FDS messaging app does not work on server

[richard_lakesid]

I have no trouble getting FDS publish/subscribe working on
localhost, but nothing works on public server. Am I missing
something that is supposed to be obvious?



For example, I got the
Christophe
Coenraets Googlemaps example working nicely locally, but at
this location
FlexMap



The messaging does not work. no error, but nothing is
published, no message event firing,... no fun demo app to show
everyone.



Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.

[aBill]

Is it using rtmp channel? Is there any firewall or proxy
issue for its port? Try polling channel to see what happen.



Thanks!

William Chan

[richard_lakesid]

Thanks for the response.



It is making an RTMP connection to a Flash Media Server, but
that part is working. The thing that doesn't work are the messaging
functions in FDS.



I put this app on a server that is on my linksys router lan,
so I can test it from localhost or 192.168.1.100 or from outside by
pass thru port. The same code runs perfectly on localhost, and the
local 192... address, but not the pass thru.



It is the express version. I can't figure out how to get
anything else. I tried putting in the serial number I got from
purchase of Flex Builder 2, but it didn't accept it.



But I can't find anything that says the express version
doesn't work on a public address.



Richard

[seth_hodgson]

Hi Richard,



Have you had any luck resolving this issue? A public address
versus localhost doesn't impact the FDS Express version (or any
version for that matter). If you enable client side debug output by
adding an <mx:TraceTarget level="0" filters="{['*']}"/> to
your app you should be able to see the client go through its
connection attempt via flashlog.txt or the console in FlexBuilder.
Would you mind giving things another go and posting back how far
the client gets in its connect attempt when you're running through
the pass thru?



Thanks,

Seth

[richard_lakesid]

Seth,



Thanks for the suggestion.



I took me awhile to circle back to this. I gave it another
shot per your suggestion recently, I added that trace tag to the
mxml, but I got stuck on the flashlog.txt. I gather I need to run
this using a flash debug player to write to flashlog.txt. Is that
true?



Anyway, I couldn't find flashlog.txt anywhere. I kinda
thought I had the Flash 9 debug player installed with Flex 2.
Obviously I am rushing into parts of this, I just started using all
this Flash related stuff in recent months.



I confirmed today that the sample apps, e.g., the FDS shared
dashboard charting app, work as advertised on localhost, but not
from a public domain.



I'm betting it is something pretty simple that I need to do
or undo to fix this.