nginx-rtmp pushing from one application to another

Question

I'm trying to push a RTMP stream with the nginx-rtmp-module (set up after this manual) from one of its applications into another one. A minimal example of my config (nginx.conf) looks as following.

rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935;
        chunk_size 4096;

        application live {
            live on;
            record off;

            push rtmp://localhost:1935/source/$name;
        }

        application source {
            live on;
            record off;
        }
    }
}

My streaming setup (with OBS) points the broadcast to example.com/live with the StreamKey ($name in nginx) jackbox. Now when trying to watch the stream in VLC, the URL rtmp://example.com/live/jackbox works, however rtmp://example.com/source/jackbox doesn't. Am I misunderstanding what push is supposed to do, or is there any other problem?

If anyone needs more information about the setup, please feel free to ask.

Solution

you can watch it if you put into vlc exactly this: "rtmp://example.com/source/$name". if you want to use $name as variable, you need to remove it from rtmp push completely, so your setup will look like this:

rtmp {
server {
    listen 1935;
    chunk_size 4096;

    application live {
        live on;
        record off;

        push rtmp://localhost:1935/source/;
    }

    application source {
        live on;
        record off;
    }
}
}