FLV 404 Error On Windows 2003 Server

Posted July 26, 2007 at 11:48 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Work

Reader Comments

This tip is already in our ToDo list when we install a new server. :)

I know I spent a lot of time to find out the reason of this problem and this will be useful for others also.

What makes it so frustrating is that the SWF file works fine... it just looks like the FLV file is not loading into it properly. So of course, you think its just a path problem or something! Uggg :)

I've been bit by this little nuance as well.

funny, but i had same problem not long ago and blogged about it just yesterday http://www.1smartsolution.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=FCE65E88-50BF-1286-4BD978F4378AAE45

:)

Ha ha, small world :) I hope you didn't waste as much time as I did!

Jeez! Wasted an hour on this little doozy! How come FLVs worked on our old server? I'm sure we had to do this before.

THANKS!!!

I mean... "never had to do this before".

Yeah, silly IIS! :)

Oooh, that was happened to me before, but I catch - after long time - it by trying to download the flv file useing its full path. I don't remember what was the error, but it has been solved doing the same steps you wrote.

thanks

Thank you so much

Spent houers looking at first code then crossdomain policy issues then searching for flash related help and then I tried to dl the flv file directly from browser which finally got me to put in windows in the search criteria and then I found your page so...............

But ain't this what development is allways all about

@Peter,

Always glad to help. It took me a while to find this out also - I hope that I cut down on your search time a bit :)

Thanks a lot my friend.. this help me to fix the issue on the fly.. Great solution posted.

Forwarded this to University ITS, fixed my problem.
Thank you!

thanks, man!

Thanks, Ben! Found this via a Google search for "Flash Video 404." Exactly what I needed. You made my day.

Sweeeet!

Thanks a ton...I was beginning to think I was going crazy. My search to find you was 404 error flv

@Dan,

Rock on, glad to help :)

Nice tip, thank you and stumble!

Thank you. I love you!

For what it's worth, you don't have to go through the trouble of restarting the WWW publishing service. Simply open up a command prompt (start > run > "cmd") and type "iisreset" and hit enter. I've found this to be faster and obviously easier, with the same result.

@Adam,

Thanks for the tip.

Wonderful! I'll try this... really hope it works!

Legend... Thanks... Works a treat

This was exactly what I was looking for! Fixed my ailing problem.

May have saved me a few hairs from being pulled out. Only half bald now!

You saved me a ton of hassle. Thanks for this great post!!!

Thanks a lot. I waw wondering why I got that 404 error.

Thanks for the info... this was a great help as i had spend my entire day on this issue......

I spent a good couple of hours on this today. What a pain. On my old server, everything was fine. I migrated the site to a new server, and suddenly, all the files with audio didn't work. Just got nothin'. When i noticed the audio files had FLV counterparts, and did a search for "FLV IIS". Viola! Thanks!

@Rick,

No problem at all; when I first ran into this, it struck me as somewhat odd that you even needed to register file extensions. I just assumed that all files would be served up, except for perhaps some black-listed ones.

Ben,

Did I ever tell you, YOUR THE MAN. This saved me from hours of head banging pain. Thanks.

Curt

@Curt,

Ha ha, no problem, glad to help.

Luckily I didn't get bit so bad by this one, as the very first thing I did was try to browse to the file. Typically anytime I dump a file onto a webserver, no matter what kind it is, I try to browse to it first. Then I can make sure I didn't put it somewhere that the web server isn't configured for.

Still glad though that I could find an answer so quickly.

@David,

Glad you got it worked out quickly :) When things don't work on a server, I tend to panic a bit. I'm slowly getting better.

thanks Ben - uploaded my FLV twice, checked code twice, searched Google once... found your post. Magician.

@Sam,

Team work (high five)!

Awesome, can't remember how many times I have ended findong my solution here. Thanks Ben

It is very useful. It works.
Thanks so much.

Thank you for this quick and useful tip.

Over 5 years later and this is still relevant.

I just went through this same problem pulling my hair out thinking my paths were incorrect, etc.

I just wanted to say Thank You Ben for posting great solutions!

Don't stop, you rock!

Carl

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