XML configuration files

Flash Media Server uses separate XML configuration files for each level of the server hierarchy: server, adaptor, virtual host, application, and logging. Each of these files contains configuration tags that relate to the server, adaptor, virtual host, application, or logging activity they are associated with. To customize the functionality of the server, you edit these tags. The server edits some of these tags itself when you use the management console.

When you're ready to customize the server for your own virtual hosts and applications, you'll edit the server's XML configuration files and the directory structure that contains them. Flash Media Server uses the following configuration files in XML format:

Server.xml
Users.xml
Logger.xml
Adaptor.xml
Vhost.xml
Application.xml

You configure Flash Media Server by editing the contents of these files, either in a text editor or with the management console. If you edit any XML configuration files, you must save the files and then restart the server before the new settings take effect.

The following sections describe the tags in each XML file in detail.