Installation help for adobe livecycle server

Hi All,
I am very new to configuring websphere application server on adobe livecycle server. pls try to help.

I have installed the websphere properly and able to load sample webpages, but not able to configure it for adobe livecycle server.

I am trying to study and so installing both on the same computer.
the websphere webpage shows http://localhost:9081

In the windows host file i entered following(localhost:9081 server1)
inputted following values still not working
1. Deploy Type = Single Server
2. Server Instance = server1 ( this is the name of WAS)
3. Host Name : localhost:9081
4. soap port : 8880
5. admin user id : given
6. password : given
7. local application server root directory =C:/Program Files/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/

while clicking on Verify server connection, getting the following error message
Cannot connect to application server

Please help me as i am trying for couple of days to fix this.

Thanks
JG