Icecast Streaming Media Server

[karlH]

That message would indicate that the server is running but there is no accessible content (eg status.xsl) in the webroot within your chroot jail.

karl.

[TheHat]

Hi Karl Thanks for your reply. Any ideas on how to resolve.

If I try to start the server using putty with the following command;

icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml

I will get the following message

Changed root successfully to "/home/icecast/icecast".
Changed userid to 511.

but then it seems to hang. I then use killall icecast and no process running?

And still The file you requested could not be found when i point to url.

TheHat

[karlH]

If you are getting a response on that port and icecast is not running then obviously something else is running on that port, probably preventing icecast from getting access to that port.

as root try, netstat -tnlp | grep 9000

karl.

[TheHat]

Here's the response

> netstat -tnlp | grep 9000
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 20671/icecast

[TheHat]

I have changed port to another number and still get the same response at the URL.

I already have a shoutcast stream running on this server at port 8000 which works fine. But we want to change to using an OGG vorbis encoder.

Does it matter where the icecast 2.3.2 gets installed, does it have to be installed in the same directory as the logs etc?

I'm still getting this hang in putty when i start the server.

[karlH]

icecast with a -b will background the process or you can add a & at the end of the line, a hang means that there is no response from the process.at all, even with the browser.

The netstat proves that there is a process and is listening on port 9000.

The location of the program can be anywhere you want but the xml defines where the logs, webroot and admin directories are. In this case you have placed everything under /home/icecast/icecast. Logs are typically placed in a suitably named directory in the jail rather than root but you can have that if you wish.

What I don't know is the layout of your jail under /home/icecast/icecast. Is that directory writeable by user icecast, what are the permission of files under webroot, what is reported in the error log?

karl.

[TheHat]

Here's the error log. I have noticed some of the folder/files are under user icecast, the web folder is under root, so i'll change this.

[karlH]

looks like you are requesting / from the server, and because you have changed the alias of / then icecast is referring to a directory and is therefore not reporting any content. If you want the status page in such cases then you will need to put back that alias to as it was

<alias source="/usr/local/share/icecast/web" dest="/status.xsl"/>
to
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>

this will then look for /web/status.xsl in your jail

karl.

[TheHat]

Many thanks for all your help

Will give this a go and post back tomorrow.

TheHat

[TheHat]

Karl

Working a treat, many thanks for all your help.