Apache as a front end to Red5

Question

I am having a video streaming website. Which is using Open Source Streaming Server Red5. Is it possible some how to redirect the traffic for rtmp via Apache to the said Red5 server.

Answer 1

You could reference all of your videos as if they were in a directory as follows:

<a href="rtmp://www.example.com/media/...">

Then use Apache's reverse proxy feature to forward requests for anything in the media folder to the Red5 server.

ProxyPass /media http://red5server.example.com/
ProxyPassReverse /media http://red5server.example.com/

A request for rtmp://www.example.com/media/filename.flv would proxy through Apache to your internal server as http://red5server.example.com/filename.flv.

Answer 2

You can use mod proxy utility of Apache for this.Follow these steps to do so :

1.Open httpd.conf file located in the conf directory of the web server.

2.Edit the file by uncommenting them :

 LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
 LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
 LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so.

3.Add the following lines in the file-

 RewriteEngine On 
 RewriteRule ^/((open|send|idle|close|fcs)/.*)$ http://www.yourcompleteURL.com/$1 [P,L] 

Save the file and restart the service.You can test these changes by this URL - http://www.yourwebserver.com/open/1/. It should display "Bad Request.Only RTMPT supported."