Building and installing a Red5 server on a Linux box. Adding a new user First we create a new user for the Red5 service.
$ adduser red5
and deactivate the interactive shell.
red5:x:10xy:10xy:,,,:/home/red5:/bin/false
Installing a Red5 server on a Linux server. Building a Red5 installer To get a grip on Red5 we import the source into an IDE and build the server locally using the current stable release (as of May 2010 this is version 0.9.1).
$ svn checkout http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_9_1
$ mv 0_9_1 red5-server-0.9.1
$ ln -s red5-server-0.9.1 red5-server-0.9.x
Look into the interior of the server, adapt code as needed.
$ cd red5-server-0.9.x
$ ant dist
Create a
$ ant dist-installer
Or download the latest release from http://code.google.com/p/red5/ if the binary distribution is all you need.
Add a Red5 server startup script
Based on the /etc/init.d/skeleton a startup script for the installation above could look like this:
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: red5-server
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Red5 server script
# Description: Based on skeleton
### END INIT INFO
Starting the Red5 server manually
With the red5-server startup script the Red5 server should start with uid=red5.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/red5-server start
Point your web browser to http://localhost:5080/ to verify the basic installation:
Making Red5 script run at boot time
$ update-rc.d red5-server defaults