Let’s install the Red5 streaming application within 30mins!. You can blindly follow the below steps.

Before installing, we need to install a supported version of Java first. Please find a tutorial to install Java Install JAVA 8 on CentOS/Fedora/RHEL

After installing Java, go to “/opt”

cd /opt

Now we are ready to install Red5. You can download the latest version from here >> http://www.red5.org/downloads/

wget http://www.red5.org/downloads/red5/1_0_1/red5-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf red5-1.0.1.tar.gz
mv /opt/red5-server-1.0 /opt/red5

Let’s create an init file. For that, first, create a file called “/etc/init.d/red5” and add the script to it.

#!/bin/sh
 # Startup script for Red5 flash streaming server on RedHat/CentOS (cPanel)
 # chkconfig: 2345 95 55
 # description: Red5 Flash Streaming Server
 # processname: red5
 
 PROG=red5
 RED5_HOME=/opt/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
 # above is 0 if you copy paste from this blog and this does not work just replace o above by #zero
 
 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

Make it executable and start the service.

chmod a+x /etc/init.d/red5
/etc/init.d/red5 restart

Make it start automatically at every reboot.

chkconfig red5 on

Open your browser and call the server as follows.

http://yourIP:5080

So that’s how you install Red5.