Installing Tomcat 5.5 + OpenLaszlo + Red5 Flash Server on Windows XP

• Tomcat is a free, open source implementation of Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies.
• OpenLaszlo is a free, open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. In fact, it’s a free Adobe® Flex Server.
• Red5 is a free, open source Flash server that supports streaming and recording audio/video, live stream publishing and Flash remoting. Its commercial brother is Adobe® Flash Media Server.

Prerequisites:

Download the following files:

1. JDK 5.0 Update ‘xx’ (Java SE Development Kit (JDK)) from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads
2. Tomcat 5.5 from http://tomcat.apache.org:
• Core (windows service installer)
• Administration Web Application
3. Openlaszlo dev kit (war file) from www.openlaszlo.org
4. Red5 war file from www.osflash.org/red5

On my system, I ended up with the following files:

1. jdk-1_5_0_09-windows-i586-p.exe
2. apache-tomcat-5.5.20.exe
3. apache-tomcat-5.5.20-admin.zip
4. openlaszlo-3.3.3.war
5. red5-0.6rc1.war

Installing JDK + Tomcat 5.5:

• Perform a standard installation of JDK (next, next… finish)
• Install Apache Tomcat (use the default server port 8080 and remember your admin login credentials)
  

Test the installation in your browser: http://localhost:8080
The last thing we’ve to do is installing the Admin Web Application for easy Tomcat administration.

• Stop the Tomcat Service (from taskbar)
• Open “apache-tomcat-5.5.20-admin.zip” and drop the folders “conf” and “server” into “C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\”. (Windows warns you about already existing folders, but that’s OK. Simply ignore this)
• Start the Tomcat Service again
• Test the installation again in your browser (http://localhost:8080) by clicking on “Tomcat Manager”. Please enter your login credentials you’ve thought earlier.
  

Installing OpenLaszlo:

We’re going to install OpenLaszlo from within the Admin Web Application.

• Login (again) into the Admin Web Application and click on “Tomcat Manager”.
• Locate “WAR file to deploy” and use the buttons “Browse…” and “Deploy” to install “openlaszlo-3.3.3.war”.
• Test your OpenLaszlo installation by accessing the following URL: http://localhost:8080/openlaszlo-3.3.3/

All right!
Note: if you’re planning to use OpenLaszlo in a live environment use the servlet (openlaszlo-3.3.3-servlet.war) instead of the dev kit. The dev kit contains extras like examples and documentation.

Installing Red5:

Next, we’re going to install Red5 in the same way.

• Rename “red5-0.6rc1.war” into “red5.war” to get a nice deployment URL (context path) and deploy it.
• Test your Red5 installation by accessing the following URL: http://localhost:8080/red5
• Also try this “real” demo: http://localhost:8080/red5/flvdemo.html

Done!