Red5 server installation on Redhat CentOs Linux

Rahul — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:52:25 +0000

If you reach this page then you probably cannot afford Adobe FMS but Red5 open source flash server is here to save your day. I have been working with red5 since version 0.6.2 and in this post we will go through the installation of 0.8.0.
Red5 support streaming video/audio content( flv, aac and mp3), recording streams in flv and live publishing. I am doing Red5 installation on CentOs 5 machine here and instructions would be same for Redhat Enterprise

1) Installation of Java
Login to server as root and goto
cd /usr/local/src

Download jdk 6 linux rpm bin package from sun
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
File should look like this after download
jdk-6u17-linux-i586-rpm.bin

wget http://rahulsoni.in/jdk-6u7-linux-i586-rpm.bin chmod 777 jdk-6u7-linux-i586-rpm.bin ./jdk-6u17-linux-i586-rpm.bin
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete jdk installation.

once completed setup the java home path

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest

2) Installation of apache ant

cd /usr/local
download latest apache ant tar.gz from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
or
wget http://apache.mirrors.redwire.net/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz tar zxf apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz mv apache-ant-1.7.1 ant rm -Rf apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz

Export apache ant home
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant

create symbolic link
ln -s /usr/local/ant/bin/ant /usr/bin/ant

3) Red5 installation
You can download latest build Red5 from google code
http://code.google.com/p/red5/

Login to your server via SSH as root and run:
mkdir red5 wget http://www.red5.org/downloads/0_8/red5-0.8.0.tar.gz tar -C red5/ -xzf red5-0.8.0.tar.gz cd red5/ sh ./red5.sh

If everything is ok then you will see something like this:
[INFO] [Launcher:/installer] org.red5.server.service.Installer - Installer service created

Press ctrl+c to exit and run red5 server as a daemon:
./red5.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & or nohup sh red5.sh &

Red5 http service run on port 5080 and rtmp on port 1935.

First thing you can do is visit http://your_server_ip:5080 and install red5 demo apps, example apps like oflademo can be used to stream media straight out of the box.

Feel free to update here if you are struck at installation or red5 is not starting and i will be glad to assist.

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Running Linux SCP and Rsync commands in background

Rahul — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:35:31 +0000

I am using this alot these days to copy terabytes of data from one server to another which require running scp and rsync in background. This can be handy if you do not want to create password less connection between 2 machine which require setting up public/private keys.
It will send the SCP Rsync process in background once you have authenticated the session so that you don’t need to keep the terminal active while data is being moved.

Please follow these steps and i will be using SCP in the example

1) SSH into server
2) Execute the SCP command to transfer files on remote machine
For example to copy the folder named “data” i would be

scp -r data root@machine2.com:/home

It will ask you for root password of machine2.com, After authentication the process should start

3) Stop the process by using ctrl + z

4) Now run the bg command
root@localhost [~]# bg

bg will start the previous SCP process you killed in background

5) Confirm if the process is running by using jobs command
root@localhost [~]# jobs

If everything is ok kill the terminal with “exit” command and fetch a cup of cofee.

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