The Selenium RC server is simply a Java jar file (selenium-server-standalone-<version-number>.jar), which doesn’t require any special installation. Just downloading the zip file and extracting the server in the desired directory is sufficient.
STEPS:
1. Download latest Java SE from http://java.sun.com/ and install
2. Download latest version of Selenium RC from and extract
3. Create a folder named Selenium at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin
4. Copy all files under Selenium-server-0.9.2 which you will find in the extracted folder and paste in the newly created folder
5. From Command prompt run the following commands:
cd \
cd C:\PROGRA~1\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin
java -jar .\Selenium\selenium-server.jar -interactive
If you see the following messages at the end of the console, you are quite confirm that the Selenium server is running fine:
Entering interactive mode… type Selenium commands here (e.g: cmd=open&1=http:/
/www.yahoo.com)