How To: Install Red5 [Hosting Red5]

[HostV Admin]

Installing Basic Requirements

1. JDK

The latest version of JDK at the time of this tutorial was JDK 1.6

Download the latest jpackage-utils RPM from http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1...ric/free/RPMS/ and install

wget http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1...jpp.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh jpackage-utils-1.7.4-2jpp.noarch.rpm

Download the latest version of JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Download the rpm.bin file)
At the time of this tutorial it was JDK 1.6 update 4

Make the downloaded bin file executable

chmod +x jdk-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Run the installer and accept the license agreement. It will extract the file jdk-6u1-linux-i586.rpm

./jdk-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Install the rpm jdk-6u1-linux-i586.rpm

rpm -Uvh jdk-6u1-linux-i586.rpm

If evrything went fine, java -version will output the java version number.

java -version

2. Apache ant

Download the latest version of apache ant from http://apache.mirror.facebook.com/ant/binaries

wget http://apache.mirror.facebook.com/an...7.0-bin.tar.gz

Extract the zip file

tar -xzvf apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.tar.gz

All the contents will be extracted to the folder apache-ant-1.7.0
Rename and Move the folder to the installation folder (/usr/local/ant would just be fine.)

mv apache-ant-1.7.0 /usr/local/ant

Add the following lines to the end of /etc/profile

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin
ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant

A successfull Ant installation can be confirmed by running

ant -v

Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

3. Subversion

Subversion installation is necessary only if you are want to install the latest development version of Red5 from the trunk. If you are installing a stable version of Red5, then you can skip this step.

Install the latest version of subversion using yum,

yum -y install subversion

('-y doesn't ask for confirmation')

If yum reports 'nothing to do' then,


a. Open /etc/yum.conf and check whether there is a line starting with 'exclude='
If yes, then comment out the kine by adding a # before the line.
If not, then follow the the following step

b. Add the rpmforge repo by downloading and installing,

wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rpmfo...l4.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

Now run ,

yum -y install subversion

Do remember to uncomment the 'exclude=' line in /etc/yum.conf if you commented it as it could prove as an important security measure.



RED 5 Installation

svn co http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/red5/java/server/trunk/ red5-trunk

This command will checkout the red5 trunk into the red5-trunk directory.
Now you are ready to build the server.

cd red5-trunk
ant ivyclear dist

This will clear the ivy configs and build the server. Once that is finished We should first try and run the server from the red5-trunk/dist directory to make sure it is working.

cd dist
chmod 755 red5.sh
screen
sh red5.sh

At this point the server should start. You can hit Ctr+ C to stop it. If you get this far without errors you should be good to go. However, it is good to keep red5 in /usr/local/red5 so do the following.

mkdir /usr/local/red5
cp -R dist/* /usr/local/red5

Now you can navigate to /usr/local/red5 and start the server in the same way as above. If there are no errors you should now have the latest version of red5 installed and working fine.

screen
sh red5.sh

Note : Use screen to start red5 because when you close out your ssh session red5 will shut down unless it is running as a
daemon process.

To install a stable release of Red 5 , the process is very similar. See below for the steps for installing a stable Red5 version. The latest release version is 0.6.3

wget http://dl.fancycode.com/red5/0.6.3/s...5-0.6.3.tar.gz
tar -xzvf red5-0.6.3.tar.gz
mv red5-0.6.3 /usr/local/red5
cd /usr/local/red5
chmod 755 red5.sh red5-shutdown.sh red5_debug.sh
screen
sh red5.sh

[mpeetsma]

Boy was this helpful

[Guthix]

yeah its not exactly a easy guide to follow as its all in technobabble

[HostV Admin]

The post has been edited and I hope its easy now..

[iheim]

If I want to compile here

/ Opt / ant / bin / ant build

I always get this error message

R233: ~ # / opt / ant / bin / ant build
Build File: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
Target "build" does not exist in the project "Red5.

What's wrong?

[HostV Harry]

Hi,

There is another thread for automated red5 installation.

Please clarify your need. i guess you want the ant location to be at
/opt/ant, then please move ant to the repective folder,

thats
mv apache-ant-1.7.0 /opt/ant instead of mv apache-ant-1.7.0 /usr/local/ant

Sorry if I have misunderstood your requirement.You can reply here or just drop us a line at our helpdesk and we can do it for you.

Thank you

[HostV Harry]

Hi,

There is an automated red5 installation how to ,

How To: Automated Red5 Installation

[yilmaz]

red5_install did not work either.
we tried almost all possible ways, none of them worked.
It always breaks somewhere in the middle way.

Red5 = mess


Does anyone know any better alternative to red5?
thanks

[HostV Jeff]

Hi yilmaz,

Please PM me your sevrer details or please submit a ticket on this. We will setup this for you.

[unhappy@yourswinging.com]

We have a fully working version of red on our server. Not the custom version HostV use. the red5 now runs perfect. Just go to the red5 website and use there install instructions.
If you have no joy get hostv to sort it as it clearly states red5 is included in VPS and dedicated packages.