# Removing the 'playlist' from url
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752 "2016-10-06T22:23:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Sadaba](https://community.wowza.com/u/Benjamin_Sadaba)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752/1 "2016-10-06T22:23:29Z")
I’m accesing a stream using this url:
[http://my.own.server/myapp/](http://my.own.server/myapp/)_definst_/mystream/playlist.m3u8
And I would like to make it available on this url:
[http://my.own.server/myapp/](http://my.own.server/myapp/)_definst_/mystream.m3u8
Is there any way of doing this?
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### Author:  [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752/2 "2016-10-11T08:18:28Z")
Hi,
You could try using the [StreamNameAlias AddOn](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-get-the-streamnamealias-addon) to change the URL (mystream.m3u8) to the correct one without the playback client knowing so the URL would have “mystream.m3u8” on your website. You’d obviously need to test this to see if it works as you’d expect before trying this in a production environment. Details of how to configure the StreamNameAlias can be found in the README included in the download.
Regards,
Jason
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### Author:  [@Benjamin\_Sadaba](https://community.wowza.com/u/Benjamin_Sadaba)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752/3 "2016-10-22T19:08:45Z")
I’m getting this error when I try to play [http://my.own.server/myapp/abcde.m3u8](http://my.own.server/myapp/abcde.m3u8)
> WARN server comment - HTTPStreamerAdapterCupertinoStreamer.onPlaylist: Application context not loaded [myapp/abcde.m3u8]: _defapp_/_definst_
When I have this on the aliasmap.play.txt
> \*.m3u8=${Stream.Name}
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Paul\_Shields](https://community.wowza.com/u/Paul_Shields)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/removing-the-playlist-from-url/33752/4 "2016-11-11T16:33:08Z")
Hi,
What’s happening here is that the URL is missing the stream name - the HLS format is http://[SERVER-IP]:1935/[APP-NAME]/[STREAM-NAME]/playlist.m3u8. You can’t use the stream name alias to rewrite the playlist.m3u8, only the stream name. So you will need to include the Wowza app and stream name in your playback URL. You can though change playlist.m3u8 to mystream.m3u8 and it should still stream, but that change needs to be done on the client.
Regards,
Paul