How to stop, start or restart red5

Important commands for the red5:

Login to ssh and enter the following commands.

#cd /usr/local/red5 (takes you to the red5 folder)

to stop red5:
#service red5 stop
or
#./red5-shutdown.sh

the command to start red5:
#./red5.sh &

When you see this line it’s over:
[INFO] [main] org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContex t – Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationConte xt@118fa47: startup date [Thu Mar 04 17:21:07 CST 2010]; root of context

Wait 15 seconds
Then you must log off from the terminal screen
Press ctrl+A+D (if you don’t log off, after a while red5 will go down again)

Every time you put some folder on /red5-server folder/webapps/ you will need to restart the red5.

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