Runtime Errors

Red5 won't start

If you get this error message when attempting to start Red5:

Red5 server jar was found
URL list: [file:/opt/red5/red5-server.jar]
Bootstrap exception: String index out of range: -1
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
	at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1875)
	at org.red5.classloading.ClassLoaderBuilder.scrubURLList(ClassLoaderBuilder.java:448)
	at org.red5.classloading.ClassLoaderBuilder.build(ClassLoaderBuilder.java:181)
	at org.red5.classloading.ClassLoaderBuilder.build(ClassLoaderBuilder.java:96)
	at org.red5.server.Bootstrap.bootStrap(Bootstrap.java:117)
	at org.red5.server.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:48)
Bootstrap exit

Replace your red5-service.jar with the latest build matching your red5-server.jar version.