FMS-3 IIS/DNS Setup

[A.P.]

Hi

I have installed FMS-3 on my Windows 2003 server running IIS6.
I am able to reslove to the sample material using localhost
I have a subdomain, lets say fms.companyname.com.
how do I set this up to resolve to the fms server instead of localhost? so
that I can test from outside the local environment

I'm not clear where I configure this and I cant find any documention that
covers this topic, please forgive me if this has been covered before...

[stoem]

I don't really want to talk you through the whole process of adding a new vhost but why could you not hit the machine with FMS by IP instead?

[A.P.]

Security policy set by IT blocks acces to our web server via IP otherwise I would be happy to... Is there a relevant article you can direct me to, I assume vHost is the clue...

[Tim Fitz]

Were you able to find more info this? I am in a similar situation and I cannot
connect to a stream outside of my local network. I have tried setting up a
vHost, but I must be missing somethingin the configuration.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Tim

[stoem]

hi guys,
it makes no sense setting up a vhost if you have connection problems. The
connection to the default vhost is the easiest one and it can be done based on
the IP of your FMS server - as long as you have not configured it to listen on
another IP.
Tim, you are trying to what exactly? Connect to a remote FMS server? Is there
a firewall in between?

With more info I may be able to help but these things usually take ages to
resolve on a forum, but hands on would take 10 mins :-)

Cheers

Stefan

[Tim Fitz]

I installed FMS 3 (dev) on a Win 2K3 server with IIS 6. I've got a website
running on this server, e.g. [url]www.mydomain.com[/url]. I have setup a simple test web
page with embedded swf that allows you to type a path of a stream and it will
play it. So I...

1. Go to my test web page ([url]http://www.mydomain.com/test/index.html[/url])
2. Enter the stream path rtmp://localhost/vod/sample or
rtmp://[local_ip_address]/vod/sample
When referencing locally, everything works great.

But if I try to enter stream path as:
rtmp://www.mydomain.com/vod/sample I get nothing.

I thought setting an alias in the vhost.xml file to [url]www.mydomain.com[/url] would
work, but it didn't.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I'm having trouble figuring it out.

Thanks for any help!

[stoem]

you would need a vhost in this case. But why bother? If you can access the
server via IP then you're up and running. Messing with vhosts just complicates
things. If you have a real need then check the docs for more info.

Cheers

Stefan

[Tim Fitz]

That's just it... I cannot connect via IP when viewing the page outside of my local network (over the internet). I have tried to following the documentation but still unable to get it to work.

[techeye]

Firstly, name resolution can be tested by using ping and looking at the IP
address that the name is resolved. To override the name resolution one can
modify their etc/hosts file (among many other possibilities).
Are you able to telnet to the port that FMS is listening on? telnet
[url]www.mydomain.com[/url] 1935 ? If not, something is blocking your access. If you can
indeed connect, check the logs to see if anything is suspect.

[Tim Fitz]

Thank you techeye! I knew it had to be something simple and your suggestion made me realize I needed to open port 1935.

[firstsource]

Hi Tim/Techeye

I'm facing the same issue. i have set the rtmp path as
rtmp://<ip>/vod/legend. I'm able to browse from localhost without any issues.
But from client, it only loads the streaming bar. i'm able to telnet on port
1935,1111,80 to FMS. Not sure what i'm missing here. Please help