Mike Benner

Since the days of MX7 I have always had issues with CF's ability to properly build a dynamic PDF. FlashPaper always seemed to work better (made sense when Macromedia was in charge) but I thought for sure that PDF would "just work" when Adobe took over. I have been sadly mistaken in my thoughts and have experienced nothing but bug after bug. This most recent bug, is something that I have ALWAYS experienced but thought it would have been fixed moving to CF8. It is the issue that when placing images in the header and trying to size them. They just scaled willy nilly. Seriously, no rhyme or reason just scaling, I can refresh the page with the same data and get a different scaled image.

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Ray Camden, with the help of Dan Switzer, pushed out an update to the BlogCFC engine tonight.  You can get all the juicy details and download it here.

OK, we now have a web server running and a database running.  Wouldn't it be great if we could output the data on the web?  That's what I thought, so let's get Railo installed and start publishing some CFML.  This section of the series is when we get to compile our own connector between Apache and Resin.  It is also the piece that was difficult to track down what went wrong.  The actual compiling and installing isn't difficult, it is more the knowledge of the arguments needed to make it work on this set up.

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We interrupt our series on installing Railo 3.0.2 on CentOS for an important announcement.  Railo 3.1+JBoss is now available.

This is not the version we are using in our series, but once we complete this series of installation tutorials, we will revisit with the new Railo.

Where were we?  Oh yes, we just got Apache running and had a beer.  OK, those things out of the way let's get MySQL installed. This is not that tough at all, but there are a few gotcha's that I ran into when trying to get Railo and my Dev Tools on the laptop to connect to the server and we will address those as well.

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