RED5 is a streaming application which can be used to stream live broadcasting.

I done it today for a client from srilankan to for a live streaming. The steps are given below which helps anyone to install it.

First Of all install java

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

Then Install ANT



cd /root/tmp
wget http://mirrors.kahuki.com/apache/ant/bin...in.tar.bz2
tar jxvf apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.bz2
mv apache-ant-1.8.0 /usr/local/ant
Export the Variable For ANT as given below:
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

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

If SVN is not installed then Install it:

yum install perl-URI

yum install subversion

Then Install RED5

svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_8_0/ red5
mv red5 /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/red5

ant prepare
ant dist
cp -r dist/conf .

Start RED5:

./red5.sh &

EDIT init script:
vi /etc/init.d/red5

download https://.sohailriaz.com/downloads/red5.txt and copy / paste code in it. The init script code also be viewed 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…
6) Test
Now test the RED5 installation by opening following URL in browser
http://yourip:5080/
you will see red5 page like this:
and demos can be find here.
http://yourip:5080/demos/

The link http://gregoire.org/2008/10/01/red5-admin/ helps me to fix a major issue that I faced after the installation.

RED5 ADMIN

http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/installer/ (install admin)

http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/admin/register.html (add user/pass)
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/admin/
TROUBLESHOOTING
http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:5080/demos/port_tester.html
* when testing ports, use server IP not localhost

Make these ports accept connections: 1935,  1936, 5080, 8088
tomcat-dbcp.jar – only needed if the next error occurs:

javax.naming.NamingException: Could not create resource factory instance  [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:  org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory]

*if the above error occurs, place the tomcat-dbcp.jar in [red5 root]/lib and restart red5
mysql-connector-java-5.1.12-bin.jar missing

if you are unable to connect to backend services, it means that the  MySQL driver is missing, download it and place it in your /lib folder
commons-dbcp-1.4.jar missing

if you are unable to start your Red5 application (or it doesn’t even  show up in admin), download commons-dbcp-1.4.jar and place it in your  /lib folder
Red5 Admin not found Red5 0.9

After installing Red5 0.9 and trying to access SERVER_IP:5080/admin/ you will (may) encounter the following error:
HTTP Status 404 – /admin

type Status report

message /admin

description The requested resource (/admin) is not available.

Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
no problem, the admin panel was moved here: SERVER_IP:5080/demos/adminPanel.html
When logging in, use the server IP for “Server Address” and the user “admin” with the password “admin”.
If that does not work, you must register an admin user, just follow the instructions below:[/b]

*assuming that your Red5 installation path is /usr/local/red5 if it is  different (ex. /opt/red5 or /opt/red5/dist/) just change those values in  the following commands
Get the plugins:
cd /root/tmp
mkdir /usr/local/red5/plugins
wget http://red5.googlecode.com/files/AdminPlugin-1.0.zip
unzip -d /usr/local/red5/plugins AdminPlugin-1.0.zip
Get the Red5 admin register page:
mkdir /usr/local/red5/webapps/admin
wget http://red5.googlecode.com/files/admin.jsp
mv admin.jsp /usr/local/red5/webapps/admin
*restart Red5 (/etc/init.d/red5 restart)
Access Register Admin page: YOUR_IP:5080/admin/admin.jsp and register your admin user and password.
For any issues or help regarding red5 send a mail to linuxmaster007@gmail.com.