Howto Install RED5 Flash Media Server in Fedora 11, Centos 5.4, Redhat

Red5 is an Open Source Flash Media Server written in Java that supports:

* Streaming Audio/Video (FLV and MP3)
* Recording Client Streams (FLV only)
* Shared Objects
* Live Stream Publishing
* Remoting (AMF)

This is a reverse engineered open source project which aims to produce a feature-complete implementation written in Java. It os one of the Full implementation RTMP servers other than:

Adobe Flash Media Server,
Onlinelib VCS Video Communication Server
Wowza Media Server
WebORB Integration Server
haXeVideo

In this tutorial we'll learn howto installRED5 on Centos 5.4,Fedora, Redhat and other Linux Distribution, There are many ways to achieve this but this is how i installed RED5 Media Server on Fedora 11.

Red5 Requires Java Development Kit (JDK) to run so you have to install Java onto the system,You can acheive this in 2 ways
1. Either Use Yellow DOG Updater

# yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

OR

Download JDK and Compile

cd /usr/java 
IF /usr/java cannot be found
mkdir /usr/java
Go to the Link and Download http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp and Download jdk-6u19-linux-i586.bin

mv /home/ashwin/Download/jdk-6u19-linux-i586.bin /usr/java/

chmod +x jdk-6u19-linux-i586.bin
./jdk-6u19-linux-i586.bin

You will see 
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.6"
export JAVA_HOME
echo $JAVA_HOME

Great Now you have installed JAVA now proceed

Another Important requirement is ANT (It is a Apache Project) which we require to compile the RED5 Code, Good News is you dont need to compile ANT as it is already in binary format Just extract and install it in /usr/java

#cd /home/ashwin/
#w.get http://mirrors.kahuki.com/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.bz2
#tar -jxf apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.bz2
#mv apache-ant-1.8.0 /usr/local/ant

Now we need to Export the JAVA and ANT Environment Variables which would help us in installing and proper running if RED5 Server

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

vi /etc/bashrc

# ALSO Put the Above Here
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

Now download the latest RED5 CODE from the site to build

cd /home/ashwin/
svn checkout http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk/ red5
mv red5 /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/red5
ant prepare
ant dist

You would you screen scrolling and you are not able to understand anything "CHILL" All is well and RED5 Media Server is getting compiled, AT the END you would SEE

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

If you see this you have made it you have done 95% of the work. Now copy the conf directory from dist/ and test the red5 installation.

cp -r dist/conf .
./red5.sh

STARTING, STOPPING,RESTARTING RED5 Media Server
I have created a Init Script Click Here

INIT Script to Start,STOP, RESTART RED5 Media Server

Start RED5

/etc/init.d/red5 start

TESTING RED5

Go TO your Browser Address Bar and Type

http://your.ip.address:5080

Check Out the Demos
http://your.ip.address:5080/demos/

ISSUE

When you run ./red5.sh, it will show you Installer service created. Thats mean everything runs fine and red5 server is up. But if you went to port_tester.swf using demos above or your application shows connections FAILS, this is an issue of RTMPT and RTMPTS. You can see it by running

/usr/local/red5/red5.sh

output trancated

[INFO] [main] org.red5.server.tomcat.TomcatLoader – RTMPT server bean was not found
[INFO] [main] org.red5.server.tomcat.TomcatLoader – RTMPS server bean was not found

output truncated

If you see this you have to uncomment the RTMPT and RTMPTS TomcatLoader in/usr/local/red5/conf/red5-core.xml

vi /usr/local/red5/conf/red5-core.xml

Search for a lines



Remove the from end of

Same goes for RTMPS



Remove the from end of



Restart the red5 services and connection fails problem will be fixed.