Relocate the default content and log folder

[cjasolutions]

Is it please possible to relocate the the default location for the Content and Log Folder of WMS. The content folder is getting big and I understand I need to move it to a partition with bigger space. Would moving this have any impact on the performance of WMS? and what is the best way of achieving this.

Thanks.

[rrlanham]

Just change Application.xml /StorageDir. Point to any location, including mounted or mapped drive on another server.

Richard

[cjasolutions]

Thanks for your prompt response Richard. I have thought about this but just remembered that on the WMS EC Servers that I use, the default location of the Storage is the home directory of a user named "wowza" I think. That is exactly what I would like to do. This will help so that I do not have to be changing location for every apps. Do you really recommend placing the log in Database? if not I also need to change the location of the Log files as well.

Thanks.

[rrlanham]

On a linux server you can move a folder then replace it with symlink with the same name pointing to the moved folder. You can do that with the /logs or /content folder, anything.

On Windows you can just install Wowza somewhere else. Or you can uncomment and change these lines in /conf/setenv.bat:

set WMSCONFIG_URL=
rem set WMSAPP_HOME=C:/wms2
rem set WMSCONFIG_HOME=C:/wms2

Be careful. Please backup changes and have a way to restore. It will be difficult for us to sort it out if nothing works.

And in /conf/log4j.properties you can change location of log output.

I don't "recommend" logging to a database. It's an option that you have. Some people use it so they can have real-time access to logs, and/or blend logs from 2 or more servers.

Richard

[cjasolutions]

Thanks Richard. I think I will stick to changing the Application.xml/StorageDir as you suggested earlier. It will look something like this on linux -
/home/wowzacontent/live
/home/wowzacontent/vod
/home/wowzacontent/anyappsname

Is this ok?

Thanks.

[rrlanham]

It will work if the locations exist.

Richard