virtual directory

[triadwm]

Our corporate website uses coldfusion. We have developed a web time entry
system that also uses coldfusion. I am trying to setup the new timentry system
as a virtual directory under our website. When I try to access the time system
I get a coldfusion error. Can someone please instruct or direct me to
documentation on how to do this.

[larkinheather]

Hello! I'm having a hard time getting the virtual directory to work.

Here's the setup:
On my FMS computer, I have flvs located in the folder: X:\flash
So, in the Macromedia/FMS/conf/_defaultroot_/defaultVHost_/vhost.xml, I made a
virtual directory like this:
<Streams>lrc;X:\flash</Streams>
And then, in my flash, I set the contentpath to be: rtmp://myUrl/lrc/flvname
I'm using FMS 2.0.3
But its not working. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Does there need
to be a main.asc somewhere in there?

Thank you very much!

-Heather Larkin

[funkysoul]

you shouldn't change the <streams> line instead you should do it on the <virtualdirectory> one

[larkinheather]

I'm not sure I follow. Can you type an example?

[funkysoul]

exactly how's it noted on the vhosts.xml

[larkinheather]

you mean, like this:
<Streams key="virtual key"><virtual directory>;actual directory></Streams>

But what if I don't want to use a key?

[Joe Wack]

I'm having pretty much the same problem. I'm mapping e:\Flash\ to the alias
"videos" (creative, I know)
so my <VirtualDirectory> tag in vhost.xml has this in it:
<Streams>videos;e:\Flash</Streams>

Now, in my cliet side program, I'm calling "rtmp://ipaddy/appname/videos" as
my content path, and then appending the flv names later.
Clearly the correct syntax eludes me. Should I not substitute the alias for
the instance name?
Could someone give me a full example of a new NetConnection line?

Thanks,

--Joe

[usuhamlet_2001]

This is what I found while trying to get the VirtualDirectory to work on FMS 2.
I had to leave the application directory in tact. I had no FLV files in it but
otherwise it was the same. I also found that if I left out the main.asc file
from the application root (ie. fms\applications\video\main.asc) then the videos
would not stream from the virtual directory. The main.asc file I am using is
actually the one from FCS 1.5 samples folder. Not sure if there is one for FMS
2.0. I have only tried this with recorded video and not live streams.

The rtmp address is rtmp://myserver/videos/virtualdirectory/video file name.
Hope this helps someone. If more detail is needed I will post more.

Robert

[Joe Wack]

Thanks for the reply! I believe I've figured out what I was doing wrong.

The virtual directory needs to be in the stream name itself, rather than the
initial connection. So the .connect parameter would be
"rtmp://ipaddy/appname/appinstance"
and the stream name, when I reference it would just be:
"videos/whatever.flv"

I've found it also helps to have the FLVPlayback main.asc in the app folder,
like usuhamlet says.

Thanks again,
Joe