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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 - installing on Windows


Let's install Railo Server on a Windows machine to see how easy it is.

Before we install this version, make sure that Railo Express is not running anymore. If you still have the Start/start.bat console window open, close it now. The reason for this is that both Jetty (Railo Express) and Tomcat listen to port 8888 by default, and only one program can bind them to a given port at the same time.

  1. 1. As with Railo Express, let's head to http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/

  2. 2. This time, let's download the Railo Server with Tomcat version:

  3. 3. Once we have downloaded the executable, we run it, We select the language we want to install it in, and click on OK:

  4. 4. When we get to the introduction screen, we click on Next >.

  5. 5. When asked where to install Railo Server, we leave it as C:\railo and click on Next >:

  6. 6. The next screen asks us what we would like the Tomcat Administrator's username to be. We can leave it as admin and click on Next &gt...