Red5 is open source flash server written in java supports streaming audio/video, recording client streams, shared objects, live stream publishing etc. Here I will describe in details how you can install Red5 on your CentOS. For this you will also need to install Java and Apache Ant.
Step 1. Install Java
RED5 server depends on Java. CentOS 5.3 comes with OpenJDK 1.6 and install it using yum.
yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
Step 2. Install Ant
Ant will need to compile RED5 server code. Ant comes in binary form, so just download and install it in /usr/local directory.
cd /usr/src wget http://opensource.become.com/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz tar zxvf apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz mv apache-ant-1.7.1/ /usr/local/ant
Step 3. Export Variables for Ant and Java
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip
Also export these variables in /etc/bashrc to become available for every user login or for any terminal opens.
echo ‘export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant’ >> /etc/bashrc echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java’ >> /etc/bashrc echo ‘export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin’ >> /etc/bashrc echo ‘export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip’ >> /etc/bashrc
Step 4. Download and Install RED5 Server
Here the latest version available for RED5 is 0.7 on site but download from google code using svn as the tarball of 0.7 on site is missing some of the files.
cd /usr/src svn checkout http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk/ red5 mv red5 /usr/local/ cd /usr/local/red5 ant prepare ant dist
you will see a ton of lines, but you should get at last
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
that’s mean its install and now copy the conf directory from dist/ and test the red5 installation.
cp -r dist/conf . ./red5.sh
If it shows Installer service created in the last then everything is fine here, press ctrl+c and move to next step to create init script.
Step 5. Init Script
Now we will create init script for red5 to start, stop and restart easily.
vi /etc/init.d/red5
The init script code is below.
#!/bin/sh
# For RedHat and cousins:
# chkconfig: 2345 85 85
# description: Red5 flash streaming server
# processname: red5
PROG=red5
RED5_HOME=/usr/local/red5
DAEMON=$RED5_HOME/$PROG.sh
PIDFILE=/var/run/$PROG.pid
# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/red5 ] && . /etc/sysconfig/red5
RETVAL=0
case “$1″ in
start)
echo -n $”Starting $PROG: ”
cd $RED5_HOME
$DAEMON >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo $! > $PIDFILE
touch /var/lock/subsys/$PROG
fi
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success $”$PROG startup” || failure $”$PROG startup”
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n $”Shutting down $PROG: ”
killproc -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$PROG
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status $PROG -p $PIDFILE
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}”
RETVAL=1
esac
exit $RETVAL
Now start the service
/etc/init.d/red5 start
check status
/etc/init.d/red5 status red5 (pid XXXXX) is running…
again you can do stop, restart.
Step 6. Test
Now test the RED5 installation by opening following URL in browser
http://yourip:5080/
You will see Red5 test page.
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Hey MAte
I followed the steps but when i am typing ant prepare and ant dist , its saying command not found.
Kindly help me ASAP if possible,
Regards,
Anand
Please recheck whether you have followed step 2 & 3 properly.
Is it possible to install it without root access ?
Awesome – thanks
Had to replace some quotes ” in the init script but other that than brilliant.
Hi, great tutorial!
Everything went without a lot of hickups until I got to the init script. When I run it, I get the following error:
[root@centos red5]# /etc/init.d/red5 start
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: stop: command not found
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: restart: command not found
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: status}”: command not found
I’m not familiar with bash/linux at all, so I can’t really figure out what I did wrong. I just copied the script you gave into the vi editos and saved it. I verified if it was saved and it is.
I had to chmod 755 it before I could run it though. But this is where i’m stuck right now.
Any piece of advice?
Thanks again, you’re really helping me out
Same problem here:
[root@centos red5]# /etc/init.d/red5 start
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: stop: command not found
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: restart: command not found
/etc/init.d/red5: line 43: status}”: command not found
Please help!
Problem is most likely with the case statement:
make sure it read: case \"$1\" in
(ie, case doublequote$1doublequote
I had an issue where it put a . instead of the doublequote and was causing problems when copying and pasting from the website
If you have a firewall turned on, make sure you add port 5080 to your firewall (do a search for adding a port to your firewall).
If you don’t this, http://yourip:5080/ will not work.
You will need to add port 1935 for RTMP
Ive gotten through everything except when I try to start the server with \"/etc/init.d/red5 start\" either permission is denied or command is not found. Also i get these -bash: commands not found when i login through ssh.
If anyone can help me that would be super sweet.
What I see in the terminal:
Last login: Wed Feb 3 23:48:15 2010 from c-24-9-203-1.hsd1.co.comcast.net
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
[root@BeheardCentOS2 ~]# /etc/init.d/red5 start
-bash: /etc/init.d/red5: Permission denied
[root@BeheardCentOS2 ~]# sudo /etc/init.d/red5 start
sudo: /etc/init.d/red5: command not found
Hi Paul wood,
you might want to try this solutions, I google searched it for you
http://blog.mohdazam.com/lastlogin-information-bash-error
Your problem might be solved, last time a friend of mines also experiencing this problem, and use that solutions..it is worked!
I am getting this error when starting the server:
[root@cl-t029-292cl ~]# /etc/init.d/red5 start
-bash: /etc/init.d/red5: Permission denied
I looked at TheObserver’s solution but that doesn’t work.
Anyone can help.
I figured it out.
Had to change the permission of the /etc/init.d/red5 file to 755.
i am getting svn command not found
Those of you getting the errors, open:
/etc/init.d/red5
with a text editor and replace all of the quotes then, do:
/etc/init.d/red5 start
nithin
yum install subversion
A good RED5 installation tutorial, would like to share
http://askmeflash.com/tutorial/7/red5-installation-and-setup-how-to
Thanks for tutor …
I’am using CentOS 5.4
and my red5 server is running quit well
But I have big trouble to integrating php in red5 server.
I want to running live streaming php standalone version from videowhisper, but it’s not working yet.
Can you give me some guidance, to make php working on red5?
Thanks for advance
Well if you people are getting problem in starting Red5 by above method.Go to /opt/red5/dist/red5.sh
and then execute this script and not the script that comes
in /opt/red5/red5.sh
hey for the bash errors ;
copy paste the init script as is then
replace the line
case “$1? in
with
case “$1″ in
this worked for
and thanks a lot
Saifur Rahman
As a note, this tutorial doesn’t quite work with Red5 version 0.9. The latest version does not come with a Tomcat server built-in, so you have to do that yourself. You also need to edit the config file to make Red5 bind to the correct IP address, which is not mentioned in this guide.
So, here are some more instructions to bring this tutorial up to date:
* Edit red5/conf/red5.properties file, and anywhere you see the IP 0.0.0.0 replace it with your server’s actual IP address.
– You can find this IP by executing this command: /sbin/ifconfig eth0| grep ‘inet addr:’ and use the IP address listed directly after inet addr:
* Create directory red5/plugins
* Go to http://www.red5.org/wiki/AppServer/JEEContainerPlugins, get pre-compiled Tomcat JAR
* Look inside of Tomcat JAR, extract the jee-container.xml file, replace red5/conf/jee-container.xml file with that.
* Go to http://code.google.com/p/red5/source/browse/#svn/repository/tomcat, save the latest version of each file there to red5/plugins
– As of today (September 13, 2010), this includes 6.0.26 of Catalina and Jasper and Tomcat-Coyote, and 6.0.20 of Tomcat-dbcp, Tomcat-juli, and Tomcat-juli-adapters
I have just buy a VPS , but I am trying to install but I can not. Who help me ?
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how to save the script ?