Remove references to config file. #1697

controllers/index.go

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func IndexHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	http.ServeFile(w, r, path.Join(config.WebRoot, r.URL.Path))
 }
 
-// Return a basic HTML page with server-rendered metadata from the config file
+// Return a basic HTML page with server-rendered metadata from the config
 // to give to Opengraph clients and web scrapers (bots, web crawlers, etc).
 func handleScraperMetadataPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	tmpl, err := static.GetBotMetadataTemplate()

core/data/config.go

@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ func GetVideoCodec() string {
 // VerifySettings will perform a sanity check for specific settings values.
 func VerifySettings() error {
 	if GetStreamKey() == "" {
-		return errors.New("no stream key set. Please set one in your config file")
+		return errors.New("no stream key set. Please set one via the admin or command line arguments.")
 	}
 
 	logoPath := GetLogoPath()

utils/utils.go

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ func ValidatedFfmpegPath(ffmpegPath string) string {
 	cmd := exec.Command("which", "ffmpeg")
 	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatalln("Unable to determine path to ffmpeg. Please specify it in the config file.")
+		log.Fatalln("Unable to determine path to ffmpeg. Please specify it in the admin or place a copy in the Owncast directory.")
 	}
 
 	path := strings.TrimSpace(string(out))