Adding RTMPT streaming as an option on port 80

[Alan_Halls]

We have an existing installation that some people behind corporate firewalls are unable to use on port 1935. We enjoy using RTMP because it blocks some of the mainstream free video rippers and hope that we will enjoy the same benefit on RTMPT.

I was looking around in the VHost.xml and the Application.xml and searching the forums, but didn’t see a quick and dirty guide to enable RTMPT on port 80 or 443. The server has an existing Apache installation on port 80 but it is my understanding that isn’t going to be a problem, if so we can go to 443. We don’t have any special add-ons or anything to complicate matters, if someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. I tried streaming without any configuration changes just in case it was enabled by default but doesn’t seem to be.

[Richard_Lanham]

Follow this guide for adding a port:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-install-and-configure-wowza-streaming-engine#addtionalPorts

Be sure to check startup lines in log after restarting to confirm Wowza was able to bind to that port.

443 is a good port to use if it is not being used by the web server, maybe slightly better than 80.

It is best to avoid tunneling, only use if necessary. See this guide to protocol rollover:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-protocol-rollover-with-actionscript)

Always use port in NetConnection, even if it is default for that protocol. Doing that disables an protocol rollover feature of Flash plugin that you want to avoid because it is slow and you don’t know what or even that it is happening.

Richard

[Alan_Halls]

Thank you Richard, I was able to change the port setting of the SSL to 8500 in the file /etc/httpd.d/ssl.conf and after restarting was able to verify that port 443 was being bound by the Wowza server. I also removed mention of port 80 in the conf file since 2 of the 3 servers are hosting a website on port 80. I have a student working now to see if they can access it while at school. We are operating on a tight budget and so we can just allow students to select the stream type they need and have it saved to their profile rather than having the rollover method till I can figure it out myself.