User guide

Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services

Last updated 8/28/2014

For more information about logging, see Monitoring and Managing Log Filesin the Adobe Media Server Configuration

and Administration Guide.

Configuration files

The server configuration files are located in the following directory:

/opt/adobe/ams/conf

You can edit configuration files just as you would on any edition of Adobe Media Server. See Working with

configuration files.

Note: When you terminate an instance, all content on the instance is permanently deleted. Before you terminate an

instance, copy any content you’ve added or modified, including configuration files, off the instance.

The following are the differences between the standard Adobe Media Server Extended configuration files and the

Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services configuration files:

• Adaptor.xml

Adaptor/RTMFP/Core/HostPortList/HostPort has a public attribute to allow UDP traffic through Amazon’s

firewall:

• ams.ini

The Administration Server is not configured or started by default. (See Adobe Media Server Administration

Console .) To connect to the Administration Server, configure a port:

SERVER.ADMINSERVER_HOSTPORT = :1111

On an instance, the /mnt directory is much larger than the /opt directory. Therefore, content is configured to live in

subdirectories of /mnt:

LIVE_DIR = /mnt/applications/live VOD_COMMON_DIR = /mnt/webroot/vod VOD_DIR =

/mnt/applications/vod/media VHOST.APPSDIR = /mnt/applications LOGGER.LOGDIR = /mnt/logs

For information about configuring the server for optimum performance for your streaming use case, see Configuring

performance features in the Adobe Media Server Configuration and Administration Guide.

Apache HTTP Server configuration

The Apache HTTP Server configuration on Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services is the same as it is on other

editions of Adobe Media Server. Adobe Media Server listens on port 80 and proxies unknown HTTP requests to port

8134. Apache listens on port 8134.

The Apache root directory is /opt/adobe/ams/Apache2.2/.

The Apache webroot directory is /mnt/webroot/.

For more information, see Configuring Apache HTTP Server.

Managing content