VLMa/Documentation:Installation
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Requirements
- A JDK version 5.0 or higher
- VLMa binary package
How to
First extract VLMa distribution archive to the folder of your choice, you should see the following folders:
- bin/ Command line wrappers to manage VLMa
- conf/ Configuration
- data/ Data
- lib/ Dependencies
- logs/ Log directory
- webapps/ Webapps to deploy
- work/ Folder needed by the servlet container
UNIX specific
Ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable has been set. Run the following command:
echo $JAVA_HOME
If it does not print anything to the standard input but whitespaces, this means that JAVA_HOME has not been set. You can set JAVA_HOME using the following command:
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/JDK/installation
Then open a terminal and go to the folder where you extracted VLMa. You can run VLMa daemon by running the following command:
bin/vlmad start
To run the web UI, open a new terminal and run:
bin/vlmaw start
Windows specific
Ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable has been set and that it points to a valid JDK installation. To do this, have a look at:
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 for Windows XP,
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931715 for Windows Vista.
Then open a prompt and change directory to where you extracted VLMa. You can run VLMa daemon by running the following command:
bin\vlmad start
To run the web UI, open a new prompt and run:
bin\vlmaw start
The end
To finish with, go to http://localhost:8080, you should see VLMa dashboard which tells you which medias are currently streamed and the list of servers VLMa didn't manage to contact through their telnet interface.
