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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

Running the Railo Server Tomcat installer


The Railo Server Tomcat installer was developed with several goals in mind. Those goals are as follows:

  • Easy Integration with the existing web servers: As a general rule, most developers are comfortable working with either Apache or IIS as their web server, and don't want or need to use anything different. The Railo Server Tomcat installer provides a way for those developers to get up and running quickly with support for their preferred web servers. This means those developers (and possibly you) will not have to change their development style too much in order to get comfortable with Railo.

  • Better ''Control Panel'' support: By seamlessly supporting existing web servers, the Railo installer can very easily be deployed by hosting companies or individuals using services from a hosting company. This gives Railo developers the ability to use whatever Control Panel (such as cPanel, Plesk, Virtualmin, and so on) they're most comfortable with and...