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

Updated on November 10, 2017 by Rahul K.

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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.

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

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/

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/

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

Rahul K.

I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

16 Comments

Durgesh Reply to Durgesh
December 10, 2016 at 9:06 am
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
Kedar Reply to Kedar
October 26, 2016 at 12:48 pm
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 ?
arman Reply to arman
December 7, 2015 at 11:43 am
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
Sugandh Reply to Sugandh
August 13, 2015 at 10:54 am
hi, nice guide but the link to download red5 ) is not working, please provide any mirror?? thanks
- nier Reply to nier
  June 30, 2016 at 8:10 am
  https://github.com/Red5/red5-server/releases/tag/v1.0.5-RELEASE
albabin Reply to albabin
June 15, 2014 at 3:49 am
hi Rahul how to change ip on red i like with ip no with localhost
giva Reply to giva
November 17, 2013 at 12:07 pm
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
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  November 18, 2013 at 11:44 am
  Hi Giva,
  Please check if have all files checkout properly in your system. build.xml should be on main folder of red5.
  http://screencast.com/t/HWIku6TPZC7
AlbaBin Reply to AlbaBin
October 22, 2013 at 3:28 pm
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)
AlbaBin Reply to AlbaBin
October 20, 2013 at 11:05 pm
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
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  October 21, 2013 at 4:08 am
  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.
Sascha Reply to Sascha
October 7, 2013 at 9:47 pm
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
- Rahul Reply to Rahul
  October 21, 2013 at 4:10 am
  Hi Sascha,
  We have updated both of articles as per you suggestion.
  Thanks a lot.
zxvf Reply to zxvf
August 25, 2013 at 10:43 am
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’
🙂
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