I thought it might be a good idea to post a complete install-howto for lucee4.5/centos7/tomcat8/jdk8/nginx/samba.
I hope it helps some people to get started with lucee AND maybe get a better idea how each of the components work.
At the end of this howto you will have a 2,5GB small virtual machine ready for developing.
we dont go for securtiy here its a “quick” howto to get a clean lucee installation. lets call it a dev-machine. for security rtfm 
- Installing minimal CentOS 7
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Download CentOS 7 Minimal-ISO (http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso)
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create an VM or install on a physical machine with at least 4GB RAM 1-4 cores (i took 4 cores and this must be set later in nginx.conf (worker_processes 4;)
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CentOS 7 comes with an step-by-step-installer, some notes about the installer:
a) there is only one language in the IT-business - stick to english
b) set Date/timezone correctly, enable network time
c) set your Keyboard language
d) leave the software selection untouched
e) check the partition layout as most of your harddisk will be in /home else (webroot in home would be ok too for a dev-server)
f) configure ntwork, set eth0 ON, set hostname, configure IPv4 manual with an IP, netmask gateway, dns and search domain if wanted/needed
g) begin installation and while you wait set the root user password
- Installing the Software Stack (Samba, nginx, tomcat8, JDK8, Lucee)
- ssh into your new server (f.e. with winscp in combination with putty, putty can be integrated in winscp, if you are a windows guy)
- yum install -y epel-release
- yum install -y unzip samba samba-client samba-common htop nginx nano
- yum update -y
- systemctl enable nginx
- systemctl enable smb.service
- systemctl enable nmb.service
- mkdir /home/wwwroot
- rm -rf /opt/tomcat/webapps/docs
- rm -rf /opt/tomcat/webapps/examples
- rm -rf /opt/tomcat/webapps/manager
- rm -rf /opt/tomcat/webapps/host-manager
- mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak
- nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
paste these lines into smb.conf and change the netbios name to your hostname
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
netbios name = yourhostname
security = user
map to guest = bad user
dns proxy = no
#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[wwwroot]
path = /home/wwwroot
browsable =yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
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nano /etc/selinux/config
a) change: SELINUX=enforcing → SELINUX=disabled -
download and install JDK8 u77 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html)
for 64bit download this: Linux x64 152.76 MB jdk-8u77-linux-x64.rpm
copy it to your server or download it directly on the server into /opt or wherever
a) yum localinstall -y /opt/jdk-8u77-linux-x64.rpm
c) rm -f /opt/jdk-8u77-linux-x64.rpm -
download and install tomcat 8.0.32 (Apache Tomcat® - Apache Tomcat 8 Software Downloads)
we want the core-version with .tar.gz: http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.32/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.32.tar.gz
copy it to your server or download it directly on the server into /opt or wherever
a) mkdir /opt/tomcat
b) tar xvf /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.32.tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat --strip-components=1
c) rm -f /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.32.tar.gz
d) nano /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.servicepaste this into tomcat.service:
Systemd unit file for tomcat
[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_77
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
User=root
Group=root
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
e) systemctl daemon-reload
f) systemctl enable tomcat
g) nano /opt/tomcat/conf/context.xml
<!-- (remove this line)
<Manager pathname="" />
--> (remove this line)
h) nano /opt/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh
paste this into setenv.sh (optimized for CONTENS CMS Version 4 and JDK8) or set your own JAVA-OPTS here:
#! /bin/sh
==================================================================
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -server”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -Xms2048m”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -Xmx2048m”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -Xss256k”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:+UseG1GC”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=70”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:G1ReservePercent=15”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:ParallelGCThreads=20”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:ConcGCThreads=5”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -XX:+AggressiveOpts”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom”
export CATALINA_OPTS=“$CATALINA_OPTS -javaagent:/opt/tomcat/lucee/lucee-inst.jar”
Check for application specific parameters at startup
if [ -r “$CATALINA_BASE/bin/appenv.sh” ]; then
. “$CATALINA_BASE/bin/appenv.sh”
fi
echo “Using CATALINA_OPTS:”
for arg in $CATALINA_OPTS
do
echo ">> " $arg
done
echo “”
echo “Using JAVA_OPTS:”
for arg in $JAVA_OPTS
do
echo ">> " $arg
done
echo “_______________________________________________”
echo “”
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download and install lucee 4.5 (Download Lucee)
