[Icecast] Question about replacing the web interface with an audio stream

[Thomas B. Rücker]

Hi,

On 4/7/19 6:33 PM, Jordan Verner wrote:
> In my case the rest of my server was apache/CPanel, so I don’t have a
> choice in the matter.
> Does it matter if the web interface is completely inaccessible, as
> would be a side effect of the alias approach?


That assumption is not right.

The web interface only comes up on the `/` path as it's by default
aliased to `/status.xsl`.
If you replace that alias, then the main web interface page will remain
accessible via `/status.xsl`.

Also, I strongly Agree with Yahav. Avoid reverse proxying Icecast and if
Apache is involved, run as fast as you can. If you need to run a
traditional webserver for other reasons, don't do it on the same address
as Icecast.


Cheers,

Thomas


>
>
>> On Apr 7, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Yahav Shasha <yahav.shasha at gmail.com
>> <mailto:yahav.shasha at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Apache is a terrible choice if youre going to revproxy, specially an
>> http stream, youll have better luck with nginx.
>> However, there might be a simple solution, try something like this:
>> <alias source="/" dest="/mount">
>> Never tried it but it might just work.
>>
>> בתאריך יום א׳, 7 באפר׳ 2019, 21:17, מאת John Molane
>> ‏<icq8852 at fastmail.com <mailto:icq8852 at fastmail.com>>:
>>
>>     That's a good idea and is what I was originally going to do, but
>>     I ran into issues when trying to use SSL with a reverse proxy.
>>     Adding SSL support is what my end goal was when I started messing
>>     with all this, but it doesn't look like it's going to be as easy
>>     as I'd originally thought. It seems that mobile web browsers are
>>     starting to complain when a website doesn't use https, so I
>>     thought I'd try to turn on SSL.
>>
>>     Thanks for responding.
>>
>>     On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, at 14:12, Jordan Verner wrote:
>>>     I did something like this, but the way I did it was more of a
>>>     workaround than what you might want.
>>>     What I did was run icecast on default port 8000, set up Apache
>>>     on port 80, and configured a reverse proxy within apache so it
>>>     would retrieve the audio stream from icecast and deliver it over
>>>     port 80.
>>>     I did it so that my stream would be accessible over public wifi
>>>     with port restrictions, but it accomplishes what you’re asking
>>>     as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>>     On Apr 7, 2019, at 12:43 PM, John Molane <icq8852 at fastmail.com
>>>>     <mailto:icq8852 at fastmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hello,
>>>>
>>>>     I was wondering if someone here could help me out.
>>>>
>>>>     I have a domain that I'm using for Icecast, let's use
>>>>     "domain.com <http://domain.com/>" as an example. Icecast is
>>>>     running on port 80. The problem is that when I go to
>>>>     "domain.com <http://domain.com/>" in my web browser, it brings
>>>>     up the web interface.
>>>>     I want to configure it so that instead of showing the status
>>>>     page, it immediately goes to one of my mountpoints. This would
>>>>     make it so people don't have to remember the full path to the
>>>>     mountpoint.
>>>>
>>>>     Is this possible? I apologize if I'm overlooking something
>>>>     simple. This doesn't seem to be a very common way of using Icecast.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Thanks.
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