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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels
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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels

Overview of this book

<p>Railo Server is one of the quickest ways to start developing complex web applications online. Widely considered as the fastest CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) engine, Railo allows you to create dynamic web pages that can change depending on user input, database lookups, or even the time of day.</p> <p>Railo 3 Beginner's Guide will show you how to get up and running with Railo, as well as developing your web applications with the greatest of ease. You will learn how to install Railo and the basics of CFML to allow you to gradually build up your knowledge, and your dynamic web applications, as the book progresses.</p> <p>Using Packt’s Beginner's Guide approach, this book will guide you, with step-by-step instructions, through installing the Railo Server on various environments. You will learn how to use caches, resources, Event Gateways and special scripting functions that will allow you to create webpages with limitless functionality. You will even explore methods of extending Railo by adding your own tags to the server and building custom extensions. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide is a must for anyone getting to grips with Railo Server.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Railo 3
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action - setting the administrator's password


  1. 1. To update the passwords for both the server and the web administrators, let's point our browser to http://localhost:8888/railo-context/admin/web.cfm. You will get the web administrator's login screen. Because no password is currently set, Railo Server will prompt you to set one:

  2. 2. Enter your password and retype it to set the web administrator password.

  3. 3. Now click on the Server Administrator tab at the top-right-hand side and repeat the same procedure again. You have now set the passwords for the whole server administrator and for the web administrator.

  4. 4. Now that we have secured our server, we can start coding. You can find the webroot in <railo folder>/webroot, which is where we will save our template files. The main file will be index.cfm, which is already there.

What just happened?

You now have a fully-functional development environment for Railo and you didn't even have to install any software to get there!