View or disable the display of the Wowza Streaming Engine version number

To see the version of Wowza Streaming Engine™ media server software that's currently running on a computer, enter the following URL into a web browser:

http://[wowza-ip-address]:1935/ServerVersion

To disable this functionality, remove the server version HTTP provider from the server's virtual host configuration.

  1. Navigate to [install-dir]/conf/ and open VHost.xml in a text editor.
  2. Remove all occurrences of the following HTTP provider from the file:
     
<HTTPProvider>
    <BaseClass>com.wowza.wms.http.HTTPServerVersion</BaseClass>
    <RequestFilters>*ServerVersion</RequestFilters>
    <AuthenticationMethod>none</AuthenticationMethod>
</HTTPProvider>

  1. Save your changes.