How to use a per application publish.password file

[miguel]

Whould it be possible authentication by application instance?

[rrlanham]

I'm not sure, but you can try some things using ${com.wowza.wms.context.ApplicationInstance} and see what works

Richard

[alle1974]

Hi there, i don't know if this is a tips but anyway: if you have a problem to showing the popup of the encoder to insert the username and password, be also sure that after created the directory of the live that you have the same directory also in the "applications" directory

alle

[brunyalo]

Would have been optimal to start with the step to deploy MediaSecurity AddOn. It would have saved me a few minutes. Thanks.

[cmeyer]

Hi,

I'm running WowzaMediaServer 3.1.2 and broadcasting to it on rtmp with Wirecast 4.2. to an embedded jwplayer. It works great! Trouble is, I'm trying to enforce publish authentication and no matter what credentials I put it, it continues to work fine, i.e. publishing from Wirecast is not blocked. I followed the instructions on this page for unique password files for each application and have an authentication username and password in the appropriate Publish.Password file. Any ideas about where to start trouble shooting?

Regards, Chris Meyer

[rrlanham]

Chris,

You have to use the MediaSecurity Addon:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....RTMP-and-RTSP)

This feature just provides a per application password file.

Richard

[cmeyer]

Chris,

You have to use the MediaSecurity Addon:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....RTMP-and-RTSP)

This feature just provides a per application password file.

Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your help on this.

I've already installed MediaSecurity_2.0.zip by copying wms-plugin-security-encryption.jar and wms-plugin-security.jar into my /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/lib directory. Made permissions the same as all the other stuff.

I'm setting up a live RTMP streaming application named 'goodman' for John Goodman, our media guy. We want to require authentication for publishing from Wirecast, but we don't care about limiting or secure playback at this point. We are setting the password credentials to be per application.

As per the WowzaMediaServerMediaSecurity_UsersGuide.pdf:

I made install-dir/applications/goodman/ and install-dir/conf/goodman/

I copied the Application.xml to install-dir/conf/goodman/

Made sure the StreamType is live: <StreamType>live</StreamType>

Made the PublishMethod is digest: <RTP><Authentication><PublishMethod>digest</PublishMethod>

I placed the following in the <Modules> section at the bottom of Application.xml:

<Module>
<Name>ModuleRTMPAuthenticate</Name>
<Description>ModuleRTMPAuthenticate</Description>
<Class>com.wowza.wms.plugin.security.ModuleRTMPAut henticate</Class>
</Module>

I put a copy of publish.password into the install-dir/conf/goodman/ folder and put a valid usename password in it.

To support individual publish.password files, I made the following change in the install-dir/conf/Authentication.xml file for <Authentication><Methods><Method><name>basic</name> and <Method><name>digest</name>:

<Property>
<Name>passwordFile</Name>
<Value>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/publish.password</Value>
</Property>

Also added to the <Properties> section at the bottom of install-dir/conf/goodman/Application.xml:

<Property>
<Name>rtmpEncoderAuthenticateFile</Name>
<Value>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/publish.password</Value>
</Property>

And just for giggles, I restarted the WowzaMediaServer service.

I am using the BroadCast Setting->Set Credentials button of Wirecast to put in the username and password from the Wowza publish.password file in the goodman folder. No matter what Username/Password combination I put into Wirecast, it continues to publish live video to goodman on Wowza - even after saving and restarting the broadcast...

Can you tell what I am missing from this, or do you need to see some entire files?

Chris

[rrlanham]

Restart Wowza again, then start the encoder and publish. Then zip up and send /conf folder and the current access and error log files to support@wowza.com. Include a link to this thread for reference

Richard