I tried following Sean Corfield's excellent post on how to get Railo running on Tomcat, but ran into a few snags on my x64 windows system.

First download Tomcat 6 from the Apache Foundation. I picked the "Windows Service Installer" of the Core.

Start up the installer and hit next a few times until you get to the "Choose Components" section. Select Full install and then uncheck the Examples item as we won't be needing it.

Pick the installation folder, and the default port, and set a password for the administrator. At the next step it will ask for a path to a J2SE 5.0 JRE installation. Finding this on Sun's site is a bit of a pain, so here is a link to the J2SE 5.0 Update 22, which is the latest as of this writing.

Download it, install it and make a note of what folder it installs in. In my case it was "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_22". This is the path I provided to Tomcat installer.

Finish the tomcat installation and you will see that the service is installed, but will not start. This is because we need the 64bit service wrapper

The only file that should be in there is tomcat6.exe. Download it and replace the one in your tomcat's installation bin folder. In my case that folder is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin".

Now if you go to "http://localhost:8080/", you should see The Tomcat default start page.

In part II, we will cover getting setting up Apache.

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