creating your first broadcast with Macromedia
Flash Communication Server MX' available at
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashcom/articles/broadcast.html

It was the very first tutorial I went through with FCS and really helps you
in understanding the file structure FCS requires.

I would also suggest reinstalling FCS from scratch and run this tutorial
locally. FCS requires pretty much no configuration for a localhost
connection.

All you really need to do is copy the FLV file to the right location on the
server. The client files (HTML+SWF) can be run from the desktop and should
(with luck) work.

One more thing - download and install Updater 2 from
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom/downloads_updaters.html .

Hope this helps.

-Scrawl




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You only need to install Updater 2 - that'll bring you up to the latest
version of FCS.

Cheers,

Scrawl

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