Time for action — downloading and deploying Roller
In this exercise, we'll go to the Roller download website, grab the latest Roller zip file, and copy it to Tomcat's webapps folder.
Go to the Apache Roller downloads web page (http://roller.apache.org/downloads.html) and click on the Roller 4.0.1 ("best available") link from the General Availability (GA) Releases section:
Scroll down to the Roller 4.0.1 section of the next page, and click on the apache-roller-4.0.1.zip link:
Select the Save File radio button from the Opening apache-roller-4.0.1.zip dialog and click on OK to start the download process. The file will take several seconds to download (or minutes, depending on your Internet connection speed).
Right-click on the
apache-roller-4.0.1.zipfile you've just downloaded and select Open Containing Folder from the pop-up menu:
Right-click on the
apache-roller-4.0.1.zipfile and select Extract here from the pop-up menu:
The extracted files will be inside the
apache-roller-4.0.1folder. Now...
