Per application publish.password files to control RTSP/RTP encoder authentication

Wowza Developer Dojo
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https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-a-per-application-publish-password-file

2

For RTMP authentication, you need to add this property the level cotainer at the bottom of conf/[application]/Application.xml:

<Property>
	<Name>rtmpEncoderAuthenticateFile</Name>
	<Value>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/publish.password</Value>
</Property>

The property you are changing is only for RTSP/RTP authentication. I know this is all a bit messy but that is just due to the way it has to be due to the way authentication is handled by the different technologies.

Charlie

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Hi Charlie,

I’m trying this but for me don’t work.

On the logs say:

INFO server comment - ModuleRTMPAuthenticate.onAppStart: Authorization password file: /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/conf/publish.password

But my Autentication.xml say:

<Method>
                                <Name>digest</Name>
                                <Description>Digest Authentication</Description>
                                <Class>com.wowza.wms.authentication.AuthenticateDigest</Class>
                                <Properties>
                                        <Property>
                                                <Name>passwordFile</Name>
<Value>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/publish.password</Value>
                                        </Property>
                                        <Property>
                                                <Name>realm</Name>
                                                <Value>Streaming Server</Value>
                                        </Property>
                                </Properties>
                        </Method>

Do you have some advice for fix that?

BTW, I’m using the last AMI on EC2

Thanks in advance!

Alejandro

4

Charlie,

With your new instruction, this work really well.

BTW, this work too with “ApplicationInstance” level.

Only need create into conf/{Application}/{ApplicationInstance}/publish.password

Example: /usr/local/WowzaMediaServer/conf/live/1001/publish.password

My properties:

                        <Property>
                                <Name>rtmpEncoderAuthenticateFile</Name>
                                <Value>${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/${com.wowza.wms.context.ApplicationInstance}/publish.password</Value>
                        </Property>

and this way you can have multiple client in the same Application, but anyone can’t use the ApplicationInstance assigned to other clients.

I hope this Tip be useful.

Alejandro