Where exactly should i add crossdomain.xml file?

Question

Hi everyone...

i am trying to create a internet radio....

I use icecast2 for streaming..... edcast plugin with winamp to send the music to icecast... and the xspf web music player (http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/) to connect the user to the icecast server and play the music....

The setup works great and i can broadcast and receive on the local network i use to test the radio.. using xampp...

Now the icecast broadcasts online from a windows server with the ip address say xx.xx.xxx.xxx

The webpage in which the flash player is embedded is uploaded to www.xyz.com/images/radio

This domain has the same ip address from where the icecast server runs.

Now when i run the webpage to connect to the radio with the flash player, i get the error in firebug as

"xx.xx.xxx.xxx:8000/crossdomain.xml 404 NOT FOUND"

But i have created a crossdomain.xml file in the root of the xx.xx.xxx.xxx server... Still it doesn't recognize the file...

Can anyone tell me where exactly i should create the file for my setting...???

Thanks a lot in advance.....

Answer 1

Could the server you are connecting to be blocking that port? Or perhaps, can you reconfigure the flash player to use port 80? (HTTP which should be open)

To be clear: what you have done should work, the crossdomain.xml should happily sit in the root of the server.

The only other option I can think of it so host the Flash player itself on the server (which has the crossdomain), then update the HTML to reference the SWF there. This might work - but I wouldn't hold my breath (not a Flash expert). Can you give that a try?