FarCry 5.2 + Railo 3.1.0.16 + Resin + Apache + MySQL + CentOS - Addendum 1

Posted At : July 11, 2009 12:38 AM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: FarCry, Railo, ColdFusion 8.x

I had an "Ah HA!" moment when I got home tonight. I copied in my FarCry core folder from my known good Ubuntu Railo/FarCry install over to my CentOS install and still had issues. I tried several iterations of this, and then I had a think. I pulled up the Railo admin on my Ubuntu install, and noticed I had it at .012. And then it hit me... I was actually in a discussion about this with others on the google groups. I thought I had tried it at 3.1.0.016, but I think I did not complete the upgrade step.

So, I copied the .012 install of Railo over to the CentOS box and it worked! Huzzah! So, it appears that .012 remains the most supported version at this point in time. I'm hosting a copy of this file on my site, but please be gentle! I don't want to hear it from my host that ya'll are killing my server. You can grab the file here.

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FarCry 5.2 + Railo 3.1.0.16 + Resin + Apache + MySQL + CentOS - Part 3

Posted At : July 10, 2009 2:52 PM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: FarCry, Railo, ColdFusion 8.x

In this installment we're going to be installing FarCry, and tweaking our Apache settings a bit. To let ya'll know upfront, there's still a few issues with FarCry and functions that are named the same as internal Railo functions. I know these changes were placed into trunk at one point, but it doesn't seem like they migrated over to the 5.1.6 release. That's OK, I've got a fairly stable pull of the core trunk files from a few weeks back that I'll be linking on the site this evening. I'll verify that this fixes the odd "function cannot be named" stuff going on. The current trunk files are not allowing the overview page to come up, but then again this is trunk we're talking about... life on the bleeding edge sometimes leads to a paper cut ;).

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FarCry 5.2 + Railo 3.1.0.16 + Resin + Apache + MySQL + CentOS - Part 2

Posted At : July 10, 2009 1:55 AM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: FarCry, Railo, ColdFusion 8.x

Right... part 2. We're going to install Railo in this section. It's going to be a much smaller ride than part 1 ;). But first, some knowledge.

I've learned that:

  • I'm not a fan of CentOS. I prefer the debian distros. Why? I've not really ever had a need to play with SELinux, or IPTables. Why does that matter? Both of these things have caused me grief whilst putting this together as both are enabled by default in both the _64 and i386 builds of 5.3.
  • You must turn off IPTables on each boot of the system. I'm sure there's a way to make this automatic, but I really haven't tracked it down yet. Yes, it would not be an issue if I just set it up... surely this will be a blog posting down the line, but I don't require it for now.
  • I had originally done the write up for part 1 with an _64 build. Everything was great until I got to the point where I needed to build mod_caucho. I could not find a way to successfully build that, and it appeared to be an issue with apsx. I didn't really want to spend my entire day chasing down rabit holes, so I switched to the i386 build. It's at this point that I learned that SELinux was preventing Apache from talking to Caucho. Again, not wanting to chase my tail endlessly, I just disabled SELinux for now.
  • Use PUTTY! I can never get copy/paste to play nice between my VM command line screen and windows. So, I'll just minimize the VM and use PUTTY to terminal (over SSH) into virtual box. In this way, you can also keep several screens up at one time.

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FarCry 5.2 + Railo 3.1.0.16 + Resin + Apache + MySQL + CentOS - Part 1

Posted At : July 8, 2009 4:39 PM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: FarCry, Railo, ColdFusion 8.x

Woah... not such a catchy title, but it's descriptive, non?

This all began as a quest to be able to provide a VPS solution to the lowest bidder situation. Their host provides CentOS machines at a fairly reasonable price, but that price would not include the cost of a ColdFusion license. My framework of choice is FarCry, and lately the Daemonites have taken great strides in keeping the framework compatible with Railo. This is the thorny path towards creating a Linux virtual machine with FarCry, MySQL, Railo, and Apache (oh... and SES URLs).

We'll start by just getting the basics of the system running and in place.

  • Everything I'm doing is as the root user... yes, not cool, but this just development. Typically, you should really use sudo to do all of this.
  • Grab a VMware image of CentOS 5.2. You can find one here: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1309. VMplayer can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
  • Turn off IPTABLES for testing... yes, not the best idea for production, but this is development. I could not figure out why the heck Apache wasn't serving pages outside the local install, and it was the firewall blocking it. In production, you should really turn this feature on. I'm not addressing how to do so for this excercise.

    • /etc/init.d/iptables save
      /etc/init.d/iptables stop
  • Enable RPMforge packages. This will allow us to install phpMyAdmin through yum.
    • http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge (source)
    • Download either i386 or _64 RPM dependant on your OS type version
      • http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
      • http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
    • Import GPG key
      rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
    • Install it (replace the RPM with the name)
      rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
  • We need to install apache (well, not NEED, but we're not using Tomcat here)
    • http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2008/11/12/Installing-ResinRailo-on-CentOS (source)
    • yum install httpd httpd-devel openssl-devel
  • We need to install MySQL
    • http://www.ozzu.com/unix-linux-forum/centos-and-apache-php-mysql-t69484.html (source)
    • vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
    • change enable=1 for centosplus
    • yum install mysql-server mysql
  • I installed PHP/PHPmyadmin - just for DB administration
      yum install php php-mysql phpmyadmin
      cd /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
      vi config.inc.php
    • enter a value in $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '<something>';
    • vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
    • change the allow line to (yes, yes... but this is a test environ) to Allow from all
  • We need to install a JVM... this part just sucks. Unlike other distros, no precompiled version really meets our needs.
    • http://j2eeinaction.blogspot.com/2009/02/install-java-6-on-centos-52.html (source)
    • Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (grab the JDK!). You can browse to a download link and post that into your VM as something like the following
    • wget http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/jdk-6u14-linux-x64-rpm.bin?BundledLineItemUUID=CXFIBe.pePAAAAEioR0Hk1t8&OrderID=CgtIBe.pcWUAAAEilh0Hk1t8&ProductID=tPxIBe.oz2IAAAEhmh0zLjfT&FileName=/jdk-6u14-linux-x64-rpm.bin
    • rename that long ugly file to jdk.rpm.bin
    • mv <stupid long name> jdk.rpm.bin
    • chmod 700 jdk.rpm.bin
      ./jdk.rpm.bin
      /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
  • Start Apache and MySQL at reboot
      /sbin/chkconfig httpd --level 2345 on
      /sbin/chkconfig mysqld --level 2345 on

And that's it. You have Apache serving pages at http://yoursite/ and phpMyAdmin at http://yoursite/phpmyadmin. Next up on the chopping block, adding Railo into the mix.

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