Red5/Tomcat "403 forbidden" error on a certain directory

Question

Windows 7 local environment.

My setup is this:

Red5/webapps/app/streams/vid.flv

I need to access the video. I'm trying to play the file through JW player, but it gives a not found or access denied error

I typed in the path, that the JW player displays, in a browser, which is localhost:5080/app/streams/vid.flv and it gives me a http 403 error.

How can I fix this? Thanks in advance.

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More information:

I can go to http://localhost:5080/webapp/ And see the directory listing, which has streams and temp in it.

I can go into temp, and get another directory listing.

I can't, however, go into streams, because when I try, it gives me a 403

The directory listing also gives me the Tomcat version information, which isApache Tomcat/6.0.26

Answer 1

So far that I know Red5 doesn't support http streaming. As you are using JW Player you can play it using rtmp protocol

Folow this tutorial to setup the JW Player to play the video using rtmp.

Update for "403 forbidden"

By default the web.xml inside the red5 app is configured to forbid the access to the streams folder. Remove the piece of code below to access it:

<security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Forbidden</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/streams/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <auth-constraint/>
    </security-constraint>  

But remember, by accessing the .flv file using the direct url path it will download the file but wont stream it.