Summary of FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2-INSTALLING FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2
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Installing flash media server 2.
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3 contents introducing flash media server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 overview of flash media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 about the flash media server documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 flash media...
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4 contents.
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5 introducing flash media server macromedia flash media server 2 is a development framework and a deployment environment for rich media applications. Developers can use macromedia flash and flash media server to write media applications, and then use flash media server to deploy the applications. Ma...
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6 introducing flash media server flash media server includes the following documentation: ■ this manual, installing flash media server, describes system requirements and explains how to install the server. ■ getting started with flash media server presents a short overview of flash media server and ...
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Typographical conventions 7 flash media server support you may want to explore these other sources of support for flash media server: ■ the flash media server support center at www.Macromedia.Com/go/ flashmediaserver_support_en provides technotes and up-to-date information about flash media server. ...
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8 introducing flash media server.
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9 1 chapter 1 installing flash media server installing macromedia flash media server 2 is a straightforward process. This chapter provides the systems requirements, the steps to install the server on windows or linux, and and a list of installed files. In addition to installing the server files on y...
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10 installing flash media server the following software and hardware are recommended for production computers: installing the server installing the server is easy. Be prepared to choose an administrator user name and password during the installation. You can use the management console to change the ...
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Installing the server 11 8. Accept the default location for the flash media server program shortcuts, or enter a new location to which the shortcuts should be installed. 9. Review your installation choices. Click back to make any necessary changes. 10. Click install. 11. The final installation step ...
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12 installing flash media server 10. Follow the installation instructions on your screen. ■ enter a user for flash media server processes to run as. The default is the “nobody” user. (the user you select is also the owner of the flash media server files.) your choices are written to the fms.Ini file...
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About the installed files 13 during development, you can keep client-side and server-side application files together, if you want to. When you deploy applications on a public server, you’ll need to separate client files from your server-side source files. If you’re using a web server, your swf and h...
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14 installing flash media server ■ as soon as the server is started, a logs directory containing all of the various types of logs is created in the root. ■ the fmscore.Exe file is the executable where flash media server applications run. The way the server is configured determines how many applicati...
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About the installed files 15 ■ the tcsrvmsg file is a component of the server. ■ the conf directory contains the server’s hierarchy of xml configuration files and the fms.Ini file. ■ the applications directory is the directory in which you create registered application directories for your media app...
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16 installing flash media server installing edge servers until this release of flash media server, clients always connected directly to the computer where the application was running. These applications were running locally, since their execution occurred on the same computer that the clients were c...