# change Storage directory for streams
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [March 17, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510 "2010-03-17T08:15:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Mayur\_Bais](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mayur_Bais)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 6:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/21 "2010-03-18T06:55:00Z")
Yes I think there is a problem with slashes? how to solve that.
There must be a way to do this… without making subfolders per client.
How do you guys do integration with s3.
this is very important for us
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### Author:  [@Mayur\_Bais](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mayur_Bais)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/22 "2010-03-18T07:08:56Z")
it gives me this error :
ERROR server comment - MediaReaderFactory: getInstance: Missing definition for c
and runs in an infinite loop
I did this in play method :
params.set(PARAM1, new AMFDataItem(“C:\mnt\sdt-platfs1\images\forums2\FR\0\0\videos\videos\_8dcd5c3c-9dea-43d3-b8e8-2145ee0c37e0.flv”));
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### Author:  [@Mayur\_Bais](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mayur_Bais)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/23 "2010-03-18T07:30:52Z")
1. comment storageDir tag in application.xml
1. onAppConnect do this :
```auto
public void onConnect(IClient client, RequestFunction function,
AMFDataList params) {
getLogger().info("onConnect: " + client.getClientId());
client.getAppInstance().setStreamStorageDir("C:\\mnt\\sdt-platfs1\\images\\forums2\\");
getLogger().info("onConnect: " + client.getClientId());
}
```
1. and call one function from flex client to set user folder path like this :
```auto
public void setPathValue(IClient client, RequestFunction function, AMFDataList params){
if (getParam(params, PARAM1).getType() == AMFData.DATA_TYPE_STRING)
FlvOperator.Path = params.getString(PARAM1);
System.out.println("path :: " + FlvOperator.Path);
sendResult(client, params, "path set successfully");
}
```
1. override play method like this :
```auto
public void play(IClient client, RequestFunction function, AMFDataList params)
{
if (params.get(PARAM1).getType() == AMFData.DATA_TYPE_STRING)
{
String streamName = params.getString(PARAM1);
System.out.println("com.ness.wms.module.FlvOperator.Path :: " + com.ness.wms.module.FlvOperator.Path);
params.set(PARAM1, new AMFDataItem(com.ness.wms.module.FlvOperator.Path + params.get(PARAM1)));
}
com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore.play(client, function, params);
}
```
and it works.
And also if I print value of client.getAppInstance().getStreamStorageDir()
it gives me proper value like “C:\mnt\sdt-platfs1\images\forums2\”
Thanks again for all the help
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### Author:  [@Mayur\_Bais](https://community.wowza.com/u/Mayur_Bais)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/24 "2010-03-18T07:32:09Z")
I am still not sure, how we would do if We have our flvs’ on any server and we need our storage directory to look like “http://…/…”
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### Author:  [@mac\_dodo](https://community.wowza.com/u/mac_dodo)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/25 "2013-09-20T02:36:59Z")
> Change Application.xml /StorageDir to the location you want to use.
>
> ```auto
> c://mnt/sdt-platfs1/images/forums2/FR/0/0/videos
>
> ```
>
> Richard
Hello, Google brings me here 🙂
Do you have this example for a mac OSX server ?
```auto
MACHD://library/Movies/flop/
```
doesn’t work …
thanks !
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### Author:  [@mac\_dodo](https://community.wowza.com/u/mac_dodo)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/change-storage-directory-for-streams/510/26 "2013-09-20T04:39:27Z")
Ok, so symbolic link are working on OSX, where the Aliases are not !
To make a symlink, go to the terminal :
ln -s /target/path /link/path
Doing this allow you to put your video files on another drive easily.
Those threads puts me in the good way, thanks 🙂
[https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?17995-server-media-from-different-folder](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?17995-server-media-from-different-folder)
[http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/](http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/)
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