MACROMEDIA BREEZE, Installation Manual

Configuring Breeze Live

If you install Macromedia Breeze Live on the same computer as the Breeze Presentation platform, no 
additional configuration of Breeze Live is necessary. If you install Breeze Live on a separate computer from 
the Breeze Presentation, you need to perform the configuration steps described in this chapter.

Note: 

If you are using the Breeze Live stand-alone configuration, all references to the Breeze Presentation platform in 

this chapter also apply to the Breeze application server.

Breeze Live creates files that need to be shared with the Breeze Presentation platform. If Breeze Live is not 
on the same computer as the Breeze Presentation platform, you need to set up the shared access to these 
files and copy the custom.ini configuration file used by the Breeze Presentation platform to the Breeze Live 
host computer.

To configure Breeze Live on a separate computer from the Breeze Presentation platform:

1

Create a user account on the domain that contains the Breeze Live and Breeze Presentation platform 
host computers, and give the account administrative privileges to both computers.
This is the Breeze user account. Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform will use this 
account to run as Windows services.

2

Immediately under the Breeze Live installation folder, create a folder called “content” for the files 
that Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform need to share.

3

Share the Breeze Live installation folder so that Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform 
have access to it. 

4

Set permissions on the Breeze Live installation folder. Give the Breeze user you created in step 1 full 
control of the folder.
Because Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform run as the Breeze user you created, this 
privilege lets them write files to the folder and its subfolders. 

5

Set the 

FCS_CONTENT_PATH

 property in the Breeze Presentation platform custom.ini configuration 

file to the location of the content folder you created in step 2.
For example, if the Breeze Live host computer is named ZLIVE, you set 

FCS_CONTENT_PATH

 as 

shown in the following example:

FCS_CONTENT_PATH=\\ZLIVE\

breeze_live_install_folder

\content

For more information about the 

FCS_CONTENT_PATH

 configuration property, see the table of 

configuration properties in 

“Configuring the Breeze Presentation Platform” on page 17

.

The custom.ini configuration file on the Breeze Presentation platform host computer resides in the 
Breeze Presentation platform installation folder.

6

If your Breeze server will serve presentations for Internet clients, add the following entries at the end 
of the configuration file. In the example below, 

breeze.yourhostname.com

 represents the fully 

qualified domain name of your Internet accessible Breeze server as it appears in the Domain Name 
Service (DNS) and in your 

ADMIN_HOST

 entry. 

USE_HOST_MAPPINGS=yes
host.breeze=breeze.yourhostname.com

7

Copy the custom.ini file to the Breeze Live installation folder on the Breeze Live host computer.

8

On the Breeze Presentation platform host computer, set the login properties for the Macromedia 
Breeze Application Service so that the Breeze user account can start the service.
To set login properties for the Macromedia Breeze Application Service:

a

Depending on your operating system, do one of the following:
In Windows 2000, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services.
In Windows XP, select Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative 
Tools > Services.
In Windows 2003, select Start > Administrative Tools > Services