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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 - installing the Video Extension


So far, we have looked at the Railo Web Administrator, but because the Video Extension is installed server wide, we need to go to the Railo Server Administrator to download the extension.

  1. 1. In your browser, go to http://localhost:8888/railo-context/admin/server.cfm and either log in or enter your new password.

  2. 2. Under the Extension section on the left-hand side, click on Applications. This will take you to the Applications page where you can see the available extensions for Railo Server.

  3. 3. Click on the Video Core extension, and it will take you to the information page of the Video Extension.

  4. 4. Click on the Install button, and it will take you to the page that allows you to install the video components. Under the hood, the <cfvideo> tag uses the FFmpeg library. This form allows you to install your own version or get a pre-built version for your operating system.

  5. 5. Leave the radio button selected on the Download video components...