Using PHP with Red5

The default installation of Red5 doesn't include support for PHP. And since Red5 is ran by Tomcat, this means we need Tomcat to handle PHP.

I found a tutorial that requires you to recompile Tomcat with PHP-handling. Tedious task for a simple need of enabling PHP. Good thing, there's Quercus -- a 100% Java implementation of PHP 5. This means that it can be used with Tomcat.

What I did was, download Quercus 4.0.3 binary, then extracted file to a temporary location.

Now move the following files from the Quercus' temporary location,

• /WEB-INF/lib/inject-16.jar
• /WEB-INF/lib/javamail-141.jar
• /WEB-INF/lib/resin.jar

to your Red5 installation's /webapps/root/WEB-INF/lib/{here}. Create the /lib directory on Red5's /root/WEB-INF if needed.

Now, here's the part where you need to be cautious.

From Red5's /webapps/root/WEB-INF/ location, then open web.xml.

Add the following before the </web-app> tag.
<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.caucho.quercus.servlet.QuercusServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Quercus Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.php</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>index.php</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>


Now, try creating a helloworld.php to test Quercus.

Make sure to restart your Red5.