• How to build Wowza Media Server for Amazon EC2

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    This article describes how to build a Wowza Media Server® DevPay Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2™) and a server from a Fedora Core base AMI.

    Note: For Wowza Media Server 3.5.0. or later.

    To build an Amazon EC2 DevPay AMI:

    1. Start a base Amazon machine.

    2. Install the latest version of the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) from the Oracle website.

    3. Download the latest version of Wowza Media Server from the Wowza Media Store and install the software.

    4. Tune the server following the instructions in the Performance Tuning Guide.

    5. In a text editor, open the /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/conf/Server.license file and replace the existing developer license with the following Wowza Media Server 3 for Amazon EC2 license:
      Code:
      -----BEGIN LICENSE-----
SVRC3-xG3Wv-HmYVf-tyR6u-xkv9b-UBrQT
+GXGIHQZV2BSKBNVLPDTM6XUF0LGLX0DSXB94QRP0T370M9D2V15H35GR9IUG4QCW
4B4TGFW279I5AYOMW29FFXI0Y7HWLIK3FKWTFJEJQD0Q1PEKFD79TZWNXQC5T4A8Z
F2TN7P70WK8MWX84NK257TPLGXL07CQ8B6NYN2WVIQLX651GR257XXHA4CL1ILT6W
5PVFNO1KIEA5EN8IC2FO9M44XC9VQIPGYD1S1E4GXRLLEQO
-----END LICENSE-----
    6. Save the Wowza Media Server configuration as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and register it using the ec2-register command.

    7. Use the following command to attach our DevPay ID to the AMI:
      Code:
      ec2-modify-image-attribute [AMI-ID] --product-code 8ED157F9
      where [AMI-ID] is the ID of the new Amazon AMI that's returned by the ec2-register command.

    Note: If you're re-building an AMI from our pre-built DevPay AMIs, you must adjust the directory structure for the AMI to function properly. Execute the following commands to create the correct local content and logs folders:
    Code:
    rm -rf /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/content
mkdir /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/content
chown -R wowza:wowza /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/content
chmod -R 775 /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/content

rm -rf /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/logs
mkdir /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/logs
chown -R wowza:wowza /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/logs
chmod -R 775 /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/logs

    To build Wowza Media Server from a Fedora AMI:

    1. Start a Fedora Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

      Linux® Fedora™ Core for Amazon EC2 images are available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud...SIG/EC2_Images.

      Amazon provides the following Fedora Core 8 public images:

      • ec2-run-instances ami-48aa4921 -t m1.small -k wowza-keypair
      • ec2-run-instances ami-f61dfd9f -t m1.large -k wowza-keypair

    2. Install the latest version of the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) from the Oracle website.

    3. Download the latest version of Wowza Media Server from the Wowza Media Store and install the software.

    4. Tune the server following the instructions in the Performance Tuning Guide.

    5. In a text editor, open the /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/conf/Server.license file and replace the existing developer license with your Subscription (Daily or Monthly) license.

    Note: If you want to re-stream Amazon S3 content using Wowza Media Server, you can configure the MediaCache AddOn package to do so.


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