Category Archives: Railo

May 27, 2010

CFML issue on Railo with the accelerate cache tag– also posted in ColdFusion

We’ve been using Brandon Purcell’s excellent accelerate custom cache tag for a few projects. I had an issue today while testing a new app which is about to go live. It seemed that whatever I did nothing would be cached.
Upon investigation it seemed that the caching worked fine on Adobe ColdFusion but not on Railo. [...]

March 3, 2010

Detecting https across Railo and ColdFusion Server– also posted in ColdFusion

Previously I had a way of detecting whether page requests were being made via ssl but today I came across a scenario where this doesn’t work. Let me explain…
Right now we’re looking at developing across different ColdFusion engines, “ColdFusion” of course but also “Railo”. One of the applications we had detected whether a request was [...]

August 16, 2008

2 cool things about Railo– also posted in ColdFusion

Session management:
If an application/session scope is defined with the tag <CFAPPLICATION …> or the application.cfc, in Railo it will not automatically exist. Only when the scope is used for the first time it will be created. If the scope is not used, it won’t be created either.
This is really good news. Many people have blogged [...]

August 16, 2008

FarCry 5 running on Railo 3 (Windows)– also posted in ColdFusion, Farcry

The CFML market is hotting up with Railo going open source (in version 3.1) and joining forces with JBoss for an end of 2008 release! With that in mind I figured it was time to check out Railo with the latest version of FarCry.
My environment:

Windows XP
Railo 3.0.0.003
FarCry 5.0.0 (although 5.0.2 is out, the latest distro [...]