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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings icecasting amigos!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve had an incredibly frustrating journey getting a new icecast origin server going to supplant an older machine set for retirement.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The setup is relatively simple – a beefy Debian bookworm host running icecast as a relaying slave pulling the streamlist from an icecast2 2.4.4 ingest server, for mass distribution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ingest / origin server runs fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I opted for compiling the latest icecast-kh for the slave, but ran into issues with the host unable to fetch the master streamlist to relay. (I think due to compiling without explicitly including libcurl?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I then got the prior icecast-kh compiled and it relayed fine, but then I ran into rather bizarre problems consistently displaying the admin/stats.xsl web interface…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I then tried with icecast2 installed from Debian dpkg, but got annoyed with ssl shortcomings, going back to latest icecast-kh - now with libcurl - and got the relaying working fine with ssl sorted.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But the same issue with the adminpages persist:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After starting the icecast service, the admin/stats.xsl displays as a webpage perfectly, as does /index.html. When trying to open a bogus path that doesn’t exist, the page with text “The file you requested could not be found” is returned
as expected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When opening any bogus after /admin in the path eg. /admin/statserf, the <icestats> xml is returned.
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<p class="MsoNormal">All fine after startup / restart - but it doesn’t function correctly this way for very long.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After an indeterminate while the admin/stats.xsl and index pages start to return browser’s 404 not found. (not the page with text “The file you requested could not be found” as above)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However the icecast xml versions are returned fine. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And any bogus url – random path will return the expected /admin/stats.xml<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing I do can restore the normal admin web pages until I restart the icecast service!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And just as luck of murphy would have it –I cant replicate the problem this morning and it seems to be working normally so far…. But why / how did icecast behave that way before – and how to address the issue if it occurs again?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I cant just continually restart icecast and kick hundreds of listeners off every time!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any insight / advise would be greatly appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Oh and PS: little to nothing substantial to be found in the error.log
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marek<o:p></o:p></p>
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