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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 - investigating the Web Administrator


Now that we have secured the Web Administrator, let's log in again and explore it:

  1. 1. In your browser, go to http://site2.local:8888/railo-context/admin/web.cfm.

  2. 2. Enter your password and click on the submit button.

  3. 3. You should now see the Railo Web Administrator - Overview, as shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

Using the password we set earlier, we have logged into the Railo Web Administrator and seen the Overview page.

This Overview page gives us a lot of important information about our current installation such as:

  • Railo version, name, and release date

  • The Adobe ColdFusion(tm) compatibility level

  • The operating system

  • IP address of the caller and the host name

  • The Servlet container type and server ID

  • Loaded tag libraries

  • Loaded function libraries

  • Local Web Administrator time

  • Server time

  • Loaded Java Virtual Machine (JVM) version

  • Maximum available amount of memory

  • Class path (loaded Java archives JARs)

  • Railo Company information...