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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

Summary


We covered a lot of ground in this chapter. You should now have a good idea of:

  • The Server and Web contexts available to your application

    • The Server context is a part of Railo Server that is used to define settings across web contexts

    • The Web context(s) are instances of Railo Server that allow administrators to manage their own context independently of other Web Contexts

  • The settings available to change the time, output, performance, and internationalization of your server and web context

  • How to set up different services, such as databases and datasources, caches, adding debug information to your requests, and setting up a connection to mail servers

  • How to extend your server and web context with different applications available from different providers

  • How to call templates and components through different mappings that are outside the web root

This chapter should have given you a great overview of configuring and customizing your server to your needs.

In the next chapter, we shall start...