Icecast Streaming Media Server

[mharrison]

I am trying to use the url authentication method but am having trouble getting icecast to work on a Debian installation on a VPS platform.

I have logged in my VPS as root and installed icecast using

apt-get install icecast2
setup the config file and then set ENABLE=true in /etc/init.d/icecast2

This initialy didn't work as it couldn't access log files and then had trouble with the graphics on the admin pages.
I fixed this by copying the graphics from /usr/share/icecast2/web into /etc/icecast/web and by changing the log/web/admin paths
from /var/log/icecast to /log and /usr/share/icecast2/web to /web.
I also had to change the base dir fromto /usr/share/icecast2 to /etc/icecast as none of the linked xmls files could be read.

At this point icecast will run, display the admin pages correctly, allow a source to conenct and users can listen.

However when I enable the authentication it fails to resolve the address for the authentication script. The log files contain just two warnings that I don't understand the implications of/can't resolve.

[2011-06-03 16:47:46] WARN stats/stats_event_conv No charset found for "ISO8859-1"
[2011-06-03 16:55:11] WARN auth_url/url_add_listener auth to server http://www.***.co.uk/online/auth.php failed with Couldn't resolve host 'www.***.co.uk'

running curl from the icecast2 account created during the installation works just fine returning

* About to connect() to www.***.co.uk port 80 (#0)
* Trying 178.250.***.***... connected
* Connected to www.***.co.uk (178.250.***.***) port 80 (#0)
> GET /online/auth.php HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.18.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18
> Host: www.***.co.uk
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:22:35 GMT
< Server: Apache
< icecast-auth-user: 0
< icecast-auth-message: Invalid Stream Requested
< Content-Length: 0
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html
<
* Closing connection #0


I am assuing that this is something to do with access rights but am no unix expert (I developed my authentication system with icecast on a windows box trouble free).

The relevant sections of the config file are below. any help is really appreciated.

Martin

Config
---------
<mount>
<mount-name>/****.mp3</mount-name>
<password>******</password>
<intro>/intro.mp3</intro>
<charset>ISO8859-1</charset>
<public>0</public>
<max-listeners>500</max-listeners>
<stream-name>My Station</stream-name>
<stream-description>Noise on my station</stream-description>
<stream-url>http://www.***.co.uk</stream-url>
<genre>Speech</genre>
<bitrate>64</bitrate>
<hidden>0</hidden>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<authentication type="url">
<option name="listener_add" value="http://www.***.co.uk/online/auth.php"/>
<option name="listener_remove" value="http://www.***.co.uk/online/auth.php"/>
<option name="auth_header" value="icecast-auth-user: 1"/>
<option name="timelimit_header" value="icecast-auth-timelimit:"/>
</authentication>
</mount>
<fileserve>1</fileserve>

<paths>
<basedir>/etc/icecast2</basedir>

<logdir>/log</logdir>
<webroot>/web</webroot>
<adminroot>/admin</adminroot>
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
</paths>

<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
<logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
</logging>

<security>
<chroot>1</chroot>
<changeowner>
<user>icecast2</user>
<group>icecast</group>
</changeowner>
</security>

[mharrison]

All sorted now.

The CHROOT needed switching off, and sensible absolute paths put in.

I also found that the /etc/init.d/icecast2 script needed the change user option removed.

In the proces I discoved that the address the auth file is located at is a shared IP address so pointing by IP address wasn't possible.

Hopefully this will help anybody else with similar issues.