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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

Chapter 4. Railo Server Administration

So far, we have looked at installing Railo Server, got to grips with the CFML language that we can write our templates in, and very briefly visited the Railo Administrator to create a datasource. In this chapter, we will explore the Railo Administrator in more detail and get to grips with:

  • Server and Web context: What does each one manage and how do they affect each other

  • Settings: How they affect performance, output, and internationalization of your server

  • Services: How to access other services, such as databases, caches, event gateways, debugging, and mail servers

  • Extensions: How you can add extra functionality to the Railo server through extensions

  • Archives and Resources: How to access mappings, resources, custom tags, and CFX tags

  • Security: Setting the password and access restrictions for each context

By the end of this chapter, we will have a good grasp of the various settings that can be changed and configured in the Railo Server Administration...