Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-08 Thread tunist
i did explore that possibility for several days, but did not achieve success. part of the problem is that the videos have dynamic privacy settings applied to them and so PHP is used to decide which videos the present user can view and which ones they cannot view. i looked at using various directive

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-08 Thread tunist
thanks again for assisting. i have resolved this now since i realised that the php file i use to stream the files did not support partial content ;) i thought that nginx had some kind of built in 'magical' support for that which meant that my application didn't need to handle it. however, that is n

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-07 Thread tunist
aha! yes, the cause of the problem was the lack of range handling in the PHP page i am using for streaming the files. i forgot that that is a requirement of the process! i have added the videostream class to the page and so far the streaming is working well in my tests :) Posted at Nginx Forum: h

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-07 Thread tunist
oh, so it seems likely that i need to add extra logic into the PHP page that handles the video stream to support range requests - as detailed here: http://codesamplez.com/programming/php-html5-video-streaming-tutorial Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260615,260852#msg-2608

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-07 Thread tunist
oh, so it seems likely that i need to add extra logic into the PHP page that handles the video stream to support range requests - as detailed here: http://codesamplez.com/programming/php-html5-video-streaming-tutorial Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260615,260853#msg-2608

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-07 Thread tunist
yes, i removed some of the original question since it was shown to not be relevant to the issue. i appreciate that maybe it would be best to write 'EDIT:' when i edit there, but then the question might become huge.. so in the interest of balance, i just cut some parts out. "Right now, it looks to

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-06 Thread tunist
i have now updated the serverfault question to include the nginx config files. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260615,260835#msg-260835 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-06 Thread tunist
i mentioned the possibility of a bug since i have already exhausted all options presented to me via numerous channels of research and support. i will post my server/site's full config to serverfault shorly. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260615,260833#msg-260833 ___

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-06 Thread tunist
i have now created question on this topic on serverfault and on stackexchange's video site - but have not found the solution to the problem. i have looked into all the answers i have received so far and none have made any difference to the fact that my server is not reliably serving video. all my M

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-02 Thread tunist
i thought i had solved this by adding the header for accept-ranges - since when i did that i could then seek in firefox on windows 7. however, after testing further i found that the results are inconsistent and ultimately it is still somewhat broken. i have added more details to this to a new quest

Re: mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-08-02 Thread tunist
oh, so the solution here was to add: add_header Accept-Ranges bytes; to the site's config file. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260615,260702#msg-260702 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/li

mp4 streaming/seeking works from firefox (fedora) and not from firefox (windows) (nginx 1.9.3)

2015-07-29 Thread tunist
greetings! i am seeing an unexplained malfunction here with nginx when serving videos. flv and mp4 files have different symptoms. mp4 streams correctly when i view the file in firefox 39 in fedora 22, but in windows 7 (firefox 39) the file cannot be 'seeked' and must be played linearly. after spea

Re: nginx fails to start - nginx.service not found

2015-03-22 Thread tunist
Konstantin Pavlov Wrote: --- > Nginx source code does not contain a service file for systemd. You're > free to re-use the one shipped in the official packages available on > http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline. > > Also, it might

nginx fails to start - nginx.service not found

2015-03-19 Thread tunist
i just built the latest mainline nginx from source on fedora 21 (64bit) and when i run: service nginx start i see: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start nginx.service Failed to start nginx.service: Unit nginx.service failed to load: No such file or directory. i've searched around online and so fa

intermittent problems reaching files (whether served via php or not)

2014-11-19 Thread tunist
having difficulty to serve simple video files here (for playback in a browser via video-js or other player). even without the video player there are problems. i have tested access to the video file both when the file is served from within the php framework i am using (elgg.org) and also directly fr

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-17 Thread tunist
ok great, thanks for assisting Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,254523,254864#msg-254864 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-07 Thread tunist
i was having a lot of trouble with 302 errors initially and then later on was having slow TLS performance.. i had difficulty finding the right combination of buffer settings to get the site to run reliably and quickly. if i recall correctly, that was a field that i changed while i was in the proce

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-07 Thread tunist
enabling debug on the site in question generated vast amounts of log data and i think either some type of limit was reached or a bug caused the logging to fail. i was unable to open the logviewer for the site's error log after the first few minutes and eventually the interface crashed while attempt

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-06 Thread tunist
ok, so i opened the log using glogg and have pasted a relevant sequence into pastebin here: http://pastebin.com/wTQs6ALb any tips welcome, thanks Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,254523,254651#msg-254651 ___ nginx mailing list

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-06 Thread tunist
oh, so the log file is 3.5GB in size and even though the server has enough RAM to handle it, the log viewer crashes and gedit gets stuck too. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,254523,254648#msg-254648 ___ nginx mailing list nginx

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4 - 1.7.7

2014-11-05 Thread tunist
"There's no way to find out what caused the error only by looking to standard error message. You should provide the debug log at least." - ok, thanks - i will post what i can find once the next error occurs. i upgraded to 1.7.7 and there have been 2 of these errors since then, though debug was not

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4

2014-11-02 Thread tunist
ok, i have upgraded.. will see how that goes. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,254523,254527#msg-254527 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

Re: SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4

2014-11-02 Thread tunist
thanks, looks like the same error message is buried in that change / code, yes - though i am no closer to discerning the original cause of the error being triggered, since i am not familiar with the nginx sourecode at this point. any tips are welcomed! Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.o

SPDY inflate errors in nginx 1.7.4

2014-11-02 Thread tunist
i am seeing many error log messages relating to SPDY on an HTTPS only website here. this appears to also be triggering (or at least related to) database timing problems, which is causing dbase failures. the error log contains mostly these: "inflate() failed: -5 while processing SPDY" anyone know

Re: SPDY errors in log

2014-10-19 Thread tunist
. so i just put up with the regular error log entries for inflate? mex Wrote: --- > hi tunist, > > if you want to test your server for CCS-vuln you might use > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ > > or the testscript from

Re: SPDY errors in log

2014-10-19 Thread tunist
fedora 20 - latest version of openssl = 1:openssl-1.0.1e-40.fc20.x86_64 though when i run openssl version, i see: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 not sure why..!? mex Wrote: --- > CCS-scan probably, see > https://www.mare-system.de/guide-to-n

Re: SPDY errors in log

2014-10-19 Thread tunist
oh, and another: *188425 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:14094085:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:ccs received early) while SSL handshaking, client: xx.xx.xx.xx.xx, server: 0.0.0.0:443 is this maybe a result of hackers attempting to break into the server? Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.

SPDY errors in log

2014-10-19 Thread tunist
i just noticed several entries in the main nginx log here that are: [error] 28042#0: *12244 inflate() failed: -5 while processing SPDY, client: xx.xx.xx.xx, server: 0.0.0.0:443 anyone know what this is caused by? i haven't found anything in the search engines that relate yet Posted at Nginx Foru

Re: 502 errors while running elgg social network app.. used the common solutions already

2013-07-16 Thread tunist
looks like i found the answer to this.. i needed to increase the fast_cgi_connect_timeout to 120 seconds as my server is not so quick. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,240922,240927#msg-240927 ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx

502 errors while running elgg social network app.. used the common solutions already

2013-07-16 Thread tunist
greetings! does anyone here have a reliable way of accurately calculating all the various parameters that are used in the .conf files for nginx hosted sites - that may cause 502 errors if set inaccurately? i am running an elgg social network (php code + mysql - http://www.elgg.org) and recently i