Red5 installation

Red5 installation

Some time you may get the problem of JAVA_HOME enviroment variable not available or not locate properly to java in the server .... So this article may help you out :)


Login to your account and open .bash_profile file

$ vi ~/.bash_profile

set the following enviroment variable in .bash_profile


export ANT_HOME=/opt/ant
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

Save and close the file. Just logout and login back to see new changes:

$ echo $ANT_HOME
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
$ echo $PATH
$ echo $CLASSPATH


Tip: Use the following command to find out exact path to which java executable under UNIX / Linux:

$ which java



You have to use nohup to keep you red5 process active when you lose your
terminal.
Try this command :

nohup sh red5.sh &