Railo 3.0 released - Part II.5 - Railo EC² image available

September 19, 2008 · By Gert Franz · 7 Comments

With the release of Railo 3.0 we have built a Amazon EC² image which allows you to create your own running instance of it.It runs on top of CentOS 5 and is bundled with Caucho Resin which runs on port 80. We have installed Mango Blog and Sava CMS so that you can start right away and generate your own private content. In addition we have already installed a MySQL 5 database server. You can use a Railo specific version of the DBExplorer by Ray Camden in order to browse through the data.

Read more about the Railo image by visiting our own running instance. If you want to create an own instance of this public Amazon Image you need something like the FireFox plugin Elasticfox. Read more about the Amazon webservices.

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Tags: Amazon Services · Features · New release · Railo 3.0 · Release

7 responses so far ↓

1 Gert Franz // Sep 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM

If the above link to our running image should not work, try the direct IP address of the Railo image: http://75.101.249.58/
2 hungry // Sep 22, 2008 at 9:58 PM

both links giving error
3 Gert Franz // Sep 23, 2008 at 12:26 AM

sorry about that, but the DNS update took longer than we assumed. I updated the software on the machine and we were offline for 30 minutes. Have fun with Railo...
Gert
4 Gert Franz // Sep 24, 2008 at 4:12 PM

One thing that has occurred with the EC² instance. The captcha in the "add comment" section does not work. It is something that happens due to an incompatibility of the toString() method of Railo in comparison to CF8. We have fixed that and the patch 3.0.0.007 is available on preview.railo.ch. Just enter the url in the update location field in the server administrator and execute the update.

Have fun

Gert
5 mike // Sep 26, 2008 at 1:57 PM

Gert -
I created an account, and using ElasticFox, I was able to create an instance of your "image" and actually booted the Mango Blog there. (I was not able to fully boot the SAVA cms) -- my next question, can you recommend a resource for learning more about EC2 -- have you found a site or book you highly recommend? I'd rather get started in the right direction, instead of making a bunch of rookie mistakes.
Thank you for making this as easy as possible.
- Mike
6 Gert Franz // Sep 30, 2008 at 2:25 PM

In fact Amazon is the perfect resource for it. Just go to amazonaws.com and they tell you what you need to do. I suppose there are several howto tutorials out there and on Amazon as well. My best resource is my SysAdmin who knows almost everything (at least when it comes to configuring servers) :-).
7 Jeff Gladnick // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:44 AM

Has this been updated to reflect the 3.1 Open source release?

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