Mike Benner

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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There are several articles on how to install Railo on Centos scattered about the web and many of them do a good job catering to those of us with limited *nix experience.  The problem I found is that none of them seemed to be complete and/or accurate as new versions of everything have been released recently.  I spent this weekend working thorugh all of the kinks and frustrations of learning to use SSH to setup up my server and the different problems that arised follwing these articles.  My goal is that by the end of this post you will be able to avoid some of the problems I enoucntered and have a better understanding of what is going on during the installation.  So without further ado, let's begin shall we.

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