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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 - upgrading Railo Server


Before we get started, it should be mentioned that the ORM feature is in the Beta state for Railo 3.2, but this is ok. Let's update the Railo Server, so that we can use these features. It's quick and painless:

  1. 1. Open the Railo Administrator at http://localhost:8888/railo-context/admin/index.cfm and click on the Server Administrator tab.

  2. 2. Either enter your password or set a password if you have not already done so.

  3. 3. Notice the current version of Railo Server in your installation:

  4. 4. Under the Services section, click on the Update link.

  5. 5. The Update section allows you to stay up-to-date with major and minor releases of Railo Server.

    In the Properties section, select the Development releases (Bleeding Edge) radio button and click on the Update button.

  6. 6. Once the page refreshes, scroll down and you should be able to see an Info panel, showing you the release notes of the latest version of Railo. Click on the execute update button; this will install...