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CHAPTER 1
Installing Flash Communication Server
Installing Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX is a simple process. This chapter
describes the installation procedure and the files that are installed.
The Flash Communication Server must be installed on Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced
Server or Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or later).
Installing the server
Installing the server is easy. Be prepared to choose an administrator user name and password
during the installation; you’ll need them to use the server’s administration, monitoring, and
debugging tools. You can change them later if necessary.
In addition to the Flash Communication Server, the installer adds two windows to the
Macromedia Flash MX authoring environment if you have it installed on the same computer.
These two windows are the Communication App inspector and the NetConnection Debugger.
For more information about these windows, see Developing Communication Applications.
During installation, you can choose either a Developer Install or a Production Install of the
product. If you choose Developer Install, you can run the samples and test your applications from
the \flashcom\applications directory under the directory you specify. For convenience during
development, client-side application files (SWFs and HTMLs) are stored in the same directory
with your server-side application files (ASCs, FLVs, FLAs).
When you deploy applications, you'll need to separate client files from your server-side source
files. While your SWF and HTML files should be accessible through a web server, your server-
side ASC files, your audio/video FLV files, and your ActionScript FLA source files should not be
accessible to a user browsing your Web site. You can either install the server again on your
production machine and choose Production Install, or you can change the configuration settings
in the administration XML files as described in Chapter 3, “Configuring Flash Communication
Server,” on page 25.
If you choose Production Install, you can specify both the location of your client-side application
files (SWFs and HTMLs) and the location of your server-side application files (ASCs, FLVs, and
FLAs). The server will look for your client-side files under \flashcom\applications in the Web
server's root directory and will look for your server-side application files under \applications
under the directory you specify.
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