# Content Folder Access From Remote Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [March 6, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/content-folder-access-from-remote-server/38289 "2012-03-06T13:50:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/content-folder-access-from-remote-server/38289/7 "2012-03-07T17:50:15Z")
“I need to know how to access the files to at least see them.” One typical way would be to use your webserver. For example, if your Apache document root is /var/www you can edit your Application.xml property to be “/var/www/content”. Then you can view your files by browsing to “[Free classifieds - yourdomain.com](http://www.yourdomain.com/files)”. “Things like that are so easy with server side scripting, like PHP. I am assuming that that there is no scenario where I would use any of that on the video server itself.” In the case of Wowza the server side scripting would be a Wowza Java module. How easy it is, is equal to PHP, right? You’ll want to check out the File Mover Module: > **[Move recordings of live streams](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-move-recordings-from-live-streams)** > > Use the MediaWriterFileMover Wowza Streaming Engine Java module to copy or move files after they've been recorded to disk. The source for it is here: > [@Custom Move Module](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35667): > > I have a custom module and I need to move a file once its recorded to an S3 mounted drive. I’m on an EC2 AMI installation of 2.1.2. When I try to move the file, I test to make sure it exists and then attempt to move the file using “renameTo” Debugging says the file DOES exist but that it “failed to move”. This happens consistently I have attempted to use the built-in filemove module but the versioning screws up the file name because it ends in numbers that are programmatically created and I can… If I understand what you’re looking to do, you might not need a Wowza module. In your web CMS, you’ll have the user’s name and the date. You’ll have the Flash client (user) publish a stream name with that info, and have your Wowza application use a “live-record” streamtype. You’ll keep track of the filenames in your CMS in conjunction with a database. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.wowza.com/t/content-folder-access-from-remote-server/38289)._