How to run Red 5 on a shared IIS server on port 80
December 06, 2007
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Setting up Red5 on a box which also contains a web server can be a challenge if you are restricted to using specific ports because of a firewall. Here is how we set up Red5 on a Windows 2003 server which also contains a production IIS server.

Our firewall only allows traffic on ports 80 and 443. This is non-negotiable, so we needed to work around the requirement.

The folks - in particular Walter Tak - on the Red5 mailing list pointed me in the right direction: Make another IP (or two) for Red 5 to run under.

IIS was already using ports 80 and 443, so the system administrator made two additional IPs for Red5 to use, one for rtmp and one for http. He then changed the settings in the Default Website Properties in IIS Manager: In Web Site Identification: IP Address, instead of (All Unassigned), he selected the single IP which we wanted IIS to listen on. We did not want IIS to interfere with port 80 on the IPs used by Red5.


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Posted by ellen at December 06, 2007 09:17 AM


However, even after this change Red5 still would not start up. The error in the logs was "java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind"

After a little more research we found this article:

Running Flashcom Server alongside IIS
by Stefan Richter
http://www.flashcomguru.com/tutorials/fcs_iis.cfm (backup version, PDF)

The article explains that on IIS 6 you must use a tool called httpcfg.exe to disable socket pooling. Otherwise, IIS will continue to grab port 80 on all IPs available, no matter what you set in IIS Manager.

The link to Microsoft's explanation of this in the Stefan Richter article is no longer good. Here is the correct link:

Setting metabase property DisableSocketPooling has no effect

Backup PDF version: Setting metabase property DisableSocketPooling has no effect.pdf

The red5.properties file for the server looks like this:

# HTTP
http.host=155.125.50.38
http.port=80
https.port=8443
# RTMP
rtmp.host=155.125.50.48
rtmp.port=1935
rtmp.event_threads_core=16
rtmp.event_threads_max=64
# event threads queue: -1 unbounded, 0 direct (no queue), n bounded queue
rtmp.event_threads_queue=0 
rtmp.event_threads_keepalive=60
rtmp.send_buffer_size=271360
rtmp.receive_buffer_size=65536
rtmp.ping_interval=5000
rtmp.max_inactivity=60000
rtmp.tcp_nodelay=true
# RTMPT
#rtmpt.host=155.125.50.48 
rtmpt.host=red501.myserver.com
rtmpt.port=80
rtmpt.ping_interval=5000
rtmpt.max_inactivity=60000
# MRTMP
mrtmp.host=155.125.50.48
mrtmp.port=9035
mrtmp.event_threads_core=4
mrtmp.event_threads_max=32
# event threads queue: -1 unbounded, 0 direct (no queue), n bounded queue
mrtmp.event_threads_queue=0
mrtmp.event_threads_keepalive=60
mrtmp.send_buffer_size=271360
mrtmp.receive_buffer_size=65536
mrtmp.ping_interval=5000
mrtmp.max_inactivity=60000
mrtmp.tcp_nodelay=true
# Debug proxy (needs to be activated in red5-core.xml)
proxy.source_host=127.0.0.1
proxy.source_port=1936
proxy.destination_host=127.0.0.1
proxy.destination_port=1935



After this was done, Red5 did start up, but I started getting "no application scope found" errors in the logs, and then it would shut down after a few moments. After a little experimentation I realized that I must have made some fatal change to one of the configuration files while we were troubleshooting, so I simply reinstalled Red5. Then it started up immediately and stayed up.

The last step was to register the new IPs with our firewall, and now it works perfectly!


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