Installation guide

Typically,implicitURIistherecommendedsettingbecauseitisthemostsecureandrequiresthe

leastamountofcommunication.ItcanhidetheOriginserverURIanditistheeasiesttosetup.

erefore,wewillexploretheimplicitURIconguration.Allofthesemethodsaredescribedin

the Using Flash Media Server Edge Servers manual.

Conguring proxy (Edge) servers using implicit URI

Intypicallarge-scaledeployments,yourbusinesscoulddeploytheimplicitURImethod.

efollowingsettingsdenethevirtualhostasaproxy(Edge)server.

<Proxy>

<Mode>remote</Mode>

<Anonymous>false</Anonymous>

<CacheDir enabled=”true” useAppName=”true”>d:\fmsCache\</

CacheDir>

</RouteTable>

</Proxy>

iscongurationwillallowtheclienttoconnectwiththeEdgeServerwithoutexposingthe

proxy server.

e connection string would look like:

rtmp://edge1.fms.com/ondemand/

eFlashPlayerwouldconnecttotheEdgeserverandnotexposetheOriginServerat

192.168.110.50,asshowninthefollowinggure.

Edge server using a single Origin server

YoucancongureEdgeserverstocreateproxyclusters.Inthefollowinggure,noticehowan

Edgeserver(e1)canproxytheEdgeserver(e0)initsrouteEntrytag.eEdgeserver(e0)would

proxy the Flash Media Server origin. is type of conguration will allow you build Flash Media

ServerEdgeclustersthatcouldbegeographicallybalanced.

e RouteEntryfortheclustermemberswouldpointtoamainEdgeserver.

</RouteTable>