How to Setup Red5 Media Server on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5

    RahulBy 2 Mins ReadUpdated:

    Red5 Media Server is a powerful media streaming server worked on RTMP protocal. Red5 is an open and extensible platform, which can be used in Video Conferencing or Network gaming.

    biglogo-red5

    This article will help you to install Red5 media server on CentOS and RHEL Systems.

    Step 1 – Install Java

    You may skip this steps if you have already installed java on your system else use below link to install latest java version.

    Install Java 8 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5

    Also, make sure the set JAVA_HOME environment variable on your system. You can set the JAVA_HOME using the command. Change the directory path for your installed Java version

    echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_151' >> /etc/bashrc
source /etc/bashrc
    Step 2 – Download and Extract Red5

    Use this link to find latest version of Red5 or use following commands to download red5 1.0.1. Also extract them.

    cd /opt/
wget https://github.com/Red5/red5-server/releases/download/v1.0.9-RELEASE/red5-server-1.0.9-RELEASE.tar.gz
tar xzf red5-server-1.0.9-RELEASE.tar.gz
    Step 3 – Start Red5 Server

    After extracting downloaded archive, lets start Red5 using shell script red5.sh available in directory.

    cd /opt/red5-server/
./red5.sh &
    Step 4 – Access Red5 Web Interface

    Red5 demo pages and application can be accessed on port 5080 like http://fqdn:5080/

    URL:   http://192.168.1.105:5080

    red5-start-page

    Step 5 – Install Demo Apps

    Open the following URL in your web browser to get demo apps install screen. Change IP to your system IP or fqdn.

    http://192.168.1.105:5080/installer/

    red5-demos-install

    Step 6 – Access Demo Apps in Red5

    Open the following URL in your web browser to get access demo apps page. Change IP to your system IP or fqdn.

    http://192.168.1.105:5080/demos/

    red5-demos

    References:
    http://www.red5.org/

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    16 Comments

    1. Durgesh on

      I have successfully install java and red5 now I can red5 demo page I had install but when click to connect it not connecting with red5 server when I check in chrome browser console I see this error ” POST http://localhost/fcs/ident2 net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED” let me know what I did wrong I have java 1.8.0_111 and red5 1.0.8m13 version I am running on centos vps server purchased from godaddy. let me know if you can help me

      Reply
    2. Kedar on

      Hello Rahul,
      Thank you for the guide it helped me a lot, I have installed this in CentOS 6 and setup went well,
      but, in Install Table i haven’t found any link and it is blank, can you please guide ?

      Reply
    3. arman on

      please help me

      stuck setup prgogress in:

      [WARN] [Launcher:] org.red5.server.scope.Scope – Invalid scope rejected: Scope [name=null, path=/default, type=APPLICATION, autoStart=true, creationTime=1449488305868, depth=1, enabled=true, running=false]
      [WARN] [Launcher:] org.red5.server.scope.Scope – Scope not added to parent
      [INFO] [Launcher:] org.red5.server.scope.WebScope – Webscope already registered
      [INFO] [Launcher:/installer] org.red5.server.scope.WebScope – Webscope already registered
      [INFO] [Launcher:/live] org.red5.server.scope.WebScope – Webscope already registered
      [INFO] [Launcher:/vod] org.red5.server.scope.WebScope – Webscope already registered
      [INFO] [Launcher:/installer] org.red5.server.service.Installer – Installer service created
      [INFO] [Launcher:/chat] org.red5.server.scope.WebScope – Webscope already registered

      Reply
    6. giva on

      Can you tell me why this happeded when tring to install?
      $ ant prepare
      Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
      Build failed
      instead of Bulid successfull.

      Thank you

      Reply
    7. AlbaBin on

      Rahul
      i have latest java version

      [[email protected] ~]# java -version
      java version “1.7.0_45”
      Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_45-b18)
      Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)

      Reply
    8. AlbaBin on

      PLEASE HELLP ME……….

      WHAT IS THIS

      [[email protected] red5]# ./red5.sh
      Running on Linux
      Starting Red5
      Red5 root: /usr/local/red5
      Configuation root: /usr/local/red5/conf
      Selected libraries: (10 items)
      file:/usr/local/red5/red5.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/conf/
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/tomcatplugin-1.3.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/tomcat-juli-slf4j-1.5.0.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/jasper-6.0.36.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/catalina-6.0.36.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/tomcat-coyote-6.0.36.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/jasper-el-6.0.36.jar
      file:/usr/local/red5/plugins/ecj-3.7.2.jar

      Root: /usr/local/red5
      Deploy type: bootstrap
      Logback selector: org.red5.logging.LoggingContextSelector
      Exception in thread “main” java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
      at org.red5.server.Bootstrap.bootStrap(Bootstrap.java:118)
      at org.red5.server.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:49)
      Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/bridge/SLF4JBridgeHandler
      at org.red5.server.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:51)
      … 6 more
      Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler
      at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
      … 7 more

      Reply
      • Rahul on

        Hi,
        Please confirm what version of JAVA are you using ? Also we have added one more step ( Step #4) in above tutorial, Please check that and complete it.

        Reply
    9. Sascha on

      Hello, i was Installing Red5 the way you wrote down up above.
      I iwould like to add a few things for ppl may having the same Problems like me.

      1) in this Java Installtion Link :
      http://tecadmin.net/steps-to-install-java-on-centos-5-6-or-rhel-5-6/
      The Url contains an Authorisation code like allmost the most Links for JDK so its Neccessary to download the desired version from the oracle archive (Oracla account needed)
      2) i recognized you forgett to explain (for us windows gui junkies) that you may use annoter user than root to execute and may only be able to change and install something only as root, so the sudo command is left here.
      3) After Installation and Build of red 5 a common error would be thisone when startup

      “Failed to get local hostname java.net.UnknownHostException”

      This belongs to the hostfile—
      there must be added at least one line:

      127.0.0.1 YOURPCSNAME
      infront of the 127.0.0.1…. line that allready exists.

      and btw for us windows ppl host file is editable in vim with

      vim /etc/hosts

      to save ESC (2times) than hit :wq and ENTER

      Man Your tutorial here is great but for us windows guys linux terminal sometimes iss the hell itselfs

      greetz

      Reply
    10. zxvf on

      You have a mistake in ‘echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_17′ >> /etc/bashrc’ it must be ‘echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_25′ >> /etc/bashrc’
      🙂

      Reply
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