How to install Red5 Server with Tomcat

• Download Java from http://www.sun.com
• Install java into a folder such as /opt/red5/jdk-1.6.0
• Set JAVA_HOME point to that folder

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/red5/jdk-1.6.0

• Download Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/
• Extract Tomcat into a folder such as /opt/red5/

cd /opt/red5
wget http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/apache/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz
tar -xf apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz

• Download Red5 package from http://osflash.org/red5
• The package that we should download is the WAR package http://www.red5.fr/release/0.7.0/war/Red5War_0.7.0.zip
• Extract the package into a folder such as /opt/red5/

cd /opt/red5
wget http://www.red5.fr/release/0.7.0/war/Red5War_0.7.0.zip
tar -xf Red5War_0.7.0.zip

• The 3 WARs file will be extracted
  • ROOT.war: the main Red5 application
  • admin.war: the Red5 admin page
  • echo.war: the echo sample application
• Move 3 WARs into tomcat/webapps folder

cd /opt/red5
mv ROOT.war admin.war echo.war apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps

• Remove the default ROOT application of Tomcat

cd /opt/red5/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/webapps
rm -rf ROOT

• Create a start-server.sh file for easy to startup with following content

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/red5/jdk-1.6.0
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/red5/apache-tomcat-6.0.18
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
cd $CATALINA_HOME
./bin/startup.sh

• Start Tomcat with start-server.sh

cd /opt/red5
./start-server.sh

• Open the browser and browse to the following URL http://[ip]:8080/
• The Red5 welcome page will be displayed
• You can test the RTMP broadcast via web at http://[ip]:8080/demos/ofla_demo.html or via client application such as VideoLAN rtmp://[ip]/oflaDemo/DarkKnight.flv
• You might want to create the stop-server.sh to stop Tomcat with following contents

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/red5/jdk-1.6.0
export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/red5/apache-tomcat-6.0.18
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
cd $CATALINA_HOME
./bin/shutdown.sh