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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 - setting the time zone


Let's create a file that will display the time zone for the current context:

  1. 1. In your <Railo Intall Directory>/webroot/, create a file called server_timezone.cfm.

  2. 2. In that file, enter the following code:

    <cfoutput>#getTimeZone()# #Now()#</cfoutput>
    
  3. 3. Let's copy this file to our second context located in <Railo Intall Directory>/webroot2/.

  4. 4. If you now go to http://localhost:8888/server_timezone.cfm, you should see your local time zone, for example, mine displays:

    America/New_York {ts '2011-09-16 13:08:10'}

  5. 5. If you now go to your second context by going to http://site2.local:8888/server_timezone.cfm, you should also see:

    America/New_York {ts '2011-09-16 13:10:27'} (or at least the same as was displayed in your first context).

  6. 6. Let's set the server context and see what happens. In your browser, go to http://site2.local:8888/railo-context/admin/server.cfm and log in (or enter a new password and confirm it if it hasn...