Comments on: Setting up a Streaming Media Server on Ubuntu 8.04LTS (Hardy Heron)

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By: Harlequin

Harlequin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:43:26 +0000

For 403 errors its a change in vlc that the http was restricted to only 127.0.0.1. You need to go to the .hosts file in vlc in edit the config to allow it to accept connections from other addresses.

on *nix it is /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts

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By: Michael Janapin

Michael Janapin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:49:02 +0000

I can verify that –http-host=IP:port does give a 403 error.

I tried different ports (the free ones, of course) but still got this error.

I also tried stopping apache to see if it was interfering, but it’s not.

With Apache stopped, it did not even allow me to use port 80.

Anyway, thank you very much for this informative article. I’ll try to find a workaround and post the results here.

By: n00tz

n00tz — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:47:17 +0000

That error means your server is already utilizing port 8080 for some other service. You’ll need to specify the IP and port to use in your command (add a ‘–http-host=IP:port’ with IP equal to an available IP and port equal to an available port on that IP)

By: PixelTunnelVision

PixelTunnelVision — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 07:12:15 +0000

^ Probably because the “vlc -I http” step never completed? In fact, running that just failed. I got…

VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye
[0xa33688] main interface: creating httpd
[0xa33688] main interface error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0xa33688] main interface error: socket bind error (Permission denied)
[0xa33688] main interface error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host
[0xa33688] http interface error: cannot listen on :8080
[0xa33688] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x9194b8] main libvlc error: interface “default” initialization failed