# Source stream or file could not be found or access was denied **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [April 11, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/source-stream-or-file-could-not-be-found-or-access-was-denied/45094 "2015-04-11T18:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![George\_Assaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/53a042/32.png) [@George\_Assaad](https://community.wowza.com/u/George_Assaad)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/source-stream-or-file-could-not-be-found-or-access-was-denied/45094/1 "2015-04-11T18:14:12Z")
Hello, First time we touch Wowza and streaming. We are working on a project where we stream form IP cameras (NVR). We followed [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming) And we have seen the following message. now the section after that which is “XML configuration” as we understood is not mandatory as per the following note: “Note: If you created your application by following the previous section, skip this section.” Now when we run the test we get the error message: “Source stream or file could not be found or access was denied” What are we doing wrong? We are running the stream server on VPS debian Wheezy. Thanks, ganewbie ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/source-stream-or-file-could-not-be-found-or-access-was-denied/45094/2 "2015-04-13T06:37:06Z")
Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum. If your IP camera requires a username and password you will need to include them in the playback URL. Like this: ```auto rtsp://username:myPassword@[camera-address] ``` I hope this helps. Kind regards, Salvadore