Streaming Media Server Wowza Streaming Engine 4 installation and Upgrade tutorial
The company's Streaming media server is running wowzamediaserver 3.6 and is planning to upgrade to Wowza Streaming Engine 4 recently. In fact, wowza4 has been released for a long time. It has not been upgraded for various reasons, we will share with you the upgrade process today.
1. upgrading wowza to Wowza Streaming Engine 4 is free of charge, but the serial number needs to be changed. Further details are required. Here, we remind you that you must complete all the updates before the wowza3 serial number expires, otherwise, if the production environment goes down, the problem will be big .... be cautious
2. Uninstall wowzamediaserver 3.6
Before detaching, back up the configuration file, self-developed jar package, and other important files. If there is a shared directory, remember umount.
The real uninstall process is actually very simple.
Rpm-qa | grep Wowza confirm the installation package
Rpm-e WowzaMediaServer-3.6.3-ga.noarch this step is simple
3. download the latest installation package
: Http://www.wowza.com/pricing/installer
4. Installation
After the installation package is downloaded, move it to the installation directory. Here I install it under/usr/local /.
# Music WowzaStreamingEngine-4.0.6.rpm.bin/usr/local/
# Chmod + x WowzaStreamingEngine-4.0.6.rpm.bin
#./WowzaStreamingEngine-4.0.6.rpm.bin
During installation, you will be asked:
Accept the license agreement)
Enter a valid product authorization serial number. The serial number is sent to you by Wowza via email and you will find it in the inbox.
The username and password required to create an administrator account. You will use this account to log on to the Web-based Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. Note: usernames and passwords are case sensitive.
Follow the prompts to proceed step by step. After the installation is complete, you can see that the current directory generates an installation folder WowzaStreamingEngine, and there is a shortcut to connect to the WowzaStreamingEngine-4.0.6, here is the address where the program is stored.
The specific list is as follows:
The basic installation is complete, which is no big difference from the previous wowza3 installation. You can see that there are several more things in the installed folder, such as manager mediacache stats, yes, that's the difference between WowzaStreamingEngine and earlier versions.
The official explanation is: Wowza Streaming Engine provides a powerful and intuitive Web Management Interface: Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. With this Web management system, users can easily configure, manage, monitor, and detect audio and video streams on PCs, tablets, or mobile phones.
The user name and password entered during installation are used for Logon here. After logon, the home page is displayed.
Very powerful management interface, many details in it need to be explored slowly.
Now, let's install the configuration. We will continue to talk about the modification of the WowzaStreamingEngine configuration file and performance optimization.