Installing Red5 3.5 on Slicehost Ubuntu 8.04.01 Hardy

Red5 is an open source flash server – an alternative to Adobe’s flash media server.

This article details how to install it. It is pulled together from here, here, here and my own experience.

Add multiverse to sources list

1 sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

1 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
      2 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse
      3 
      4 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
      5 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
      6 
      7 deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
      8 deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse

Give permissions on iptables

Do the following in your terminal on your slicehost server.

1 # become sudo user
      2 su

1 iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

1 nano /etc/iptables.test.rules

Paste the following in:

1 *filter 2 3 4 # Allows all loopback (lo0) traffic and drop all traffic to 127/8 that doesn't use lo0 5 -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT 6 -A INPUT -i ! lo -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT 7 8 9 # Accepts all established inbound connections 10 -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT 11 12 13 # Allows all outbound traffic 14 # You can modify this to only allow certain traffic 15 -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT 16 17 18 # Allows HTTP and HTTPS connections from anywhere (the normal ports for websites) 19 -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT 20 -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT 21 22 23 # Allows SSH connections 24 # 25 # THE -dport NUMBER IS THE SAME ONE YOU SET UP IN THE SSHD_CONFIG FILE 26 # NOTE!!!: BY DEFAULT THIS IS 22, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE CREATED A CUSTOM PORT. BE CAREFUL ON THIS. MINE HERE IS 22222. 27 -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport 22222 -j ACCEPT 28 29 30 # Allow ping 31 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT 32 33 34 # log iptables denied calls 35 -A INPUT -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables denied: " --log-level 7 36 37 ## ADD THE FOLLOWING FOR RED5 38 # Subversion 39 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3690 -j ACCEPT 40 41 # Red5 RTMP 42 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1935 -j ACCEPT 43 44 # Red5 RTMPT 45 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8088 -j ACCEPT 46 47 # Red5 HTTP servlet engine port 48 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5080 -j ACCEPT 49 50 # Red5 Debug proxy port 51 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1936 -j ACCEPT 52 53 COMMIT

 1 *filter

       2 

       3 

       4 #  Allows all loopback (lo0) traffic and drop all traffic to 127/8 that doesn’t use lo0

       5 -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

       6 -A INPUT -i ! lo -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT

       7 

       8 

       9 #  Accepts all established inbound connections

      10 -A INPUT -m state —state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

      11 

      12 

      13 #  Allows all outbound traffic

      14 #  You can modify this to only allow certain traffic

      15 -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

      16 

      17 

      18 # Allows HTTP and HTTPS connections from anywhere (the normal ports for websites)

      19 -A INPUT -p tcp —dport 80 -j ACCEPT

      20 -A INPUT -p tcp —dport 443 -j ACCEPT

      21 

      22 

      23 #  Allows SSH connections

      24 #

      25 # THE -dport NUMBER IS THE SAME ONE YOU SET UP IN THE SSHD_CONFIG FILE

      26 # NOTE!!!: BY DEFAULT THIS IS 22, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE CREATED A CUSTOM PORT. BE CAREFUL ON THIS. MINE HERE IS 22222.

      27 -A INPUT -p tcp -m state —state NEW —dport 22222 -j ACCEPT

      28 

      29 

      30 # Allow ping

      31 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp —icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT

      32 

      33 

      34 # log iptables denied calls

      35 -A INPUT -m limit —limit 5/min -j LOG —log-prefix "iptables denied: " —log-level 7

      36 

      37 ## ADD THE FOLLOWING FOR RED5

      38 # Subversion

      39 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp —dport 3690 -j ACCEPT

      40 

      41 # Red5 RTMP

      42 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp —dport 1935 -j ACCEPT

      43 

      44 # Red5 RTMPT

      45 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp —dport 8088 -j ACCEPT

      46 

      47 # Red5 HTTP servlet engine port

      48 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp —dport 5080 -j ACCEPT

      49 

      50 # Red5 Debug proxy port

      51 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp —dport 1936 -j ACCEPT

      52 

      53 COMMIT

1 # saves rules permanently.
      2 iptables-save > /etc/iptables.up.rules

1 nano /etc/iptables.test.rules

Dependencies

1 apt-get install subversion
      2 apt-get install java-package
      3 apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
      4 apt-get install sun-java6-jre
      5 apt-get install ant

Install Red5

 1 mkdir -p ~/svn/red5
       2 cd ~/svn/red5
       3 svn co http://red5.googlecode.com/svn/java/server/trunk red5
       4 
       5 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/
       6 export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant/
       7 
       8 cd ~/svn/red5/red5
       9 /usr/share/ant/bin/ant
      10 
      11 mkdir /usr/share/red5
      12 cp -R ~/svn/red5/red5/dist/* /usr/share/red5/
      13 
      14 cd /usr/share/red5
      15 chmod 755 red5.sh

Start playing with Red5

Browse to http://your-slice-ip:5080/ and watch the video.

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