Connect to VOD Zone

To connect to your VOD Zone to upload files, please follow these steps:

VOD Zone Upload Instructions

1. Use FTP port 21 or SFTP port 22 from any upload program
2. For new video uploads, it can take up to 1 hour for your video to be viewable from all locations.
3. HOSTNAME = ftp.ZONENAME.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com
   USERNAME = ZONENAME.ALIAS
4. VOD Zone files can be directly downloaded or streamed through RTMP, RTMPT or RTSP
   • RTMP (Over port 1935) or RTMPT (Over port 80) Setup

     URL = url: 'vod/ZONENAME.ALIAS/filename'
                     netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://r.ZONENAME.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com/play'

   • RTSP Setup

     URL = url: 'rtsp://d.ZONENAME.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com/play/_definst_/vod/ZONENAME.ALIAS/filename'

   • iPhone Streaming

     http://d.ZONENAME.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com/play/_definst_/vod/ZONENAME.ALIAS/filename/playlist.m3u8

   • PSEUDO Streaming

     clip: { url: 'http://p.ZONENAME.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com/vod/ZONENAME.ALIAS/filename', provider: 'lighttpd' }

   Important Note:

   For RTMP(T,TE) and iPhone streaming if filename = an mp4 variant then add “mp4:” before “vod” in path name

Custom upload scripts – short examples

1. Python – using pysftp
   1. Install pysftp:

      $ sudo pip install pysftp

   2. Create upload script:

      # Example local file to upload
                      remote_file = 'test.txt'
                      srv = pysftp.Connection(host="ftp.ZONE.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com", username="ZONE.ALIAS",
                      password="your_ftp_password")
                      srv.put(remote_file)
                      srv.close()
                      

2. Ruby – using net-sftp
   1. Install net-sftp:

      $ sudo gem install net-sftp

   2. Create upload script:

      require 'net/sftp'
                        Net::SFTP.start('ftp.ZONE.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com', 'ZONE.ALIAS', :password => 'your_ftp_password') do |sftp|
                          sftp.upload!("test.txt", "/test.txt")
                      end
                      

3. PHP – using sudo libssh2-php
   1. Install libssh2-php:

      $ sudo apt-get install libssh2-php

   2. Create upload script:

      <?php
                      $server = 'ftp.ZONE.ALIAS.netdna-cdn.com';
                      $port = '22';
                      $username = 'ZONE.ALIAS';
                      $passwd = 'your_ftp_password';
                      $connection = ssh2_connect($server, $port);
                      if (ssh2_auth_password($connection, $username, $passwd)) {
                      $sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection);
                      echo "Connection status: OK. Uploading file!"."n";
                      $file = 'test.txt';
                      $contents = file_get_contents($file);
                      file_put_contents("ssh2.sftp://{$sftp}/{$file}", $contents);
                      } else {
                      echo "Nope! Can not connect to server!"."n";
                      }
                      ?>