Red5 test page won't come up - windows-server-2008

Question

I successfully installed red5 rc1 on windows server 2008 with these parameters:
127.0.0.1 port 5080
as per tutorials.
I execute the StartRed5-NT.bat since it is an NT os... and it gives me Red5 Has Started output.
when i try to then type
127.0.0.1:5080
localhost:5080
or even its externalIP:5080
into a web browser address, i get 404 errors.
Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong that's preventing me to run the test page? I am assuming if the test page doesn't work the server does not work either.
Edit: I have reinstalled a few times and tried other ports with no effective change. Even some of the ports that were used for other services were temporarily disabled to try that port but to no avail.

Answer 1

I found the solution after going through the logs VERY carefully.
to get this to work,(at least on windows 7 and windows server 2008)
the red5.bat must look like this:
#echo off
SETLOCAL
if NOT DEFINED RED5_HOME set RED5_HOME=%~dp0
if NOT DEFINED RED5_MAINCLASS set RED5_MAINCLASS=org.red5.server.Bootstrap
if NOT DEFINED JAVA_HOME goto err
REM JAVA options
REM You can set JAVA_OPTS to add additional options if you want
REM Set up logging options
set LOGGING_OPTS=-Dlogback.ContextSelector=org.red5.logging.LoggingContextSelector -Dcatalina.useNaming=true
REM Set up security options
REM set SECURITY_OPTS= -Djava.security.debug=failure -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy="%RED5_HOME%/conf/red5.policy"
set SECURITY_OPTS=-Djava.security.debug=failure
set JAVA_OPTS=%LOGGING_OPTS% %SECURITY_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS%
set JYTHON_OPTS=-Dpython.home=lib
set RED5_CLASSPATH=%RED5_HOME%\boot.jar;%RED5_HOME%\conf;%CLASSPATH%
if NOT DEFINED RED5_OPTS set RED5_OPTS=
goto launchRed5
:launchRed5
echo Starting Red5
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" %JYTHON_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% -cp "%RED5_CLASSPATH%" %RED5_MAINCLASS% %RED5_OPTS%
goto finally
:err
echo JAVA_HOME environment variable not set! Take a look at the readme.
pause
:finally
ENDLOCAL
then proceed to delete two files:
com.springsource.slf4j.juli-1.6.1.jar
com.springsource.slf4j.log4j-1.6.1.jar
this may only apply to the windows installer version of the application but hopefully if someone hits this, they won't need to waste a lot of time on it.