# connection limit

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 28, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199 "2011-02-28T12:49:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_Russ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Andy\_Russ](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andy_Russ)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/1 "2011-02-28T12:49:29Z")

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hi

i can alter in my config file what i want, but connection limit always limited to 100…

do you habe any idea? in vhost.xml i’ve defined 300 per stream. but it doesn’t work…

regards

andy

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/2 "2011-02-28T14:33:18Z")

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Andy,

Follow this Article:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-limit-the-number-of-viewers-to-a-stream-modulelimitstreamviewers](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-limit-the-number-of-viewers-to-a-stream-modulelimitstreamviewers)

There aren’t any changes to VHost.xml necessary.

The above is included in the Wowza modules collection:

[https://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/collection/wms-plugin-collection.zip](https://www.wowza.com/downloads/forums/collection/wms-plugin-collection.zip)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/3 "2011-02-28T15:02:14Z")

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Did you restart Wowza after adding the collection jar to the Wowza lib folder? You have to restart after adding jar files

Richard

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/4 "2011-02-28T15:12:05Z")

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Zip up and send us your /conf _and_ /logs folders to support@wowza.com

Tell which application you are trying to configure.

Include a link to this forum post.

Richard

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**Author:** ![Andy\_Russ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Andy\_Russ](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andy_Russ)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/5 "2011-02-28T15:54:54Z")

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hi richard

nothing changed:-( on every stream i have 100 connections. the jar file i’ve copied to the lib folder. the code at the bottom of application.xml is saved, wowza server restarted…but 100 connections…

maxStreamViewers

300

Integer

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**Author:** ![Andy\_Russ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Andy\_Russ](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andy_Russ)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/connection-limit/36199/6 "2011-02-28T16:08:22Z")

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yes i did… but only wowsa service not the entire server?