# How to configure another FTP server Machine as Wowza content directory. **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [January 16, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984 "2012-01-16T00:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Licie\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Licie\_Wang](https://community.wowza.com/u/Licie_Wang)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/1 "2012-01-16T00:40:52Z")
Hi, I want to seperate Wowza server(machine1) and FTP server(machine2), in other words, I want to configure the Wowza content directory to another FTP server machine, when VOD the streaming, Wowza will play the streaming from another FTP server machine. How to configure? Can you help me? Thank you. Lucy. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/2 "2012-01-16T00:35:08Z")
What OS? So, Lucy, you can change the path of your content drive by setting the property in the Application.xml for your application. In Windows you can mount a drive and/or use a UNC path. In Linux you can mount a remote NFS directory. If you can browse to those directories in your filesytem, you will be able to use that path as your property. There are probably utilities out there for making a remote FTP connection appear to be a mounted drive. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/3 "2012-01-19T15:18:28Z")
Is z:\content a mapped drive? There might be a permissions issue Richard ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/4 "2012-06-20T22:59:03Z")
The user running the Wowza server needs to already be authenticated for the share drive/share in question. ---
**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/5 "2012-01-19T13:59:29Z")
Hi Have you changed the “live” stream to “live-record” in order to save the content in that location? 4.) Have the changes been made in the Application.xml in the conf/[Your-Application]/Application.xml? Jason ---
**Author:** ![Licie\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Licie\_Wang](https://community.wowza.com/u/Licie_Wang)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/6 "2012-01-19T03:09:53Z")
I use windows2008. According to your reply, I did following steps, but failed to vod from ftp machine. 1. On FTP machine, share a directory, c:\wowza\content 2. On Wowza machine, map a network drive, z:, the source is FTP machine c:\wowza. 3. Start FTP server, configure FTP share dir, z:\content. 4. Navigator to \conf directory, open application.xml, chang ${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/content to Z:/content. 5. Start Wowza server. 6. Publish live streaming streaming, stop. 7. The streaming is not put to z:\content. Can you help to point which steps are wrong, or I leak steps, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![Licie\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Licie\_Wang](https://community.wowza.com/u/Licie_Wang)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-configure-another-ftp-server-machine-as-wowza-content-directory/37984/7 "2012-06-20T00:37:59Z")
Where the authentication for the remote directory (map or mount drive) can be written? username and password, In which xml? > Is z:\content a mapped drive? There might be a permissions issue > > Richard