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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 an extension for the web context


As the title suggests, we're going to install an extension for one web context. This needs to be done via the corresponding web administrator.

  1. 1. Go to http://localhost:8080/railo-context/admin/web.cfm (or browse as according to your local setup, for example, site2.local:8888).

  2. 2. After logging in, go to the menu item Extension | Applications.

  3. 3. Under the heading Not installed, click on the link CFDNS.

  4. 4 You will get a details page with the specifications of the extension:

  5. 5. Now click on Install.

  6. 6. After agreeing to the license information, you'll get the following screen:

  7. 7. That screen means you have installed a new Railo Server custom tag within 30 seconds.

  8. 8. Let's test this by creating a new file dnstest.cfm with the following content:

    <cfdns action="getaddress" host="www.getrailo.org" variable="testresult" />
    <cfdump eval=testresult />
    
  9. 9. When we save that page and run it, we get the following output:

What just...