Comments on: Installing Railo ColdFusion under IIS on Windows

By: Andrew Grosset

Andrew Grosset — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:43:41 +0000

just like to say thank you for posting this on your blog, it’s been a huge help in getting Railo working on windows 2008.

Andrew

By: Kevan Stannard

Kevan Stannard — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:00:47 +0000

Thanks Simon. I believe the team are currently working to improving the docs on the site so let’s see how things turn out over the coming weeks.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:00:50 +0000

Unfortunately Railo is not well documented, which is why its not being used by more people, probably won’t be until that issue is handled in a professional way. I appreciate you filling the gap and creating this tut, after having wasted so many hours due to lack of decent instructions at getrailo.org

By: sher

sher — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:39:46 +0000

Hello Kevin,

I installed all acording to the intructions given here.I use jdk-6u7-windows-i586-p.At the first time I got the window for start and stop resin service.Then I configured the IIS.But I couldnt view texs.jsp on the browser.It gave me foule not found 404 error.
Some how all other were ok with istalling and configuring IIS with resin.Now when I tried to start the sevice with httpd in command line it says "couldn"t start ""l -Xrs -Jar C:
esin3.1.6/library/resinjar" –resin-home c:
esin3.1.6 –root-directory C:
esin3.1.6.
I need your help Please

By: Kevan Stannard

Kevan Stannard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:02:57 +0000

Hi Belinda, I would guess that Railo and OpenBD would work fine on your platform, but you might like to post a message to the Railo and OpenBD forums.

Railo forum:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/

Open Blue Dragon forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/openbd/

Good luck!

By: Belinda

Belinda — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:56:14 +0000

Well, my site was running fine on cf4 (should be http://www.ehb-llc.com – but since migrating, only the development site above is working on a win98 machine that can still run cf4.0) til I purchased mx6, now nothing works and adobe wants me to purchase a new full-on version of cf8 – not in their lifetime. So I’m looking at alternative tools to run cf and have only found Railo or Dragon. Will Railo work with W2000AS/SP4 and IIS5.0 very well? Have any of you had this successful experience in loading/configuring this tool onto this platform? Any suggestions other than upgrading my OS or IIS is welcome – small businesses don’t have that luxury. I’m open to PHP, but was hoping to avoid this sort of migration til I’d exhausted all efforts to get these cf pages working.

By: Scott McCurdy

Scott McCurdy — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:31:23 +0000

Ok. Thank you.

By: Kevan Stannard

Kevan Stannard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:39:52 +0000

I just noticed that there is a Railo mailing list:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/railo-talk/

By: Kevan Stannard

Kevan Stannard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:33:20 +0000

Sorry Scott, can’t help you on that one. You can try posting a message to the CF-Talk mailing list http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/. I know that Gert Franz (developer of Railo) is frequently on the list so I am sure that you will get some feedback.

By: Scott McCurdy

Scott McCurdy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:09:58 +0000

I don’t know what I did, but the isapi_srun.dll file had a size of 0kb. So, I replaced it, restarted all services and that solved that problem and my application seems to be working, except what calls a datasource.

That brings me to my next dilema… setting up a datasource. All of the documentation I have found says to direct my browser to http://webroot/railo-context/admin/web.cfm, but it is not there. I used the railo-2.0.0.010-jars.zip for the install. This only included the jars files. Did I use the wrong install package? If not, how do I set up a datasource once teh ODBC ds is created in windows?