Community Messenger installation
Copy the entire Flashcoms directory from the archive to the HTTP root folder on your server (the Flashcoms folder should be located in the HTTP root folder i.e. www.sitename.com/flashcoms/).
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If you are using any other Flashcoms products, the files in common folder may be
rewritten but please make sure you have correct data in flashcoms/common/server/php/settings.php
file.
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 Edition |
Create the required database tables using the dump file located in flashcoms/install/sql/updater.my.sql
 Edition |
Create the required database tables using the dump file located in flashcoms/install/sql/updater.ms.sql
Setting server environment variables:
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Edit flashcoms/common/server/php/settings.php file set server environment variables, where:
| DB_HOST |
Database host address |
| DB_USER |
Database account
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| DB_PASSWORD |
Password associated with username
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| DB_NAME |
Database name
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FLASHCOMS_ROOT |
is a server path to the flashcoms folder (i.e. C:/IIS/website.com/flashcoms/ windows
server, /home/website.com/public/flashcoms UNIX server) |
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FLASHCOMS_HTTP_ROOT |
is an http address of the flashcoms folder on your server i.e. http://mywebsite.com/flashcoms/
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FILES_DIR |
Path to the temporary file storage directory. Make sure that write permissions for
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define('DB_HOST', "localhost");
define('DB_USER', "username");
define('DB_PASSWORD', "password");
define('DB_NAME', "db_name");
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define("FLASHCOMS_ROOT", "/path/to/flashcoms/");
define("FLASHCOMS_HTTP_ROOT", "http://yourdomain/flashcoms/");
define("FILES_DIR", FLASHCOMS_ROOT."files/");
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| Edit web.config file and specify the path to temp files folder, http root path and time limit (in seconds) for storing temp files sent via “Send a file” user option. |
<appSettings>
<add key="FLASHCOMS_HTTP_ROOT" value="http://www.sitename.com/flashcoms/" />
<add key="FLASHCOMS_FILES_DIR" value="D:\___dev\flashcoms_60_aspx\2.0\WebApp\flashcoms\files\" />
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Media server application installation
 FMS Edition |
| Copy the directory flashcoms/_install/fms/flashcoms5_Community Messenger
to '<fms_root>/applicactions/' directory |
 Wowza Edition |
1. Copy the following directories to your Wowza root directory:
flashcoms/_install/wowza/flashcoms5_Community Messenger/applications,
flashcoms/_install/wowza/flashcoms5_Community Messenger/conf,
flashcoms/_install/wowza/flashcoms5_Community Messenger/lib
2. Restart Wowza media server
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 Red5 Edition |
1. Copy the directory flashcoms/_install/red5/flashcoms5_Community Messenger to '<red5_root>/webapps/' directory
2. Restart Red5 media server
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Flash security policy.
Flash player has got a strong security policy. It doesn’t load any resources (including xml-files) from an alien domain. The proper domain is the one the swf file is loaded from. Please note that the domain names http://somesite.com and http://www.somesite.com are different domain names for the Flash player.
A universal solution is to redirect users from one domain to another, so that the domain name concurs with the one which is hard-coded into the application. If a user opens http://somesite.com, then he must be redirected to http://www.somesite.com (or vice-versa).
Application test
Please open the following page in your browser:
www.yoursitename.com/flashcoms/test.php (PHP Version)
www.yoursitename.com/flashcoms/test.aspx (ASPX Version)
Choose Video Community Messenger from the menu on the left and if you have installed the application correctly, you will see the following screen, as shown below:
Click on Test button. A new popup window with a Community Messenger instance will appear. |
Installation