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CHAPTER 2
Deploying Flash Media
Server
This chapter describes the various strategies for deploying Macromedia Flash Media Server 2,
including the use of edge and origin servers.
Flash Media Server has been designed to accommodate many types of media applications.
After installation, the server’s configuration files contain only simple, generic settings. You’ll
need to make some decisions about how to configure the server to best suit your organization’s
requirements.
Typical configurations
Flash Media Server can be used in a variety of different ways, with different configurations. In
most cases, the server is used with a web server. Applications that run on Flash Media Server
consist of clients developed in Macromedia Flash—that is, SWF files. Each application
defined on the server has a corresponding directory that contains the streams and scripts used
by the application.
Your web server is responsible for serving the SWF client files and the HTML pages in which
they are embedded. In addition, you may use an application server along with your web server
and Flash Media Server to incorporate database or other features into your media
applications.
If you are running Flash Media Server on a Linux system, you must also have a Windows or
Macintosh computer with Flash to create Flash Media Server applications. Your client-side
files (SWF and HTML files) for your applications can reside on the Flash Media Server
computer or another computer, depending on where your web server is installed. Your source
files and server-side scripts (ASC, FLA, FSO, and FLV files) must reside on the Linux
computer where Flash Media Server is running.
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