Frequently Asked Questions about VideoCache - Installation

Videocache can be installed from available binaries or source. For details on installation methods and steps, please check the installation page.

Yes. But your system must satisfy the requirements for videocache. If so, follow the installation from source tutorial.

Yes. If you have the required packages installed and working on your system, then it'll surely work. Follow the install from source tutorial.

Videocache is known to work with Python versions 2.4 or later. If you made it work with earlier versions also, share your thoughts in videocache forums.

VideoCache is know to work with Squid versions 2.6 or later. If you made it work with earlier versions, let us know on videocache forums.

For all unix/linux system, download python iniparse from iniparse website. Untar the package. Go to iniparse-x.x.x directory and use this command to install

[root@localhost iniparse-x.x.x]# python setup.py install

Yes. You can use any web-server you want. Videocache requires your web-server to alias /var/spool/videocache/ directory as /videocache/ so that it can be accessed via http://your_system/videocache/ . If you have a web server that supports aliasing, you can use it without any worries. Check this tutorial for videocache with lighttpd.

Check this tutorial for details instructions.

Use the following command to check it on Linux machines

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -atpn | grep port_number