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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 - downloading and deploying the Railo WAR


The process of deploying a WAR file is super simple. You just download the WAR file, place it in the webapps or webapp folder of whichever servlet engine you're using, and your servlet engine will handle the rest via AutoDeploy. The following steps describe how to accomplish this with our Ubuntu/Jetty install.

  1. 1. Move to the Jetty's webapps folder. You can do that in Ubuntu's Terminal interface by typing in the following command:

    $ cd /var/lib/jetty/webapps/
    
  2. 2. Download Railo's WAR file. At the time of this writing, the most recent Railo release is 3.2.2.000, so let's download that WAR to our Jetty webapps directory.

  3. 3. To save time in the future, let's rename that WAR file to simply railo.zip with the following command:

    $ sudo mv railo-3.2.2.000.war railo.zip
    
  4. 4. Unzip it so that it's deployed:

    $ sudo unzip -d railo railo.zip
    
  5. 5. Remove the ZIP file as we're done with it:

    $ sudo rm railo.zip
    
  6. 6. Finally, change the permissions of the...