Let's install Railo Server on a Windows machine to see how easy it is.
Before we install this version, make sure that Railo Express is not running anymore. If you still have the Start/start.bat
console window open, close it now. The reason for this is that both Jetty (Railo Express) and Tomcat listen to port 8888 by default, and only one program can bind them to a given port at the same time.
1. As with Railo Express, let's head to http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/
2. This time, let's download the Railo Server with Tomcat version:
3. Once we have downloaded the executable, we run it, We select the language we want to install it in, and click on OK:
4. When we get to the introduction screen, we click on Next >.
5. When asked where to install Railo Server, we leave it as
C:\railo
and click on Next >:6. The next screen asks us what we would like the Tomcat Administrator's username to be. We can leave it as
admin
and click on Next >...