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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

Server and Web context


Before we delve too deeply into the administration of Railo Server, there is an important concept to get to grips with first. Even though, so far, we have been running only one website, Railo Server can actually run a number of websites.

A good example would be if we were running two different websites from our server, say our main website (http://localhost:8888) and another website, let's call it http://site2.local:8888.

Different websites might have different settings, and if you were an ISP, it probably would be maintained by different people. Railo Server allows you to do this by giving each context its own administrator and separating it from the other contexts, depending on which domain was used in the URL to access each site. These are called Web contexts.

Of course, the main administrator of the site should have access to all the settings and could also set "defaults" for the Web contexts. This is called the Server context.

You can visualize it as follows:

Imagine...