Install(the easy way) on Ubuntu 10.04:

1)Install all the libraries listed above. updatedb is deprecated, but that is fine.

2)Download the current .tar file

3)Extract into a directory.(I used my home directory)

4) cd red5directory

5) sh red5.sh

6) localhost:5080

I used this: svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_9_1 red5

and

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20

but I am stilling getting this

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/red5/server/Bootstrap
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.red5.server.Bootstrap
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: org.red5.server.Bootstrap. Program will exit.

I also tried replaced boot.jar file with the one in the 0.9.1 zip file but still this same error came up.

@reboot cd /usr/local/red5/ ; ./red5.sh & >/dev/null 2>&1

Just replace the cd /path/to/your/path

Thanks, Webmaster at LinuxTuts ( http://www.linuxtuts.net )

It was firewall. I disabled Shorewall firewall and everything is up and running.

Good luck guys

It looks like I have solved my problem.

In this point of tutorial:

svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk red5

I used url of stable version of red5 instead of the newest:

svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/tags/0_9_1 red5

When I run: /usr/share/red5/red5.sh

It says something about installer creation complete and I use Ctrl+C to get back to command line.

Then I am checking ports with: netstat -ant
and ports 1935 and 5080 have “LISTEN” on the right.

Next I am trying to connect to port 5080 with telnet: telnet localhost 5080
Everything is ok.

But here comes another problem.
When I am going in my browser to http://my-ip:5080/ it can’t connect at all.
It works ok without :5080 so http://my-ip/

I am using router so I guess I have to forward some ports for RED5 to work properly.

So I forwarded 4 ports to local ip of my server:

RTMP: 1935
RTMPT: 8088
HTTP servlet engine port: 5080
Debug proxy port: 1936

And I still can’t connect with http://my-ip:5080/ Help

redsky@abserver:~$ /usr/share/red5/red5.sh
Running on Linux
Starting Red5
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/red5/sertrap
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.red5.server.Bootstrap
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320
Could not find the main class: org.red5.server.Bootstrap. Program will exit.

I followed tutorial on this site, then tried to replace my boot.jar with boot.jar from newest release from: http://code.google.com/p/red5/
But I don’t know what version is installed on my server so I don’t know which boot.jar file should I use.

If someone knows the solution to my problem, please help me

Best regards