Darwin Streaming Server RPM for RHEL6

I wanted to run Darwin Streaming Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

I made binary RPMs for 64-bit RHEL6 using these instructions. My changes:

• fixed the symlink at /var/dss/modules to point to the correct directory
• worked around the fact that DarwinStreamingServer -x does not exit when run
• changed config path so that login to the Web Admin is possible

To install on RHEL6 (or CentOS 6, I presume):

yum install perl-Net-SSLeay
rpm -Uh DarwinStreamingServer-6.0.3-4.x86_64.rpm
qtpasswd -c -p yourpassword yourusername

You'll need to open firewall ports:

iptables -A INPUT --protocol tcp --destination $ip --dport 554 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
# Cheesy perl-based web GUI started by /usr/sbin/streamingserver.pl
iptables -A INPUT --protocol tcp --destination $ip --dport 1220 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
# UDP
iptables -A INPUT --protocol udp --destination $ip --dport 6970:6989 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT --protocol tcp --destination $ip --dport 7070 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT


You can get to the web admin screen at http://example.com:1220.

Also, Apple seems to be moving toward HTTP Live Streaming and away from Darwin Streaming Server.

References
http://www.howtoforge.com/apples-darwin-streaming-server-on-centos-5.2
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/41874/Darwin-Streaming-Server-6-0-3-setup-customization
http://git.m2x.eu/git/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/?p=DarwinStreamingServer.git;a=summary
http://wiki.alessandrodelgallo.org/index.php/DarwinStreamingServer