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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 Galleon forums web application


In order to see a more complex application installed, we are going to install the Galleon forums application in our web context:

  1. 1. Before we go ahead, Galleon needs a database to store all of its information. We need to create a database and assign a datasource to it (we have covered this already a number of times; just create a new database in your MySQL database server and a datasource in the Services | Datasource section of the administrator) and call it Galleon to keep it consistent.

  2. 2. Let's go and check out the available applications in our Railo Web Administrator by going to http://localhost:8888/railo-context/admin/web.cfm and clicking on the Extension | Applications link. Here, we can see the available applications that can be installed in our context:

  3. 3. Let's choose the Galleon CFML Forums and click on the option to see some more information about it:

  4. 4. Now that we are ready to install it, click on the install button...