Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I've been trying to set up the Icecast server for a while now and am being stopped at every turn with my own apparent inability to get this done.

While setting up Icecast, I was prompted to install ogg vorbis. I tried to install vorbis and was prompted to set up ogg. I tried to install ogg, but for some reason it won't work because the vorbis installation stops and says I haven't installed ogg. All this means I can't install Icecast.

I've followed directions but just can't get anywhere.

This is what I am trying to do...

Set up icecast on my VPS...yes, I have shell access...to reflect the broadcast being sent to the VPS from my PC using SAM Broadcaster.

If ANYONE can help me with this, I would be grateful. You can add me to skype, myghostxm or you can contact me via msn messenger, or through here. But, please, someone help

[karlH]

You said ogg won't install because of vorbis which doesn't make sense as libogg does not depend on vorbis. libogg is needed to be installed but you haven't said ehether these a prebuilt packages or source.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Right...

I tried to do the install on libogg by running libogg/configure. It does it's thing and then I run libvorbis/configure. But it keeps saying that ogg isn't installed. Admittedly I know little about shell commands, but the untar runs fine, the running of ogg runs fine but it just doesn't install. Do I run the /install-sh? or is the /configure the one I go with. Vorbis and Ogg both are packages from Xiph.com. Icecast won't install without these two apps.

[karlH]

The basic GNU process involves 3 steps.
configure
make
make install

Each of these can take other args like make debug before make install but they all follow the same procedure.

karl.

[Anonymous]

did...

make
and
make install

there was one file that could not write and I assume it was a permission problem. But of course it was the file that vorbis needs to read in order to set up. I think it was ogg. that couldn't write. So, the process stalled out again until I can change the permission on the folder that is causing problems.

[karlH]

make install usually requires root privileges but it depends on the location of the installed paths. A non-root user should not be able to write files into system directories and changing that is very bad idea.

karl.

[Anonymous]

I finally got it installed. Maybe. When I go to http :// myipaddy :8080/ I get the admin screen. But when I click on the link there, I just get a page not found error. What did I do wrong on the install?

[karlH]

Considering that you haven't said what you have done and that there's no reference to any log messages or the xml then it's very much impossible for anyone to say. A URL which consists of the hostname and port usually (via an alias) refers to the /status.xsl page not the admin page so we have no idea what you have done.

karl.