Railo

When you install Railo, the default JRE that comes with it is 1.6.0_01. So you might want to upgrade it some when. [More]

This is something we wanted to do for more than a year now. We wanted to implement a cache that is reachable from all the servers in a cluster. So here we go... [More]

Well, July is coming to an end. Not sure about the rest of you, but I'm glad. It's been a long month. :) August is due up any moment now and CFUnited is just around the corner with less than 12 days to go. If you're not able to make it to CFUnited ... [More] , you'll probably find Twitter to be the best place to keep up with all the news that's coming out. If you don't actually want to create a Twitter account, you can still keep tabs by going to: http://twitter.com/#search?q=CFUnited & http://twitter.com/#search?q=Railo.If you do create a Twitter account, be sure to follow CFUnited, Railo, Gert Franz (CEO), Mark Drew (CEO, UK), Peter Bell (CEO, US), Sean Corfield (CTO, US) and Myself (Volunteer Community Manager). You should also keep an eye on Paul Kukiel, our CFUnited Ticket Winner and make sure he's putting his hard earned ticket to good use! ( No Pressure Paul! ;) ) [Less]

A while ago on the getRailo.org community mailing list, there was a request to setup a "Resin Express" because Railo Express that we currently package uses Jetty and the Pretty URL support in Jetty is nill. A few days later, Gert put together and ... [More] provided a download for Railo-Resin Express.Pierre-Olivier Chassay was recently wanting to put Railo on a CD with a functional database. I pointed him at Gert's post and he gave it a shot. He blogged his experience his effort getting Railo on a CD as well as getting the H2 Database working as well. Thanks Pierre-Olivier for sharing this information! [Less]

*drum roll* Paul Kukiel is going to CFUnited as the winner of our competition with the following entry: Huge news Microsoft , Google and Apple to use CFML, Railo the engine of choice: http://bit.ly/17Yj7s Congratulations Paul! Our runners-up all get ... [More] a T shirt of their choice from the Railo T shirt store (@mangoblog, @maestrofjp, @russplaysguitar, @jeffglad, @aarongreenlee and @JasonPDean) [Less]

Ever wish you could just install a frequently used UDF to the server since you use it so much? Take any of the numerous UDFs found at CFLib.org for example. How about... QueryRowToStruct()? That's a pretty useful function. Wonder why they didn't ... [More] build this in? With Railo 3.1 RC, you can build this in yourself. With this blog post, I'm going to outline two different installation concepts, server wide and local context. First, server wide:Click on the "Download" link on QueryRowToStruct and you'll be prompted to download QueryRowToStruct.cfmFor server wide installation, you'll want to put this in the following directory: {railo installation directory}/lib/railo-server/context/library/function/Restart the server (I had to, I'm going to verify if this step is really necessary or if it can be fixed :) )Once installed, I shouldn't have to cfinclude or copy/paste that function anywhere. I can create a test.cfm in my localhost and run the example code on QueryRowToStruct description page.Now, you may be in a particular situation where you can't have this server-wide because you share the server with other people or because there's a conflict. You could just install it to your local context. Each virtual host you make should have its own WEB-INF directory, so you have a global admin and a local admin.You would repeat all of the steps above, except for #2, you'll want to install this here instead: {your website root directory}/WEB-INF/railo/library/function/Remember, you don't have to use anything specific from CFLib.org. You can write your own user defined function or install the one that you frequently use. I bet this makes you wonder if Railo 3.1 could give you the ability to create your own Built-In-Tag? ;) You can and there's been some changes, so I plan on investigating and outlining in a new blog post. If you want to see if you can figure it out for yourself, you can use Andrea Campolonghi's <cfajaxproxy> as a great example. This example includes installation directions and will only work on Railo 3.1.020 build or higher.Update: The resin webserver doesn't need to be restarted, but the Railo servlet engine does. You can do this one of two ways, log into the admin portal and click Restart or via code: <cfadmin action="restart" type="server" password="serverPassword"> [Less]

Here's the list of seven finalists in our CFUnited ticket competition: Tuesday 21st - @paulkukiel Huge news Microsoft, Google and Apple to use CFML, Railo the engine of choice: http://bit.ly/17Yj7s Monday 20th - @mangoblog OMG! Railo and Mango ... [More] kissing in a tree! Sunday 19th - @maestrofjp A CFML engine in a smokey room; A smell of beer & cheap code; For a smile they can share the night; It goes on & on & on & on Saturday 18th - @russplaysguitar Railo: It has nothing to do with El Chupacabra. Friday 17th - @jeffglad a video metaphor for how I did CF before and After Railo - http://bit.ly/136EYx Enjoy! Thursday 16th - @aarongreenlee Dynamik gewinnt. Está ganando impulso. Momentum est de plus en plus. Momentum získává. Le cose si stanno guadagnando. Wednesday 15th - @JasonPDean I left my wife for Railo OS (and an honorable mention to somber_angel for "My husband left me for Railo OS") Here's how the draw will work: We'll randomly select one of the seven and DM them on Twitter to confirm that they can actually use the ticket (i.e., that they plan to book flights and hotel to attend the conference on our ticket!). You must be following @railo in order to receive the DM! If the first draw says "no", they'll get a T shirt and we'll draw again, until we find a willing winner! The other finalists will get a T shirt. Our intent is that the ticket go to one of the finalists, to actually attend CFUnited, rather than have anyone trade/sell their ticket so that someone who made the effort to enter the competition reaps the benefit. Once we've confirmed a winner, we'll blog that! [Less]

Railo is giving away a ticket for CFUnited 2009 to one lucky winner in a Twitter-based competition held over the next seven days. Six runners-up will get a "Got Railo?" T shirt of their choice. For a chance to win, all you have to do is Tweet ... [More] something cool or witty about Railo! Competition Rules: Entries must use the #cfunited-railo hash tag to identify them. The competition is open Wednesday July 15th (tomorrow) thru Tuesday 21st (seven days). The Railo team will pick what we think is the coolest / funniest Tweet each day. When the competition closes, the pick from each day will go into a hat and the CFUnited ticket winner will be chosen by random selection. The remaining six picks will get a T shirt of their choice from our store. You may enter as many times as you want each day (but we will pick a different entrant each day). We will contact the winners by DM on Twitter so you must follow @railo to be notified! We will Tweet each day's pick once we have made a selection (our goal is to make each day's selection the following day) and we will blog all the winners within a day or two of the competition closing. Good luck! [Less]

Just wanted to drop a note and inform everyone that the Railo 3.1 build is now available and entering release candidate. You can download 3.1 via getRailo.org or if you have an existing Railo admin, log in and goto Services > Update.

Sean Corfield has posted new and improved simplified instructions on how to build 3.1.0.020.