Hi to all of the members of this helpful community.
I have lot of problems installing red5 video server, on my VPS.
First things first, here is the specs of my VPS:
OS: CENTOS 5.4 i686 virtuozzo on server
Administration: cPanel 11.25.0-S43473 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
Mysql: 5.0.89-community
PHP: 5.2.10
Apache 2.2.11

Saying that, I will try to explain my problem as detailed as possible:
I try to install red5 video server, following the tutorials and guides to do that, but there are some prerequisites to fulfill before installing the program:
Prerequisite No.1.: Having the latest version of Apache ANT.
Prerequisite No.2: Having the latest Java devel version.

The server already got the Apache ANT 1.6, but red5 asks for 1.8
The server already got java 1.5 but red5 asks for 1.6

So, I try to update to ANT 1.8 and Java 1.6, but refuses to update, so I made a clean installation of both, doing this:

This guide is from http://hosting-marketers.com/news/20...on-centos-5-4/

JAVA:
# yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

Then I install Apache ANT doing this:
# cd /usr/src
# wget http://opensource.become.com/apache/...8.0-bin.tar.gz
# tar zxvf apache-ant-1.8.0-bin.tar.gz
# mv apache-ant-1.8.0 /usr/local/ant

Then I export the variables, according to the guide:
# export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
# export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin
# export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip

Also export these variables in /etc/bashrc to become available for every user login or for any terminal opens.

# echo ‘export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant’ >> /etc/bashrc
# echo ‘export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java’ >> /etc/bashrc
# echo ‘export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ant/bin’ >> /etc/bashrc
# echo ‘export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip’ >> /etc/bashrc

The strange thing is that after that, when I connect via SHELL, to the VPS, I get an error message, 5 times:
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found
-bash: ‘export: command not found

Then, when I execute the command: ant -version to find out which version is running, I get more errors:
root@server [~]# ant -version
/usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Could not find xml-commons-apis Java extension for this JVM
/usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Some specified jars were not found
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/java/jre1.6.0_13/lib/tools.jar
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on January 6 2007
As you can see, I installed the 1.8 version, but I have the 1.6.5.

Also, the VPS is not resolving the domains properly, prior to this, the domains were fine, but after that, I need to do a gracefull reboot, and then restart the named service.

So, here are the questions:
1.- How can I undo all the things I did, I mean, is it a way to uninstall the APACHE ANT 1.6.5 and then the 1.8 and Java 1.6, and then start from the beginning?
2.- After uninstalling these 3 apps, I need to reinstall it properly, and make red5 work on the server, so, how can I do it safely?

A mistake I did, was to not to backup the server prior to make the changes, and is a production VPS on a shared server with the vpsnext.com hosting provider.

I speak with the technical support, and they are not be able to help me, because is an unmanaged server.

One more strange thing is that, I already install red5, with ANT and JAVA in another server, with the same specs of this VPS, from another hosting provider, and I had no problems at all.

Hope you can help me to revert all this, because, I'm not a newbie in this, but I have limited knowledge on the things I can do in a Linux environment.

Thanks

You've used wrong quotes in the above commands. Should have use single or double quotes and not those.
You can edit /etc/bashrc and remove them.
Then run
or restart the server.

Regards

Hi bathory, I already change that quotes mistake.
I also uninstall the previous version of APACHE ANT, and install the new one:
And also get the right java version:
And also, installed the red5 video server.
Now, I have another problem with ANT, some dependencies are missing:
I already build red5 with APACHE ANT:
and then:
But after that, when I try to start red5, with:
And tested on port 5080, it does not appear anything at all.

So, are you well versed on the red5 issues, and help me out, pls, or anyone else who knows this red5 video server implementation, all the help is very welcome.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm not familiar with Red5m but after reading the howto you've followed, it looks like you missed the step to copy the configuration directory:
Regards

Hi again bathory, thanks for your interest in helping me.
I already did what I missed from the guide, but with an error message:
What is strange to me, is that according to the guide, it says:
Note the red note I indicated it says from dist/, but it does not says to where. (destination file or folder?)
I posted a comment on the author's guide site, but still no answer.

Thanks again for you kindly help

Hi carlmx,

According to the howto you've followed:
means to copy the subdir conf in the currect directory (note the last dot). I guess this is done by the author so he can run ./red5.sh just for testing purposes.
You can try to run:
and see if it works.

Regards

Hi,

Find best and easy way to install red5.

http://pankajdangi.com/2010/01/steps...red5-on-linux/

Thanks
Pankaj