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How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 4

Posted At : October 20, 2011 4:35 PM | Posted By : Matthew Williams
Related Categories: Tomcat, Development, ColdFusion 9.x, Railo

On our plate today, we'll be installing Apache.  I'm using the 2.2.x branch.

  • Go and grab your .msi, I'd recommend the one with OpenSSL included.  http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache22
  • Install Apache to c:\cf_dev\apache.  You'll need to choose "custom install" to change the directory. The other values can be left at default.
  • Get CF9 hooked up to Apache, Start-> All Programs-> Adobe-> CF9 xxxx-> Web Server Configuration Tool
  • Click Add... to create a new connector
  • Choose the CFusion instance and select Apache as your web server.  You'll need to pick out the configuration directory (c:\cf_dev\apache\conf) and the binary object (c:\cf_dev\apache\bin\httpd.exe) and check "install CF9 services".
  • Edit c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\httpd.conf and add at the bottom (the include pulls in any files we add to dev folder):
    #Turn on virtualhosts
    NameVirtualHost *:80
    NameVirtualHost *:443

    Include c:/cf_dev/apache/conf/dev/*.conf

    <Files ~ ".hbmxml$">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    </Files>
  • Find DirectoryIndex in the httpd.conf file, and add index.cfm to it.
  • Create a new site vhost file, we'll start with site1 (from back on day 1).  Create it as c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\dev\site1.conf
  • Fill it like so:
    #site1
    <VirtualHost *:80>
    <Directory "C:\cf_dev\projects\site1">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    alias /CFIDE C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\CFIDE
    alias /cfide C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\CFIDE

     # JRun Settings
    <IfModule mod_jrun22.c>
        JRunConfig Verbose false
        JRunConfig Apialloc false
        JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
        JRunConfig Serverstore "C:/JRun4/lib/wsconfig/1/jrunserver.store"
        JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51020
        AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf
    </IfModule>   

     DocumentRoot "C:\cf_dev\projects\site1"
     ServerName site1.local
     ServerAdmin contact@localhost
    </VirtualHost>
  • Note, you should now remove all but LoadModule jrun_module "C:/JRun4/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so" from c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\httpd.conf.  This will allow us to use multiple J2EE engines under the same apache config.
  • Edit http.conf, and uncomment:
    LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
    LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
  • Create a Railo based site for Site2 (follow the steps found on day one to first create the site2 project), fill the c:\cf_dev\apache\conf\dev\site2.conf with (we use proxypass to hand of CFM requests):
    #site2
    <VirtualHost *:80>
    <Directory "C:/cf_dev/projects/site2">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Proxy *>
                Allow from 127.0.0.1
        </Proxy>

    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyPassMatch  ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$  ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2

     DocumentRoot "C:/cf_dev/projects/site"
     ServerName site2.local
     ServerAdmin contact@localhost
    </VirtualHost>
  • To make Tomcat aware of server, we need to add this just before the </engine> tag at the end of c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\server.xml.  It seems like duplication, but it just MUST be done:
    <Host name="site2.local" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
              <Context path="" docBase="C:/cf_dev/projects/site2" />
        </Host>
  • Edit your hosts file (mine is at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to locally route our requests to the correct place.
    127.0.0.1 site1.local
    127.0.0.1 site2.local

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How to configure a kick ass development setup - day 3

Posted At : October 20, 2011 3:08 PM | Posted By : Matthew Williams
Related Categories: Tomcat, Development, Railo

Today, we'll deploy Railo on Tomcat 6.  Note, I'm doing this the "hard way".  Jorden, from viviotek, created a handy dandy installer.  But, I rather like to install this stuff by hand so I can know what to fix should it break.  Pretty much all of this info is gleaned from Sean Corfield and his blog about installing various bits and pieces.  You can find it here.

  • Grab Tomcat 6 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi. I used the Core:32-bit windows zip
  • Edit your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to c:\cf_dev\<jdk you downloaded previously>
  • Unzip it to c:\cf_dev and rename the folder to tomcat6
  • Go grab the Railo JAR files from http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/.  
  • Unzip these files to c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\railo
  • Open up c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\catalina.properties and find common.loader=.  Add ${catalina.home}/railo,${catalina.home}/railo/*.jar to that line.
  • Open up c:\cf_dev\tomcat6\conf\web.xml At the end of the servlet section, just before the servlet-mapping section, add the following:
    <servlet>
       <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
       <description>CFML runtime Engine</description>
       <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.CFMLServlet</servlet-class>
       <init-param>
    <param-name>configuration</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/railo</param-value>
    <description>Configuration directory</description>
    </init-param>  
       <!-- init-param>
    <param-name>railo-server-root</param-name>
    <param-value>.</param-value>
    <description>directory where railo root directory is stored</description>
    </init-param -->
       <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>  
    <servlet>
       <servlet-name>RailoAMFServlet</servlet-name>
       <description>AMF Servlet for flash remoting</description>
       <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.AMFServlet</servlet-class>
       <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>  
    <servlet>
       <servlet-name>RailoFileServlet</servlet-name>
       <description>File Servlet for simple files</description>
       <servlet-class>railo.loader.servlet.FileServlet</servlet-class>
       <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
  • At the end of the servlet-mapping section, just before the filter section, add the following:
    <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>*.cfm</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>*.cfml</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>RailoCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>*.cfc</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
       <servlet-name>RailoAMFServlet</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>/flashservices/gateway/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
       <!-- could be RailoFileServlet -->
       <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
       <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
  • At end of the file, add index.cfmto the list of "welcome files".
  • Open a command prompt, and run c:\cf_dev\tomcat\service.bat install to create a handy windows service

That's it!  We now have Tomcat + Railo rolling on our machine.  We're still missing the site definition, but that's a task we'll handle after we have Apache up and running.

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