we will use just the jars-download: http://cdn.lucee.org/lucee-4.5.2.018-jars.zip
copy it to your server or download it directly on the server into /opt or wherevera) mkdir /opt/tomcat/lucee b) unzip /opt/lucee-4.5.2.018-jars.zip -d /opt/tomcat/lucee c) rm -f /opt/lucee-4.5.2.018-jars.zip -
configure tomcat (server.xml, web.xml and catalina.properties)
a) nano /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml (change the hostname to whatever tomcat should listen to and change the docbase to your webroot) paste these 3 lines nearly at the end before </Engine>
b) nano /opt/tomcat/conf/web.xml
paste the following lines at line 24 (its not so important where exactly)
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<!-- Lucee CFML Servlet - this is the main Lucee servlet -->
<!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>GlobalCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<description>CFML runtime Engine</description>
<servlet-class>lucee.loader.servlet.CFMLServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>lucee-web-directory</param-name>
<param-value>/opt/tomcat/lucee-web/{web-context-label}</param-value>
<description>Lucee Web Directory</description>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>lucee-server-directory</param-name>
<param-value>/opt/tomcat/</param-value>
<description>Directory where Lucee server root is stored</description>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>GlobalCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.cfm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>GlobalCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.cfml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>GlobalCFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.cfc</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- ===================================================================== -->
<!-- Lucee REST Servlet - handles Lucee's RESTful web services -->
<!-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -->
<servlet id="RESTServlet">
<description>Lucee Servlet for RESTful services</description>
<servlet-name>RESTServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>lucee.loader.servlet.RestServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>4</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>RESTServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
c) nano /opt/tomcat/conf/catalina.properties
add this to the common.loader= line ,"/opt/tomcat/lucee/","/opt/tomcat/lucee/*.jar"
the complete line should look like this now:
common.loader=“${catalina.base}/lib”,“${catalina.base}/lib/.jar",“${catalina.home}/lib”,"${catalina.home}/lib/.jar”,“/opt/tomcat/lucee/”,“/opt/tomcat/lucee/*.jar”
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configure nginx (nginx.conf and the yourserver.conf)
a) nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf just replace the content of nginx.conf with these lines
For more information on configuration, see:
* Official English Documentation: nginx documentation
* Official Russian Documentation: nginx: документация
user root;
worker_processes 4;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
multi_accept on;
use epoll;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] “$request” ’
'$status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” ’
‘“$http_user_agent” “$http_x_forwarded_for”’;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
b) nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/yourserver.conf
paste these lines into the new file and save it and please change the hostname hmkay ?
server {
listen 80;
server_name srv-lucee;
root /home/wwwroot;
autoindex on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/host.access.log main;
## Size Limits
client_body_buffer_size 128K;
client_header_buffer_size 128K;
client_max_body_size 1M;
large_client_header_buffers 1 1k;
## Timeouts
client_body_timeout 60;
client_header_timeout 60;
#expires 24h;
keepalive_timeout 60 60;
## Proxy Timeouts
proxy_connect_timeout 1200;
proxy_send_timeout 1200;
proxy_read_timeout 1200;
send_timeout 1200;
## General Options
ignore_invalid_headers on;
keepalive_requests 100;
recursive_error_pages on;
sendfile off;
server_name_in_redirect off;
server_tokens off;
## TCP options
tcp_nodelay on;
tcp_nopush on;
## Compression
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_min_length 0;
gzip_types text/plain text/css image/x-icon application/x-perl application/x-httpd-cgi;
gzip_vary on;
location / {
root /home/wwwroot;
index index.cfm index.html index.htm;
autoindex on;
}
# Main Lucee proxy handler
location ~ \.(cfm|cfc)(.*)$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
- are you still with me ?
congrats you made it so far and you didnt scream for an installer. now you know what components are needed to run lucee and you’ve set it up yourself. thats a good base.
please reboot your server now.
type “reboot”
if everything was done correctly (i hope you added the hostname to your hostfile) you should now be able to login to lucee server for the first time
http://yourhostname/lucee/admin/server.cfm
http://yourhostname/lucee/admin/web.cfm
dont forget to give the lucee server and the lucee web a password.
you can also access your webroot now: \yourhostname\wwwroot
if you run into problems please let me know.
some command you might need in the future:
service tomcat start/stop/status
service nginx start/stop/status
log-file locations:
/opt/tomcat/logs
/var/log/nginx
/opt/tomcat/lucee-server/…
/opt/tomcat/lucee-web/…
cheers
michael heel
CONTENS Software GmbH
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