Need help getting flowplayer to work on Godaddy Created Sep 1, 2009

On of my groups uses GoDaddy with Joomla but we have yet to push out the code to our public server yet.

It is unlikely that GoDaddy is the problem, per se. Could you pass along a URL and/or your code. Hard to help with so few details.

I did get it working finally, its was something messed up in the scripts folder. I re uploaded it and it started working. Just not happy with godaddy, seems like everything I try to do on their hosting it doesn't work. They just told me to google the answer. Big help they are. All is good for now. Thanks for getting back to me zebray.

There are much better and equally affordable hosting providers. GoDaddy in my opinion blows - but my client is embedded. What can you do!

I've heard a lot of... well, negative testimonials with regards to GoDaddy and have avoided it while searching for hosting service providers. What servers in particular work best with FlowPlayer?

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We have FlowPlayer deployed and working on a GDaddy enterprise server (stand alone box). Linux / Apache / TomCat / JRE. Works fine, I don't know of any others? The problem with GDaddy is support - you won't get any. The other problem with GDaddy is tech support has on three occassions (mainly when installing SSL certificates) completely f**k our server configs and then said to us, We don't offer support. It took us five hours to figure out what changes they made and roll back to our configs.

I'm getting trouble with getting flowplayer to work in godaddy

In my localhost server (visual studio dev web server) all goes fine... but when I upload the code to godaddy the flowplayer just shows the preview image and when I click the browser (IE, FF, etc) opens the download dialog instead of playing the video.

You can take a lookhttp://www.ubireach.org/Pages/Portfolio/ClientVideo.aspx?Type=CL&ClientId=2

I really can't understand whats going on...

Thank you for any help you may provide.

Best Regards,
Gonçalo Luiz

I am guessing the problem is with the flowplayer control swf path in line:

flowplayer("a.myPlayer", "/website/pages/script/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.2.swf");

There are three guesses as to why this could be problematic:
1) Easy and quick, try "website/pages/script/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.2.swf"
without the leading / to website
2) Also easy and quick, confirm 100% that the path is correct!
3) Complicated as below

the path /websites/.... is probably fine on a local server but these clustered servers usually have a very different path. I think in dot net you can try

Server.MapPath("website/pages/script/flowplayer/")
which gives the true server path of the folder and use it as a string and add flowplayer-3.1.2.swf to the end of it

As in
Dim flowplayerPath As String = Server.MapPath("website/pages/script/flowplayer/") + "flowplayer-3.1.2.swf"

and drop in the flowplayerPath to the script.

The page clearly is not loading the SWF and that is almost certainly because the path is wrong.

Good hunting.