Installation on MacOS

Install JDK

Linux 32-bit installation instructions

Linux 64-bit installation instructions

Create directory for Red5

sudo mkdir -p ~/Documents/tools/red5-server

Set environment variable for Red5

cd ~/
vi .bash_profile

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`  <-- ` is not a Apostrophe. It's a Grave.
export RED5_HOME=~/Documents/tools/red5-server
PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$RED5_HOME:$PATH

source .bash_profile

Get the latest tarball for Red5

• Browse to Red5 Server Releases
• Scroll to "Latest Release"
• Download the tar.gz
• Copy to RED5_HOME
• Expand the tarball

red5-server v1.0.9-RELEASE tar

red5-server v1.0.9-RELEASE zip

Start the server

cd /usr/share/red5
./red5.sh start

Stop the server

cd /usr/share/red5
./red5.sh start

Trouble shotting "/usr/bin/jsvc: No such file or directory"

If you meet an error message like this.

~Documents/tools/red5-server/red5: line 75: /usr/bin/jsvc: No such file or directory

You must install jsvc

brew install jsvc

If you don't have Homebrew yet. Please visit Homebrew site and install Homebrew.

and then fix jsvc path in red5 file

vi red5

Comment and add new command like this.

# The path to Jsvc
#EXEC="/usr/bin/jsvc"
EXEC="$which jsvc"

Trouble shooting "Cannot locate Java Home"

Fix java home path in red5 file.

vi red5

# The path to the folder containing the java runtime
# JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"