Installation guide

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Feature available in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires
Flash Player 6 or later.
LikeRTMPE,SSLisaprotocolthatenablesmoresecurecommunication.UnlikeRTMPE,SSL
requiresacerticatesignedbyanintermediateCerticateAuthority,andrequiresconguration
toenable.SSLmustrstbeconguredintheServer.xml le; certicates can also be set up to
secure independent adaptors or independent virtual hosts.
FormoredetailsaboutsecuritysettingsforFlashMediaServer,refertothe“Securingcontent
with Flash Media Server 3” section.
Conguring general settings
ere are a number of helpful settings, that don’t necessarily directly aect security or perfor-
mance, but can streamline and customize your application deployment.
Allow application debugging connections
Feature available in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires
Flash Player 6 or later.
eFlashMediaAdministrationConsoleandtheAPIcanactuallyconnectand“listen”to
SharedObjectsandStreams.isfeaturemakesiteasiertodebugcomplexserver-sideapplica-
tions.Bydefault,theserverdoesnotallowdebuggingconnections.However,theFlashMedia
ServerAdministrationConsolemustmakethisspecialdebuggingconnectiontotheserverto
play back streams and access shared object data.
Toallowdebuggingconnections,edittheApplication.x ml le of the virtual host or
application you’d like to access. You will edit the node shown below to enable debug connections.
Aer setting, you will need to restart both the Flash Media Server and Flash Media Server
AdministrationserviceandreloadtheAdministrationConsole.
<Debug>
<MaxPendingDebugConnections>50</MaxPendingDebugConnections>
<AllowDebugDefault>true</AllowDebugDefault>
</Debug>
Alternatively,youcanuseHTTPtomonitortheserveractivity.
Dene application object properties
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
With Flash Media Server 3, you can dene global properties that are accessible to all application
instances on a specic virtual host. Alternatively, if you dene these application properties in an
Application.x ml folder in a particular application folder, the properties are only available
for that application.
For example, you could create a global application_owner property, and every instance of
that application could access that property using this syntax:
Application.cong.application_owner
Enable/disable native bandwidth detection
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
Flash Media Server 3 can detect a client’s bandwidth using native bandwidth detection,
orinserver-sideActionScript(calledscript-basedbandwidthdetection).Becausenative
bandwidth detection is built into the core server code, it is much faster than script-based
detection.Nativebandwidthdetectionisenabledbydefault,andcanbefurthercongured
in the Application.xml le.
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