# flowplayer problem with origin/edge & redirect settings **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Tags:** media-players-and-devices\ **Created:** [August 9, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flowplayer-problem-with-origin-edge-redirect-settings/37133 "2011-08-09T16:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yannis\_Marti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@Yannis\_Marti](https://community.wowza.com/u/Yannis_Marti)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flowplayer-problem-with-origin-edge-redirect-settings/37133/1 "2011-08-09T16:55:47Z")
Dear All, Any support will be very appreciate on this issue we encounter during our wowza architecture deployment. We have deployed 4 servers on independent hardware for this configuration. - 2 are set-up as _origin_ - 2 are set-up as _edge_ - encoder (live) -\> origin \<- player : OK - encoder (live) -\> origin -\> edge \<- player : OK - encoder (live) -\> origin -\> edge | origin:redirect \<- player : OK ---
**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:** [August 10, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flowplayer-problem-with-origin-edge-redirect-settings/37133/2 "2011-08-10T14:58:47Z")
Yan, If you are using Wowza Load Balancer, it doesn’t work that way. The redirect app redirects to an edge servers that are configured as Load Balancer Senders. An edge server is what a client connects to and streams from. The edge re-streams from an origin. The load balancer is an overlay that is not directly involved in streaming. In Flowplayer, connect to the redirect app that is configured as shown in the package readme.html. Flowplayer will handle the redirect without any configuration changes on the player side, it is built-in. [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-dynamic-load-balancing-addon](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-dynamic-load-balancing-addon) Richard ---
**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:** [August 17, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flowplayer-problem-with-origin-edge-redirect-settings/37133/3 "2011-08-17T17:19:22Z")
Yan, JW Player has a nice live streaming re-connector plugin that will work for you. If the primary origin fails, clients that stop streaming will re-connect. When they connect to an edge, they should fail-over to your secondary, unless you have made it primary arleady, which is what you should aim to do in that circumstance Richard ---
**Author:** ![Yannis\_Marti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/22d042/32.png) [@Yannis\_Marti](https://community.wowza.com/u/Yannis_Marti)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/flowplayer-problem-with-origin-edge-redirect-settings/37133/4 "2011-08-17T13:01:59Z")
Dear Richard, Thank you for responding to my post, I really appreciate. Unfortunately this dosnt really address the case we have. We need to be able to send the client request on a second loadbalancer if the primary loadbalancer fail. The mechanics involved in this make impossible to configure correctly FlowPlayer for doing this. We are going to try with JW Player and an external JSP to generate a XML source file with the running balancer. But it’s a little beat complicated for doing, what by default balancing & clustering should do. Best, Yan