IIS

The headache I had yesterday was huge

I am working on a site for a DVD production company and, of course, we need to stream some video clips.

I thought the best thing here would be to utilize the FLV format to reach a larger audience.

Did You Know!

I had everything laid out in static HTML and tested... I was ready to move it over to the server and start laying down my management code to reuse the same FLV player for all video clips... this meant moving into ASP.NET.

Suddenly, nothing works... I read and re-read article after article after F@#$% article...

Long story short (too late!), Did you know that IIS 6.0 does not contain a MIME type for FLV?

Enough Already, Solve It!

• On the Windows 2003 server, open the Internet Information Services Manager
• Expand the Local Computer Server
• Right-click the local computer server and select Properties
• Select the MIME Types tab
• Click the New...
• Associated Extension box: .FLV
• MIME Type box: flv-application/octet-stream
• Click Ok
• Restart the IIS

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