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calmchessplayer
calmchessplayer
Inspiring
September 25, 2011
Question

Adobe FMS 4.5 install instructions missing

  • September 25, 2011
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Dear Adobe. I attempted to Install FMS 4.5 with all its modules by installing apache seperately from the FMS installer on Linux However the installation notes do not specify how or where to get the information on how to install all the FMS 4.5 functionality such as HLS to Apple/IOS. But this is the part that messes me up if I install YOUR version of apache  then it is supported. Now correct me if I'm wrong because this was the case the last time I tried to install your version of apache. Last time I installed your bundled version of apache and then attempted to install PHP for apache with the modules GD,php_mysql and it didn't work. I attempted to make it work for days. So please tell me how do I install PHP,PHP_GD and PHP_MySql on your bundled version of apache? Also How do I install FMS 4.5 including HLS for Apache on  Linux/Windows that is not bundled or for Microsoft IIS ? Maybe you will answer this maybe you won't in the past I've usually been on my own at this point. Luckily I will post the answer on this forum if I ever figure it out on my own. I doubt you will give me phone/technical support since I use the FMS developer edtion.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                --calmchessplayer

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calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
October 19, 2011

I finally bought an iPodTouch yesterday which is a good solution  for me since its screen size is the same as the iPhone3,IPhone4S, and of course the touch. 1 test device for 3 Apple/IOS devices. 3 in 1 feels pretty good because legacy Apple devices aren't cheap. I will be testing my FMS 4.5 installation sometime today I have some other work to attend to first though . Stay Tuned.

calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
October 20, 2011

For anybody following this. Further updates are on hold again. I've aquired a client .......more device money!

calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
September 27, 2011

@Nikhil Pavan Kalyan You are the only one that has ever been on my side and actually resolved my issues. Can you help again? This is important I'm not trying to satisfy not my own curiosity but my customers instead. They pay my bills you know. FMS is my core buisiness. I need help.

calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
September 27, 2011

I have obtained the  files necessary to install FMS 4.5 on centOS5.5 without installing the bundled Apache server I will document my progress at each step here(I'm going to do this in notepad anyway so why not here. I don't know how you will aquire these files from anybody but adobe. I don't have permission to distibute them ask for them here and you will probably get them.

However centOS5.5 is now depricated and difficult to install from the ftp sever I use so I chose to find an alternate version and am using centOS 5.7 x86_64. Hopefully this works well.

step 1: I unzipped the files and transfered them into /etc/httpd/modules.

step 2: I checked the owner with ls -l  and octal permission representations with the following perl script

for 1 or 2 of the other files in the directroy.I hope 1-2 is enough to check usually is (perl is almost always installed by default on Linux)

#! /bin/sh

FILE=/etc/httpd/modules/libphp5.so

MODE=`perl -e 'printf "%04o", (stat("@ARGV"))[2] & 07777;' $FILE`

echo $MODE

step 3: I chmod 0755 for all the files I added to the directory and chown root:root  for all the files they were already owned by root but I don't like spending hours debugging only to find that I have the wrong owner.

step4: I check all files with ls -l to make sure the persmissions and owners match exactly.

stay tuned for my next post. Maybe I will succeed maybe I won't. Time will tell

calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
September 27, 2011

Well I loaded the necessary modules into /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as directed by this link

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashmediaserver/configadmin/WSd391de4d9c7bd6093a7e2f8312a374a1bde-8000.html

But when I restarted apache with sudo service httpd stop and sudo service httpd start i received this error

Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 994 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_f4fhttp.so into server: libadbe_dme.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

Disaster right ?

Not quite. I am a persitstant type of fellow and tried to  start apache again and centOS popped a GUI bubble telling me the SELINUX has denied persmission for the modules to load. Oh Yeah I forgot about that Thanks linux devloper guys for the bubble. this is good news because I can either turn SELINUX off which i usually do in development environment. Or I can modify some configuration files. I'm going with the first choice just to see if I can get this thing to fire.

Stay Tuned

N
Adobe Employee
NpComplete
Adobe Employee
September 26, 2011

You can very well use your external Apache..

All you need to

1. extract out required modules and dll's from the FMS installation/<Apache>/<modules> folder and place in your external Apache/modules folder.

2. Pick required configurations from httpd.conf from FMS installation/<Apache>/conf/httpd.conf and place in your external Apache/ conf/httpd.conf file.

    For this look out for following configs..

    1.

LoadModule f4fhttp_module modules/mod_f4fhttp.so

LoadModule hlshttp_module modules/mod_hlshttp.so

LoadModule jithttp_module modules/mod_jithttp.so

And configs under location tag hls-live, hds-live hls-vod, hds-vod

S
Adobe Employee
SE_0208
Adobe Employee
September 26, 2011

Also would like to add some infromation to what Nitin had said. I just wanted to let you know that Apache version which comes with FMS installation in 2.2.17 and  .dll/.so of relevant modules are best suited to work for that Apache version - needless to say all testing was done on same Apache version. So it would be best advised that your external Apache matches 2.2.17

calmchessplayer
calmchessplayerAuthor
Inspiring
September 26, 2011

So I have to install the bundled version of Apache to get the apache modules ?  If thats so that means in order to do a clean install I have to install FMS 4.5  choose to install the bundled verstion of Apache. Extract the needed  Apache modules and httpd.conf configuration parameters then uninstall FMS 4.5 and bundled Apache  clean up any left over files and configuration junk reinstall FMS 4.5 and configure a untested native(so to speak )version  Apache(untested isn't new ) seems like alot of unecessary work when the files and configuration parameters for FMS/Apache could be provided by Adobe and documented.(maybe it is I just don't know it. BTW I will install the recommended apache version but Apache is often patched for security holes and its version often changes so I doubt installing a specific version Af apache won't be supported bye using apt-get or yum pretty big disappointment as often installation and configuration dependencies are difficult to meet with linux if you make and install Apache and all its modules such as PHP as I have listed in this origional post. Such is the way with Linux and some of the hassles can be overcome by using multiple VM luckily I have a quadcore and 6 gigs of ram(bragging rights? ).

Thanks for you time. Pleas also answer the next question.

And What about  the PHP problems that I have exsperienced on the bundled version of apache on FMS are they none exsitant in FMS 4.5?

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