Testing code on multiple CFML engines

Hi all,

I know I’ve seen this somewhere but I can’t find it now. I have a need to
test code against ACF, Railo, and Lucee because I have to prove that the
code will work as expected on all three. Currently we have a production
server with ACF9.01, a development server with Railo 4.2.1.008, and I’m
trying to get approval for the next production server to be on Lucee.

All that being said, does someone have a tutorial on installing ACF, Railo,
and Lucee on the same machine and having them all use the same CFML
codebase? Currently the machine I want to do this on had Railo 4.2.1.008,
IIS, and Windows 7 64 bit. I have no issues with switching to Apache for
the webserver if needed. What I was hoping to do in the end is use
host-headers so I could test. For example; local-railo.mysite.com,
local-acf.mysite.com, local-lucee.mysite.com

If anyone can point me to a tutorial for installing them side by side it
would be appreciated.

Also, if this is a double post, I apologize. I lost my internet connection
the first time I was trying to post this.

Thanks,
Steve

Hmmm, no tutorial, but here’s a piece you might need:

What I do is use the built-in webservers on each and then change the
location of the webroot. If you wanted to use a local url for each, then
take a look here toward the bottom in the Configure the Sites section:

http://www.rendered-dreams.com/blog/2014/3/24/Deep-Dive-Multiple-sites-one-Railo-one-Tomcat

Changing the webroot on Railo or Lucee is simply a matter of setting the
docBase on the Context tag within your host declaration within server.xml

… also shown in the above tutorial.

The only thing you’ll need to do is ensure Railo and Lucee are running on
different ports. The port setting you need is also in server.xml, it looks
like this:

You need the one with *protocol=“HTTP/1.1” *and then of course you’d access
this server via *localhost:8888/ *or url.local:8888/

Personally, I wouldn’t mess with Apache or ISS locally - one less layer to
configure.

One other thing. ACF sessions can fail if you hit both ACF and Railo or
Lucee in the same browser from the same url, which would be the case if you
simply use localhost:port/site1, localhost:port/site2, etc. In case
sessions stop working on ACF, you’ll need to clear the localhost cookies.
To avoid this problem, I use a different browser for ACF.

No, wait, there’s one more thing … if you really need to avoid port
numbers in your local urls, then use Nginx as your local webserver. The
reverse proxy setup is very easy to configure for multiple engines. See
here:

Hope that helps …On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Steven Durette <@Steven_Durette> wrote:

Hi all,

I know I’ve seen this somewhere but I can’t find it now. I have a need to
test code against ACF, Railo, and Lucee because I have to prove that the
code will work as expected on all three. Currently we have a production
server with ACF9.01, a development server with Railo 4.2.1.008, and I’m
trying to get approval for the next production server to be on Lucee.

All that being said, does someone have a tutorial on installing ACF,
Railo, and Lucee on the same machine and having them all use the same CFML
codebase? Currently the machine I want to do this on had Railo 4.2.1.008,
IIS, and Windows 7 64 bit. I have no issues with switching to Apache for
the webserver if needed. What I was hoping to do in the end is use
host-headers so I could test. For example; local-railo.mysite.com,
local-acf.mysite.com, local-lucee.mysite.com

If anyone can point me to a tutorial for installing them side by side it
would be appreciated.

Also, if this is a double post, I apologize. I lost my internet
connection the first time I was trying to post this.

Thanks,
Steve


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In my experience, the WEB-INF folders of railo and lucee can co-exist in
the same location (as long as both engines are run under the same user). On
ACF, you an alias in the Context tag to set the location of the WEB-INF as
I explain in my blog post.

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skype: ariamediaOn Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Dan Skaggs <@Dan_Skaggs> wrote:

You also might be able to accomplish this by deploying a WAR of each
engine into Tomcat, setting Tomcat to keep its WEB-INF folder in a separate
location (rather than in the root of the site files) and then configuring 3
different Apache VHOSTS that all use the same document root, but proxy to
the different engines.

On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Nando Breiter <@Nando_Breiter> wrote:

Hmmm, no tutorial, but here’s a piece you might need:

Change Location of ColdFusion Webroot - Nando @ Aria Media

What I do is use the built-in webservers on each and then change the
location of the webroot. If you wanted to use a local url for each, then
take a look here toward the bottom in the Configure the Sites section:

http://www.rendered-dreams.com/blog/2014/3/24/Deep-Dive-Multiple-sites-one-Railo-one-Tomcat

Changing the webroot on Railo or Lucee is simply a matter of setting the
docBase on the Context tag within your host declaration within server.xml

… also shown in the above tutorial.

The only thing you’ll need to do is ensure Railo and Lucee are running on
different ports. The port setting you need is also in server.xml, it looks
like this:

You need the one with *protocol=“HTTP/1.1” *and then of course you’d
access this server via *localhost:8888/ *or url.local:8888/

Personally, I wouldn’t mess with Apache or ISS locally - one less layer to
configure.

