Red5 – the installation of administrator’s pane
Briefly speaking, Red5 is a server of the multimedia web applications. It is undoubtedly booming right now; I have just managed to start the administrator’s panel and, since it is a complicated process, I find it reasonable to describe it here in order to remember it well.
The first step is to load the latest version of Red5 0.8RC2 from the website Xuggle . Then I install it according to instructions: I unzip and set the environment variables RED5_HOME. The next thing to do is to start the Installer application : http://localhost:5080/installer/, install the administer application and restart Red5. Thereafter, following the instructions provided on forum, I register at: http://localhost:5080/admin/register.html After registration I move to restarting Red5 again. Now I can finally log in: http://localhost:5080/demos/adminPanel.html
Using the administrator’s panel I can view the list of active applications, find the active online users or check the transfer.
I cannot get the admin panel app to work, as the registration page doesn’t seem to be there:
When I try to access
http://MYSEERVER:5080/admin/register.html , I get a TomCat error:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Red5\work\red5Engine\192.168.1.1 \admin\org\apache\jsp\WEB_002dINF\jsp\register_jsp.java (The system cannot find the path specified)
But when I try to reach the admin itself (http://MYSERVER:5080/demos/adminPanel.html), everything seems to be working… except I don’t have a valid user of course.
Any idea on what I did wrong here? I’m running the latest RED5 build (RC2).
Thanks for your help!
Since it is common knowledge no one can log on to the admin panel it just sits there supposing to stream its own demo content. Ofcourse this demo content is nowhere to be found once the war is deployed in tomcat 6. Even a webpage designed on openoffice renders more functionality than the hundreds of line of code that makes up this so called streaming server
@peter Red5 is a great product. I can log on to the admin panel and it works fine for me. For me, Red5 is the most promising streaming server and its now ready for production use.
@peter
As easy as If you don’t like it… don’t use it. Use your openoffice for web design and everybody as happy as Larry.
Panel work great for me to, thanks to you
Now how do you suggest a newbie like me to secure things a little bit ? Anyone can register a new password and bypass the panel login/password screen…
Also anyone can even launch a browser on port 5080 and install/remove demos (including admin !).
My setup is on a distant host so I can block that port nor connect from localhost… and of course I don’t have a static ip address or the firewall would do it
I parsed so many page on official and non-official red5 website but didn’t find solution…
@david
You can run red5 behind Apache HTTPD with mod_jk or ajp.
But, I suggest using Red5 as library. You can build WAR and deploy it on tomcat. http://code.google.com/p/jakubiak-red5/
you can check this quite easy tutorial to setup RED5 on windows:
http://askmeflash.com/tutorial/7/red5-installation-and-setup-how-to
I suppose that latest red5 trunk don´t provides spring-aop.jar. Required for admin interface.
So I put spring-aop-2.5.5.jar in red5/libs and everthing it´s fine.
Hello
Ich habe eine Video Chat script gekauft aber leider nur den script ohne den server. Der Server heisst Red 5 ich brauche hilfe das auf mein pc zu installieren. kann mir bitte jemand helefen danke.
It’s really quite disappointing that so many people have issues with the admin panel and that there isn’t any “real” documentation to follow. The developers should really invest more time on documentation for every version of Red5.
I have spent many hours looking for solutions to problems such as installing on a Windows XP machine or logging into the admin panel (that isn’t there?)
I’ve been working with windows servers and client machines for many years. I host websites on linux servers and I even use VP servers that I test stuff on and I use a macbook pro. If I were new to the business I would understand but even with my experience I find that I can install RED5 but it doesn’t work.
I’m no longer looking for a solution as I am going to abandon Red5 in favour of another solution.
To be honest I don’t know of a project that has wasted so much of my time!
If you want my advice, don’t bother, find a cheap FMS provider.
Great!
You are right!
First instance i compiling.
Second instance is hide all…
Bye
It’s really quite disappointing that so many people have issues with the admin panel and that there isn’t any “real” documentation to follow. The developers should really invest more time on documentation for every version of Red5.
I have spent many hours looking for solutions to problems such as installing on a Windows XP machine or logging into the admin panel (that isn’t there?)
I’ve been working with windows servers and client machines for many years. I host websites on linux servers and I even use VP servers that I test stuff on and I use a macbook pro. If I were new to the business I would understand but even with my experience I find that I can install RED5 but it doesn’t work.
I’m no longer looking for a solution as I am going to abandon Red5 in favour of another solution.
To be honest I don’t know of a project that has wasted so much of my time!
If you want my advice, don’t bother, find a cheap FMS provider.
I have been working on this project more than 2 years ago. Now I have another job. 2 years in open source is a lot of time – I do not know how it works now.