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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 - creating a mapping for the log file


Instead of hardcoding the location of our code, let's create a mapping in the Railo Web Administrator that we are going to use to point to our location.

  1. 1. Open up the Railo Web Administrator by browsing to http://localhost:8888/railo-context/admin/web.cfm and log in.

  2. 2. Click on the Mappings link that can be found under the Archives & Resources section on the left.

  3. 3. Here you will see the Archives & Resources - Mappings screen.

  4. 4. Let's add a mapping to a folder that isn't in our web root; in my example, I am using /temp/logs but you can choose anywhere (for example, C:\temporary\logs\ if you are using Microsoft Windows). Add the name of our mapping, /logs, in the text field under the Virtual column, and then add the path to the folder in the text field under the Resource column:

  5. 5. Now click on the save button to update this mapping

  6. 6. Now that we have created this mapping, let's see how we can use it in our code

  7. 7. Create...