System Requirements

Railo Open Source has been tested in several different environments. This page summarizes the system requirements and the recommended configuration.

Recommended architecture for a standalone or clustering environment.

Railo 3.3 is a servlet that needs to run in a servlet engine. Therefore it can run on any platform that has a servlet engine. Up until today we have different tests under the following operating systems and servlet engines.
 

Operating system Servlet Engine / Application server
  • Windows 2000, XP, Vista
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows 2008 Server
  • CentOS
  • Red Hat Linux
  • Suse Linux
  • Debian Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • Knoppix
  • Sun Solaris
  • Max OSX
  • For other operating systems: If a servlet engine for this OS
    exists, Railo will probably run on it.
  • JBoss AS
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Mortbay Jetty
  • Caucho Resin
  • Glassfish
  • IBM Websphere *)
  • BEA Weblogic *)
  • JRun *)

 

In a cluster, we have made the best experiences with Apache Tomcat, Caucho Resin or JBoss under Linux. The following configuration is the optimum one for a regular or clustering environment:


 

Operating system: Linux CentOS 5.2 64bit Windows 200x
Webserver: Apache 2.x  IIS6 or 7
Application server: Tomcat because of the great performance
CFML engine: Railo 3.3.1 Enterprise bundle because of the great clustering functionalities and the Intergral Fusion products
Hardware: Dual or Quad Core, later processor generation
Memory: 8GB Ram If 64bit, 8GB otherwise 4GB
Database: MySQL 5.x MS Server 2005 or 2008

 

The minimum requirement for a Railo Server looks like this:


 

Operating system: Linux CentOS 5.2 32bit Windows 2003
Webserver: Apache 2.x  IIS6
Application server: Apache Tomcat
CFML Engine: Railo 3.1.1 Open Source
Hardware: 1.7 GHz Prozessor der neueren Generation
Memory: 1GB Ram 1GB
Database: Integrated database Integrated database

 

Railo runs with as less than 64MB of RAM, but in order to have it perform very well you should at least configure it to run with 256MB. In addition to Railo the OS needs some RAM as well, hence the Memory numbers.