# New to wowza engine trial, cannot stream

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [January 3, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430 "2016-01-03T22:47:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Frank\_Clark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Frank\_Clark](https://community.wowza.com/u/Frank_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430/1 "2016-01-03T22:47:08Z")

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I have setup the trial version of woza on my local machine, forwarded the host ip and default port etc and cannot stream from gocoder, wirecast, or vmix. Not sure where I am going wrong.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430/2 "2016-01-04T07:50:12Z")

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Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

You can start Wowza in stand-alone mode (install-dir/bin/startup.bat|startup.sh) and view the output in the console. This will aid in identifying any issues with server startup, or errors while publishing a stream.

Please let us know what you find out.

Regards,

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430/3 "2016-01-05T10:45:01Z")

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Please confirm you are starting Wowza as root/admin, if you are still having these errors as root, please uninstall/re-install Wowza and see if that corrects this. You will find [instructions here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-upgrade-wowza-media-server-software-to-wowza-streaming-engine) to uninstall the software.

if the problem persists, please open a ticket with support by sending a zipped copy of your /conf and /logs folders to support@wowza.com. Include a link to this thread as a reference when opening a ticket.

Thank you,

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Frank\_Clark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Frank\_Clark](https://community.wowza.com/u/Frank_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/new-to-wowza-engine-trial-cannot-stream/46430/4 "2016-01-04T18:29:02Z")

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Attached is what comes off both commandline windows

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrfjunwq6944k4u/wowza%20stabndalone.rtf?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrfjunwq6944k4u/wowza%20stabndalone.rtf?dl=0)