need help with remote_media

[Baggypants]

Hi, I'm trying to set up my private server to use remote_media
in my conf I have a line

remote_media = http://172.16.0.217/minetestmedia/

(accessible only in my lan)

and in the minetestmedia folder I have a bunch of files generated by the script from here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9260&hilit=remote_media

The media is accessible, I can browse to it using firefox.
however the client isn't touching the remote_media server, not even to check if there is any media there, I'm running a tail on my apache server and it's not showing a single connect. It's like the serve isn't telling the client where to get the media.

Have I missed something obvious?

[ThatGraemeGuy]

Your minetest client must have "enable_remote_media_server = true" in minetest.conf.

[Baggypants]

OK, well, I tried it and I'm still not getting any hits on the website access log. Thanks for the suggestion.

[rubenwardy]

Does your client have cURL enabled?

[Baggypants]

Does your client have cURL enabled?

hmm, I don't know. is there a way to find out? I didn't compile it.

edit: I downloaded and compliled my own with curl, now it works with remote_media

thanks for the help!

[Baggypants]

Actually the one I was using was compiled with curl. when I bring up the menu it shows USE_CURL=1
but I don't know what the difference between that one and the one I compiled is.