: Is it possible to stream music/video from an Apache server? I'm just starting to get into setting up a server. I've set up a basic Apache server to access some songs and movies. When I click

@Murray432

To do what you want to do you need to ensure that you're using the correct protocols and setting the correct content types, but the majority of it depends on the settings on the client.

For example, if I have a stream to an MP3 I want to play, and I link it to example.com/mycooltune.mp3, it's up to the clients browser to decide what to do. They could be on Windows, OSX, Linux, iPhone, Android, whatever. You can't expect all of these devices to play the same.

However, if I have also got Flash Media Server installed, I might link to rtmp://example.com/mycooltune. In this case iOS will load it into Quicktime, and desktop browsers will open it in whatever is registered for handling that protocol.

The other thing to look at is your content-disposition content headers. If you have Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=mycooltune.mp3 then the browser should always offer it as a download. Other browsers are a bit smarter and will detect Content-Type: audio/mpeg and open it in a streamer.

It all entirely depends on the client really, but if you make sure you remove Content-Disposition headers, then you might have better luck.

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