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SteveGuluk
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February 20, 2009
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Can FMS coexist with an IIS web server?

  • February 20, 2009
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Hello,
I searched the posts and do not see anyone else with the problem of sharing port 80 with basic web site services. Maybe no one is trying to run FMS and IIS at the same time?

I installed 3.5 accepting the defaults and not installing Apache since I serve up web sites on my Windows 2003 server using IIS.

After installing FMS I was able to open the administration area and view the video samples locally so it looked like a successful install. But on further review, none of my websites were being served up.

I expect there is a conflict with port 80 and IIS wanting it as well as FMS server wanting the same port.

Is it possible to have a server continue to use IIS to serve up web pages and also have FMS on the same server, serve up streaming Flash?

At this point I am just using the Developmental version (no license purchased yet) of 3.5 to put up examples of what improvements can be had with the FMS. Then after getting clients interested and ready to help offset the price, move to releasing a licensed instance. But if it needs it's own server, that is not in the budget at this time.

So is it possible to run both on the same server (IIS web server and FMS)?

Thanks in advance to anyone that has dealt with this condition and can provide further clarification.
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    Yes, FMS and IIS can coexist on a single server.

    1. You need two IP addresses... one for FMS and one for IIS

    2. You need to bind FMS to one of the IP addresses in fms.ini. FMS binds to all IP's by default.

    3. You need to bind your IIS vhosts to the other IP address (IIS binds to all IP's by default)

    4. If you are using IIS version 6, you need to use httpcfg.exe to disable socket pooling on IIS (search the microsoft KB... there's an article about it in there somewhere). If you don't, your IIS vhosts will ignore the settings in the IIS manager, and continue binding to all IP's.

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    Anonymous
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    February 20, 2009
    Yes, FMS and IIS can coexist on a single server.

    1. You need two IP addresses... one for FMS and one for IIS

    2. You need to bind FMS to one of the IP addresses in fms.ini. FMS binds to all IP's by default.

    3. You need to bind your IIS vhosts to the other IP address (IIS binds to all IP's by default)

    4. If you are using IIS version 6, you need to use httpcfg.exe to disable socket pooling on IIS (search the microsoft KB... there's an article about it in there somewhere). If you don't, your IIS vhosts will ignore the settings in the IIS manager, and continue binding to all IP's.
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    SteveGulukAuthor
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    February 20, 2009
    Jay,
    Thank you!

    I do have IIS 7 so it looks like it should be fairly straightforward.

    CBSPhillyIT
    CBSPhillyIT
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    May 29, 2013

    Hello,

    I know it's been a long time since this post, but I'm trying to also have IIS 7 and AMS 5 on the same server.  Did you have any luck doing this using 2 IP addresses?  Thanks!

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