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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 - booting up Jetty


It is important to note that Jetty will not start yet. There is a safety precaution in a Jetty configuration file that helps avoid problems. We need to go edit the default Jetty configuration and remove this safety block.

You can use whatever text editor you prefer, but we're going use the "vi" editor for this example.

Let's open up the /etc/default/jetty configuration file in the "vi" editor. To do this, all you have to do is type:

sudo vi /etc/default/jetty
  1. 1. Now that you're in "vi" editor, use the arrow keys and move your cursor to the beginning of the line that states NO_START=1.

  2. 2. Hit the I key on your keyboard. This will put the "vi" editor in what's called Insert mode and allow you to insert text. You will see a white - Insert - at the bottom-left-hand side of your screen. This is how you know you're in Insert mode.

  3. 3. Type a pound sign (#) in front of the "NO_START=1 line, so that it looks like "#NO_START=1. This will comment out that line.

  4. 4...