Application created in Enginemanager cannot be found with sftp client!

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi,

I just created a new application by the engine manager, when I test the player (in the manager) I can see the video.

But If I try accessing the application folder with a sftp client, the applications folder is empty (/usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/).

So I was wondering where I can put my own videos?

Have a nice week,

David.

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Hello,

When creating an application, you have the option to specify the application’s content folder.

The default content folder is [wowza-install-dir]/content/.

It is described in step 3.c from the How to set up video on demand streaming tutorial article.

Zoran

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Hi David,

Wowza runs as the root user so will create or modify any folders or files as that user. If you are logging in as a different user then that user may not have permissions to access the folders.

I would suggest the following, as root user.

ssh in and cd to the /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine folder.

run the following as root user.

find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

This will set the permissions on the directories so at least you can view & download the files.

You can also fun the following command in the main Wowza install dir to change the owner on everything.

chown -R <your-username>:<your-group-name> *

New files will still be created as the root user but existing files will be owned and modified by you.

Roger.

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Hello Zoran,

Thank you for your answer!

I listed the content of /content/ folder using the command find … and I could see the sample.mp4

but If I try to access it using FileZilla, for example, I have “Empty directory listing”

I used the command ls -a /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine-4.0.1 and it clearly shows that "applications, content, legal, transcoder, conf,…"folders have their content hidden.

Any glue on this ?

David.

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Thank you Roger, it works as a charm!

Have a nice day,

David.