Netstream init failed when running as a service on Mac

[flybriz]

My apologies if this is a stupid question, but I can't find the solution in the docs or forum. I have been building and testing a Flash recording app by starting Wowza using the Wowza Startup.app that gets put into the Applications folder on the Mac. Everything is fine that way, but now I want to run Wowza as a service. I used the sudo command from the documentation to start it as a service and it starts with no errors, but I'm getting an error in Flash when it tries to initialize the stream connection. Any ideas why?

[rrlanham]

Make sure it is really shutdown before you start the service. You might want to stop the service, and run /bin/shutdown.sh, then start the service again.

And check the logs to see that it really started up correctly, look for errors binding to 1935, which means another instance is running.

Richard

[charlie]

There is an error in the service file. Change the contents of the following file:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.wowza.WowzaMediaServer.plist

to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.wowza.WowzaMediaServer</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/Library/WowzaMediaServer/bin/WowzaMediaServerOSX</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>ServiceDescription</key>
        <string>Wowza Media Server</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/Library/WowzaMediaServer/logs/launchd.stderr</string>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/Library/WowzaMediaServer/logs/launchd.stdout</string>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>root</string>
        <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
        <string>/Library/WowzaMediaServer/bin/</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Charlie