I am having trouble trying to install OpenVPMS locally, and am hoping someone might be able to give me some advice.  This is on a brand new laptop, running Windows 7.

I followed the steps on the guide at:  http://www.openvpms.org/documentation/csh/1.8/topics/installing-openvpms/new-installation?destination=node%2F5612

but when trying to load http://localhost:8080/openvpms/app in the final step, I got the following error message:

'The requested resource () is not available'

http://localhost:8080 loaded the Tomcat config page, so I assume that at least is set up correctly.

I then found this guide:  http://www.openvpms.org/book/export/html/1741

Which had a few extra steps, including opening a port for MySQL and a clearer explanation of adding OpenOffice to the path system variable.

I went through all the steps in this guide (after having to uninstall and reinstall MySQL because the instance configuration wizard kept freezing at the 'start service' step), and now http://localhost:8080/openvpms/app shows this error:

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 

An error occurred at line: 1 in the generated java file
The type java.io.ObjectInputStream cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

Stacktrace:
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:93)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:451)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:319)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:298)
    org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:564)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:302)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
    org.openvpms.web.echo.servlet.Log4JMDCUserFilter.doFilter(Log4JMDCUserFilter.java:58)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:343)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:109)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:83)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)
    org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:78)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)
    org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:187)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:97)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)
    org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:79)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:355)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:149)
    org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:237)
    org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:167)

http://localhost:8080 still shows the Tomcat page.

The versions of the various software I used are:

OpenVPMS 1.8.1
MySQL 5.1
Tomcat 6.0.47
OpenOffice 4.1.3
JRE 8u112    (Initially installed the 64-bit version of the JRE, but had to then add the 32-bit for OpenOffice to detect it)

I don't really have any experience with MySQL, Apache or Java (or even OpenVPMS), so I've got no idea where to start.  I'd be really grateful if anyone here could help me out!

Thanks in advance, Rob.