Why can't I connect my Icecast server to a URL?

Question

I have an Icecast server serving at the public IP address of my server, e.g. http://123.456.78.910:8080. I want users to listen at a URL, http://stream.mywebsite.com.

I created an A record to point to my server from stream.mywebsite.com, and and added <hostname>stream.mywebste.com</hostname> to my icecast.xml file. But, nothing happens. I can still stream from my IP, but not from my URL.

There's virtually no documentation on this. Am I missing a step? I've checked for typos, waited for the domain name to propagate, and had no results.

Answer 1

If Icecast is listening on port 8080 then you still need to specify that port also with a DNS entry:

http://stream.mywebsite.com:8080

If you don't want to specify the port then you need to make Icecast listen to port 80. On most Linux distributions that will require starting icecast as root, BUT specify a change user in the server config.