FCS 1.5 Installation Woes

[John.S]

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\s treams
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

[John.S]

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

thx
J

[Scrawl]

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

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
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom/downloads_updaters.html[/url] .

Hope this helps.

-Scrawl




"John.S" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d1d6tn$d56$1@forums.macromedia.com...

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

[Brian Hogue]

Scrawl -

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

-brian


"Scrawl" <scrawl78@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d1dhsr$r18$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> I suggest running through the 'Creating your first broadcast with

Macromedia

> Flash Communication Server MX' available at
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashcom/articles/broadcast.html[/url]
>
> 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
> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom/downloads_updaters.html[/url] .
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Scrawl
>
>
>
>
> "John.S" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
> news:d1d6tn$d56$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> > Also, the admin console doesn't show the "myapp" app, and I was

expecting

> > it to...
> >
> > thx
> > J

>
>

[Scrawl]

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

Cheers,

Scrawl

"Brian Hogue" <bhogueNOSPAM@cyburban.com> wrote in message
news:d1epbg$oup$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Scrawl -
>
> Does Updater 2 include Updater 1 ... or do I need to apply both? Thanks in
> advance
>
> -brian
>
>
> "Scrawl" <scrawl78@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d1dhsr$r18$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>> I suggest running through the 'Creating your first broadcast with

> Macromedia

>> Flash Communication Server MX' available at
>> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashcom/articles/broadcast.html[/url]
>>
>> 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
>> [url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom/downloads_updaters.html[/url] .
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> -Scrawl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "John.S" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
>> news:d1d6tn$d56$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>> > Also, the admin console doesn't show the "myapp" app, and I was

> expecting

>> > it to...
>> >
>> > thx
>> > J

>>
>>

>
>