We have several Wowza Streaming Engine servers that are streaming content. When I add a new application instance, I usually just store it in ${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content/{Application Name}. I was under the impession that the folder would be autogenerated by the webGUI when specified but I am now getting errors that the directory cannot be found after creating a new application instance.
I can easily have our support group add the folders but I was under the impression that Wowza Streaming Engine would create the folder for me.
Just want to do a sanity check to make sure how it is suppose to function.
Wowza Streaming Engine does not create content folders or source locations. As such you will need to add those sources by hand and then create your application.
You might be interested in our REST API which can create applications to your specifications. We have an article that covers this below. You should be able to create a script that adds the content folder you want and then uses our REST API to create the application to go with it.