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How to use wowza behind NAT?

Hello everybody.

I have problems with video playback outside my local network.

I make a port forwarding to a wowza streaming engine page, set in jw player addres like: “rtmp://10.10.10.10:1935/myapp/name_of_stream.stream”

and jwplayer can’t find a video?

What should i do to make this work behind NAT?

Many thanks for any answers, Vetrinus.

Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

You will need to open ports (TCP 1935, UDP 6970-9999) and either forward port 1935 to the computer running Wowza, or map port 1935 to the server running Wowza on your network.

Regards,

Salvadore

Hi,

As mentioned you’ll need to forward incoming requests from routable addresses to your inside/lan 10.10.10.10 address. This is done in your router or firewall device and typically referred to as Port Forwarding, DMZ or 1-to-1 NAT. Depending on the device performing NAT, you may need to open port connections form your WAN interface or modify policies to allow this traffic flow.

Once configured properly, you should be able to playback from Wowza Streaming Engine using the IP Address on your WAN interface or other publicly routed IP assigned to your network and configured as part of your port forwarding setup. So instead of using the inside private 10.10.10.10 address for playback your URL will be rtmp://[Public IP]:1935/[Application]/[Stream Name].

Best regards,

Andrew