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About your installation
During installation, you determine where your client-side application files are installed. Server-side application files are installed in a default location. You should understand the difference between these files:
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Client-side application files are SWF and HTML files. The installer installs SWF and HTML files for the Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.5 sample applications in either the web publishing directory of your choice or the installation directory. However, when you begin developing applications, you can store the client-side files for your applications anywhere. |
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Server-side application files include script files (ASC files), stream files (such as FLVs), and shared object files (FSOs) and must always remain on the server computer. By default, the installer installs server-side files for the sample applications in C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash Communication Server MX\applications in Windows, and /opt/macromedia/fcs/applications on UNIX. (This directory is referred to as the applications directory.) The location of the applications directory is written to the |
When you begin developing applications, you must create a registered application directory for your application in the applications directory with the name of the application and keep the application's server-side files there. For example, for your application called my_app, create a my_app subdirectory in the applications directory and put the server-side files for my_app in that subdirectory (.../applications/myapp). |
During development, you can keep client-side and server-side application files together, if you want. When you deploy applications on a public server, you'll need to separate client files from your server-side source files. Your SWF and HTML files should be accessible through a web server, if you're using a web server. Your server-side ASC files, your audio/video FLV files, FSO files, and your ActionScript FLA source files should not be accessible to a user browsing your website.
In addition to installing the server files on your server computer, you install authoring extensions on your authoring computer, to help you write and manage communication applications in Macromedia Flash. The authoring extensions, such as the NetConnection Debugger and the Communication App inspector, are packaged with Flash Communication Server but can be accessed through the Flash MX authoring tool. If your authoring computer is the same as your server computer, you can install the authoring extensions when you install the server. If your authoring computer is different, see Installing Flash authoring extensions on the Macintosh or Installing Flash authoring extensions in Windows.
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