Installing Red5 Server On Linux (CentOS)

Red5 Installation Instructions
 
NONE OF THIS WILL WORK WITHOUT ANT, So first install ANT 1.8.0 (See my previous post...)
 
STEP 1
 
Once ANT is installed we can download and install the Red5 server:
I needed Red5 version 0.9.RC1 specifically in order to have some particular things work properly, you may want to check out the trunk rather than this older tag, just adjust your subversion URL accordingly.

cd /usr/src
  svn checkout http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_9rc1/ red5
  mv red5 /usr/local/
  cd /usr/local/red5
  ant prepare
  ant dist

Once the compile is finished you should see:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL


STEP 2
 
Now we need to set up the configuration directory: copy the conf directory from dist:

cp -r dist/conf .
  ./red5.sh

STEP 3
 
If everything starts up nicely, then we can build an init script for Red5:

UPDATE: No matter what I seem to try, blogger is screwing up my line endings and character encoding. So here is a link to the file itself, if you are wanting to just directly copy and paste a working init script, use this file:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ewlwnmywizd/red5

vi /etc/init.d/red5

Copy this text in:

#!/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 (or, my preference) service red5 start

check status

/etc/init.d/red5 status (or, my preference) service red5 status

red5 (pid  XXXXX) is running…

STEP 4
 
Now test the RED5 installation by opening following URL in browser
http://yourip:5080/