One other thing. ACF sessions can fail if you hit both ACF and Railo or
Lucee in the same browser from the same url, which would be the case if you
simply use localhost:port/site1, localhost:port/site2, etc. In case
sessions stop working on ACF, you’ll need to clear the localhost cookies.
To avoid this problem, I use a different browser for ACF.

No, wait, there’s one more thing … if you really need to avoid port
numbers in your local urls, then use Nginx as your local webserver. The
reverse proxy setup is very easy to configure for multiple engines. See
here:

Using Nginx With ColdFusion or Lucee - Nando @ Aria Media

Hope that helps …

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Steven Durette <@Steven_Durette> wrote:

Hi all,

I know I’ve seen this somewhere but I can’t find it now. I have a need
to test code against ACF, Railo, and Lucee because I have to prove that the
code will work as expected on all three. Currently we have a production
server with ACF9.01, a development server with Railo 4.2.1.008, and I’m
trying to get approval for the next production server to be on Lucee.

All that being said, does someone have a tutorial on installing ACF,
Railo, and Lucee on the same machine and having them all use the same CFML
codebase? Currently the machine I want to do this on had Railo 4.2.1.008,
IIS, and Windows 7 64 bit. I have no issues with switching to Apache for
the webserver if needed. What I was hoping to do in the end is use
host-headers so I could test. For example; local-railo.mysite.com,
local-acf.mysite.com, local-lucee.mysite.com

If anyone can point me to a tutorial for installing them side by side it
would be appreciated.

Also, if this is a double post, I apologize. I lost my internet
connection the first time I was trying to post this.

Thanks,
Steve


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I have found the better solution is to create a network drive, share it
(technology does not really matter)

Next mount / link all your engine servers so they can see the network drive
I would suggest its one off your root, so your Web-INF or other files get
stored locally on the engine server, where as the mounted directory is pure
code

thats it. I would use virtual machines as its easy to spin up new servers
as needed.

And if you are running any code that does file creation, deletion or edits,
you need to make the permissions as universal as possible for your test
environments. This wills ave you hours of wondering why it works on X&Y
but not Z.On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 9:47:29 AM UTC-4, Steven Durette wrote:

Hi all,

I know I’ve seen this somewhere but I can’t find it now. I have a need to
test code against ACF, Railo, and Lucee because I have to prove that the
code will work as expected on all three. Currently we have a production
server with ACF9.01, a development server with Railo 4.2.1.008, and I’m
trying to get approval for the next production server to be on Lucee.

All that being said, does someone have a tutorial on installing ACF,
Railo, and Lucee on the same machine and having them all use the same CFML
codebase? Currently the machine I want to do this on had Railo 4.2.1.008,
IIS, and Windows 7 64 bit. I have no issues with switching to Apache for
the webserver if needed. What I was hoping to do in the end is use
host-headers so I could test. For example; local-railo.mysite.com,
local-acf.mysite.com, local-lucee.mysite.com

If anyone can point me to a tutorial for installing them side by side it
would be appreciated.

Also, if this is a double post, I apologize. I lost my internet
connection the first time I was trying to post this.

Thanks,
Steve

There is a clever chap named Singgih who wrote automated tests for the
CFWheels framework on all CFML engines using Maven and travis-ci…

http://blog.sidic.net/2014/06/how-to-test-cfwheels-app-step-by-step.html
https://github.com/scahyono/cfwheels-ci-demoOn Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 1:23:53 AM UTC+10, Terry Whitney wrote:

I have found the better solution is to create a network drive, share it
(technology does not really matter)

Next mount / link all your engine servers so they can see the network drive
I would suggest its one off your root, so your Web-INF or other files get
stored locally on the engine server, where as the mounted directory is pure
code

thats it. I would use virtual machines as its easy to spin up new servers
as needed.

And if you are running any code that does file creation, deletion or
edits, you need to make the permissions as universal as possible for your
test environments. This wills ave you hours of wondering why it works on
X&Y but not Z.

On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 9:47:29 AM UTC-4, Steven Durette wrote:

Hi all,

I know I’ve seen this somewhere but I can’t find it now. I have a need
to test code against ACF, Railo, and Lucee because I have to prove that the
code will work as expected on all three. Currently we have a production
server with ACF9.01, a development server with Railo 4.2.1.008, and I’m
trying to get approval for the next production server to be on Lucee.

All that being said, does someone have a tutorial on installing ACF,
Railo, and Lucee on the same machine and having them all use the same CFML
codebase? Currently the machine I want to do this on had Railo 4.2.1.008,
IIS, and Windows 7 64 bit. I have no issues with switching to Apache for
the webserver if needed. What I was hoping to do in the end is use
host-headers so I could test. For example; local-railo.mysite.com,
local-acf.mysite.com, local-lucee.mysite.com

If anyone can point me to a tutorial for installing them side by side it
would be appreciated.

Also, if this is a double post, I apologize. I lost my internet
connection the first time I was trying to post this.

Thanks,
Steve