A setup guide for getting Railo / Tomcat / Apache working on Windows (XP/Vista) 32 / 64 bit. I wrote this because not everyone in the CFML Community uses linux / mac. Not everyone is comfortable with the fancy schmancy command line or using eli te tools like vi.
Mango Blog 1.4 was released today. I went to upgrade, but I bumped into an issue and I wasn't able to track down what was failing. I stumbled around on the Mango forums until I came across this post that pretty much matches what I was having issues with.
Laura posted a response:
Open file components/Updater.cfc and change line 436 from:
<cfhttp url="#arguments.zipAddress#" method="get" path="#tempdir#">
to:
<cfhttp url="#arguments.zipAddress#" method="get" path="#tempdir#" file="#filename#">
This immediately fixed the issue and I've also written up a Railo JIRA ticket so someone can figure out what's happening with CFHTTP.
Last week at CFUnited, Railo 3.1.1 Final was released. This marks a major milestone for the Railo team as Railo moves from a commercial application (prior to 3.1) to an Open Source/JBoss project.
During the "Railo Open Source" presentation by Gert Franz, he outlines what's is possible with 3.1 and provides a roadmap of 3.2 and beyond which includes Hibernate integration and JBoss cache support.
If you have 3.1 beta now, you can log into your server context and upgrade to 3.1.1 by clicking on Services > Update. Point the URL to: http://preview.getrailo.org/ - click update and then, you should see the 3.1.1 patch notes. When you're ready, click on Execute Update.
Give it a few minutes as it's downloading in the background and installing. When it's done, you'll be booted from the admin and you'll have to re-login. When you do, you should see immediately that you're running Railo 3.1.1.000 final.
Recommended: If you're running a version prior to 3.1, we highly recommend re-installing to make sure everything is kosher.
Not Recommended: There is a shortcut you can take with Resin, but we don't support/recommend it. You can shutdown the Resin service, go to the {railo install dir}. Then, make a copy/backup {railo install dir}/lib and download the jar files at the bottom of the download page. Then, extract the jar files over top of the previous jars in {railo install dir}/lib. Once you're finished, start up the services and log into the admin and you should see the server now at Railo 3.1.1.000 final. Your mileage varies and remember, this is not recommended. I have done this, it worked for me. I know several others that did this as well with success. I also know of a couple of people that had issues.
Enjoy!