MACROMEDIA FLASH MEDIA SERVER 2-MANAGING FLASH MEDIA SERVER Manual page 159

Description
Cookies are required when using load balancers to ensure that requests corresponding to one
network connection are always sent to the same server. Keep in mind that the cookie adds to
the HTTP header size and increases the bandwidth overhead.
SSL
Container tag.
Description
The tags in this section configure the incoming connections via the Secure Sockets Layer
protocol, known as SSL. The
an SSL-enabled server to accept incoming SSL connections.
You need to acquire a digital certificate to use SSL. Once you get your SSL certificate through
a certificate authority such as Verisign, or by creating it yourself with a product such as
OpenSSL, you then use the SSL tags to configure Flash Media Server for SSL.
The following is a quick-start to allowing SSL-enabled connections to Flash Media Server.
Go to the section of the Adaptor.xml file.
SSL
Specify the location of the certificate in the
Specify where to find the associated private key file in the
If the private key file is encrypted, specify the passphrase to use for decrypting the private
key file in the
SSLPassPhrase
Save the modified Adaptor.xml file.
Contained tags
container.
SSLServerCtx
SSLCACertificateFile
This tag specifies the location of the certificate to return to clients who want to make a secure
connection to the server.
Description
If an absolute path is not specified, the certificate location is assumed to be relative to the
adaptor directory.
See also
SSLCACertificateKeyFile
tags in Adaptor.xml configure Flash Media Server to act as
SSL
SSLCertificateFile
tag.
tag.
SSLCertificateKeyFile
XML configuration files
tag.
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