# Wowza Live Stream Visible on Local Network But Not Over Internet ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [May 20, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337 "2015-05-20T09:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ray\_Dixon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Ray\_Dixon](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ray_Dixon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/1 "2015-05-20T09:01:01Z")
Hi, Would anyone please be able to help me with the settings to get my Wowza live stream to broadcast over the internet? I have got it setup so that I can view the stream in VLC Player via rtsp on other computers on my local network but it is not visible to external computers via the internet. I asked a friend to connect from an external location over the internet and they got messages saying access was unavailable. I have got port 1935 open and the stream is running OK so it looks as though it might just be some configuration settings? Do I need to have Wowza installed on a web server to publish the live stream over the internet? I have it installed on a local PC that is on my local network without any software such as Apache web server running? ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/2 "2015-05-20T14:43:19Z")
Hello, Running a separate Web Server such as Apache is not required. If your server is using a private IP range, 100.64.x.x - 100.127.x.x, 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x, 10.x.x.x, or 192.168.x.x this could be the issue. In order for Internet viewers to see your server, you may need to enable port forwarding on your router or assign your server a publicly routable IP address. Best regards, Andrew ---
**Author:** ![Zoran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/zoran/32/385_2.png) [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/3 "2015-05-22T12:49:11Z")
Hi, Does the RTMP playback URL work? rtmp://86.135.xxx.xxx:1935/live/feedstream Zoran ---
**Author:** ![Ray\_Dixon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Ray\_Dixon](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ray_Dixon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/4 "2015-05-21T05:05:27Z")
> Hello, > > Running a separate Web Server such as Apache is not required. > > If your server is using a private IP range, 100.64.x.x - 100.127.x.x, 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x, 10.x.x.x, or 192.168.x.x this could be the issue. In order for Internet viewers to see your server, you may need to enable port forwarding on your router or assign your server a publicly routable IP address. > > Best regards, > > Andrew Andrew, Thank you for your reply. My local network computer running Wowza has local IP address of 192.168.1.9 and I have assigned port forwarding on my router so that all external requests from the internet to port 1935 are directed to this local IP. When I gave an IP to a friend for testing over the internet I gave them my publicly visible IP address of 86.135.xxx.xxx and port number 1935. I asked them to try to connect using VLC Player using the network address of rtsp://86.135.xxx.xxx:1935/live/feedstream I also made sure they had configured the VLC Player for RTP over RTSP (TCP) but they could not connect. I have also opened up port 1935 in my software firewall on the computer running Wowza to allow incoming requests. Thx ---
**Author:** ![Ray\_Dixon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Ray\_Dixon](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ray_Dixon)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/5 "2015-05-22T07:50:42Z")
> Hi, > > Does the RTMP playback URL work? > > rtmp://86.135.xxx.xxx:1935/live/feedstream > > Zoran Do you mean does it work in VLC Player on a remote computer? I have not tried it, I have only tried the rtsp://… in VLC Player over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![bandish\_dave2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@bandish\_dave2](https://community.wowza.com/u/bandish_dave2)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/6 "2018-03-28T18:22:10Z")
Hello guys i had done port forwarding successfully, here is detail of configuration application name : Wowza internal port: 1935 external port: 1935 protocol: Both(UDP&TCP) ip address: my local machine ip address. Now i am trying to play my video via mobile which is connected on the same network by accessing (**[my local machine ip address:1935]/vod/mp4:sample.mp4**) in mobile browser but it show me the message like **“Wowza streaming engine for trial edition(expires : Apr 28, 2018) 4.7.4 build 21380”,** ideally it should play video. Can you please help me how to play my video in my mobile browser? Thank you in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/7 "2018-04-02T17:48:41Z")
Hello Bandish, You appear to have the port forwarding correct if you’re seeing the WSE version info. The playback URL you’ve mentioned is missing the playlist/manifest info. For HLS this would be as follows: \*\*http://[\*\*my local machine ip address:1935]/vod/mp4:sample.mp4/playlist.m3u8 This should playback directly in Safari or using a player. Best regards, Andrew ---
**Author:** ![bilal\_hocapps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@bilal\_hocapps](https://community.wowza.com/u/bilal_hocapps)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-live-stream-visible-on-local-network-but-not-over-internet/45337/8 "2019-11-04T18:46:14Z")
no its not woring on public ip