# Download media files from Wowza
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 2, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428 "2010-10-02T22:47:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Cosmin\_Stanciu](https://community.wowza.com/u/Cosmin_Stanciu)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/1 "2010-10-02T22:47:41Z")
Hello,
can please someone tell me if there is a way of configuring Wowza to be able to download media files using the HTTP protocol in the same way you would download a file from a Web Server?
I know I could configure an Apache server for this task, but I was wandering if Wowza can natively do that.
Thanks in advance,
Cosmin
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/2 "2010-10-02T22:12:23Z")
No, sorry, Wowza can’t do that. You install a web server and map the Wowza content folder to a web location.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/3 "2012-02-21T17:51:20Z")
John,
You would install a web server such as Apache or IIS or Tomcat, then configure the doc root to be the Wowza content folder.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/4 "2012-02-29T19:01:56Z")
Yes, of course.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/5 "2012-02-29T21:14:56Z")
John,
I think you can use Smooth streaming to Silverlight on Windows mobile. See if our Silverlight examples work. Then you can use BuyDRM with smoothstreaming
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-test-buydrm-keyos-drm-playready](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-and-test-buydrm-keyos-drm-playready)
Richard
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### Author:  [@John\_Goodwin](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Goodwin)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/6 "2012-02-21T15:27:19Z")
> No, sorry, Wowza can’t do that. You install a web server and map the Wowza content folder to a web location.
>
> Richard
Hi Richard,
Could you give a little more information on how I’d do this?
Thanks,
John.
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### Author:  [@John\_Goodwin](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Goodwin)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/7 "2012-02-29T14:53:10Z")
> John,
>
> You would install a web server such as Apache or IIS or Tomcat, then configure the doc root to be the Wowza content folder.
>
> Richard
Thanks Richard - but how would this work from a security point of view? Couldn’t users then simply access all our media via the web server IP and filenames?
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### Author:  [@John\_Goodwin](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Goodwin)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/download-media-files-from-wowza/34428/8 "2012-02-29T20:36:32Z")
> Yes, of course.
>
> Richard
So as far as Windows Mobile goes, Wowza doesn’t offer a secure method of providing video? Or am I missing something…? We chose Wowza on the understand that it offered security over all platforms. Is this in fact not the case?
Thanks again,
John.