# Unable to play sample vod on IOS

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-play-sample-vod-on-ios/50052>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 5, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-play-sample-vod-on-ios/50052 "2017-11-05T05:18:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Louis\_Lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a183cd/32.png) [@Louis\_Lee](https://community.wowza.com/u/Louis_Lee)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/unable-to-play-sample-vod-on-ios/50052/1 "2017-11-05T05:18:51Z")

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Hi,

I’m new to Wowza and was trying out some basic features. I followed the video on playing vod contents, as well as this article on playing vod content on IOS: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-playback-on-apple-ios-devices-cupertino-apple-hls](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-playback-on-apple-ios-devices-cupertino-apple-hls)

I have no problem playing the test video in the test player. I emailed the mobile IOS link to my iphone (6s) but nothing loads on safari. Using the same link on my macbook’s quicktime works though.

Update:

- I’m not able to hit http://[serverip]:1935/serverinfo from my iphone that’s connected to the same WIFI network

- Have added a port forwarding service on my router. IP address pointed to my mac’s IP which is running the streaming server

- Also having connection error when trying to stream live video from my iphone. Added credentials for source authentication to match the source added on Wowza streaming engine manager -\> server -\> source authentication