Getting Railo installed and started on your Mac
Woohoo, this has been fun. As most of you know i'm a total Mac newbie. So not having everything done and wrapped in .exe files has been hard to process this year. Don't get me wrong. Installing and uninstalling apps on a Mac couldn't be easier and anyone who has made the switch can testify to that. But when it comes to servers its just never seems as straight forwads as a Windows experience.
So after a couple of hours of reading and understanding command lines and arguments etc i've finally managed to get Railo installed without emailing anyone and screaming helppppp! which for me is a first. (Hat tip here for Mark Drew who has been on the other end of most of my screams and always helped me)
These were instructions oringinally for the *nix platform (which is what Mac is in essence), so if you are having trouble getting off the ground with Ubuntu etc. you can use these steps as well.
So back to installing Railo on your Mac (in as easy as I could make it steps). You should know that we are going to use the application server that comes with Railo called Resin.Comments
Thans very much for this write-up! I noticed the default settings in init.resin have changed (almost) to the ones you're suggesting here, so that's cool.
Also, the init file has a small explanation which you could also add to this article: "# To install, configure this file as needed and copy init.resin to /etc/rc.d/init.d as resin. Then use "# /sbin/chkconfig resin reset""
This way, railo/resin should auto-start, which was the problem I was having.
Regards, Paul Klinkenberg
