Installing the Red5 Server 0.9 RC1 on Mac OS X

Notes

The following instructions were written with a Mac OS X system in mind. If you are using a different system the instructions will vary slightly.

There are several web sites for Red5, which can make finding the correct location for resources confusing. In the past some of them have been offline for quite a while, and worse may still hold incorrect or conflicting information. Luckily recently the Red5 team has made progress in putting much of the Red5 related material on a single website, www.red5.org.

Unfortunately there are still several official websites floating around. It would be in everyone's best interests if they redirected those other sites to a unified location.

Prerequisites

1. Java 6, to run Red5. If you are a Mac OS X user on the Intel platform, if you have a 64bit cpu, and are running 10.5 (Leopard) or higher and are up to date, you should already have this. If you are using 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you already have Java 6.
   

Installation

1. Go over to the Red5 project page at the new location, http://www.red5.org/wiki/Releases
2. Click on the 0.9.0 RC1 link.
   
   

   

3. Ignore the platform-specific download links and just grab the ZIP file. After you click on the link, you may be prompted to download the file. Choose to save the file.
   
   
4. Locate the red5-0.9.RC1.zip file you just downloaded (probably on your Desktop or in your Downloads folder).


5. Double click on the file. Archive Utility should launch and uncompress the archive.


6. There should now be a red-0.9.RC1 folder in the same folder as the archive:
   
   
7. Move this folder to your /Applications directory
8. Congratulations! It really was that simple. If you plan on using the Red5 Plug-in for Eclipse, its best not to try to launch the server just yet and instead move on to installation of the plug-in.