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Centova Cast v2 => Technical discussion => Topic started by: Cog on May 17, 2011, 05:33:28 am

Title: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Cog on May 17, 2011, 05:33:28 am

Hi guys, I want to symlink all centova cast accounts to a central music library but need some advice.

Here is an example of an existing account on my server using centova cast and icecast:

/home/centovacast/vhost/testacct

I am using a subdomain for the icecast service at radio.mydomain.com & currently run cpanel for each website account on the server.



1) Can I use a folder under that domain as the central music library? i.e.

user/radio.mydomain.com/public_html/files/


2) if I create a symlink, do I create the destination as 'user/radio.mydomain.com/public_html/files/' and the link goes in /home/centovacast/vhost/testacct ?


If that is correct I then think I should do the following:

cd /home/centovacast/vhost/testacct
in -s /home/centovacast/vhost/testacct user/radio.mydomain.com/public_html/files/

Can anyone advise please?

Thank you.

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Cog on May 17, 2011, 06:54:10 am

actually.. I think it should be, in this example:

cd /home/centovacast/vhost/testacct
in -s /home/centovacast/vhost/testacct /home/cpanel/user/radio.mydomain.com/public_html/files/

Does that look right?

Thanks

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Cog on May 24, 2011, 06:12:03 am

surprised no one has any idea here. I will post up the answer for everyone when I have tested it.

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: J.J. Draijer on July 06, 2011, 02:37:19 pm

Is this what you look for ? https://secure.centova.com/pages/faqs/display/can_i_move_my_media_files_to_a_93

I see it is an old thread, but still a reply ;)

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Cog on July 07, 2011, 08:29:18 am

Thank you JJ, yes this is helpful stuff.

Thank you for replying.

Guy

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Steve C on August 06, 2011, 06:33:02 pm

If the symlink'd files have the right permissions, it should work.

Although, if you open your mp3s for the world to download, you might open yourself to lawsuits...

Title: Re: Advice On Central Media Library Setup
Post by: Cog on August 09, 2011, 07:15:33 am

Thanks Steve, got it working nicely now. I dont have a legal problem as I have contracts with all the artists I use.