In this week decided to install ColdFusion on Linux (Ubuntu) on Amazon EC2. As I am very new to Linux and having very limited knowledge about its command and installation process I have first decided to install it on local machine so choose VirtualBox for installation. After finish with Ubuntu installation my first chalange was how do I share windows directory in guest machine. After bit of googling I found very nice article from Joerg and help me out to work with sharing folder. Although ...

This one is actually part-ii of my first blog “Running multiple tomcat instances with Coldfusion standard version - Part I” but to make it more meaningful I have changed title of this Post.

In previous post we have run single site on two instance of tomcat and on different port. Now time to run both instance under single website URI with load balancing for high availability under Apache server.

Let's install Apache http server using downloaded .msi, to avoid security issue and spacing in path I prefer to install “C:\Apache2.2” [APACHE_HOME] and make sure it is pointing to port 80. Once finish with installing browse URL http://localhost to make sure Apache server is configured and running correctly. To perform load balancing on two tomcat instance download mod_jk. Use Binary releases link and choose your appropriate platform and download file mod_jk-1.2.31-httpd-2.2.3.so. Copy it to APACHE_HOME/modules folder and rename it to mod_jk.so.

Since couple of weeks I was working with Railo and ColdFusion 9 (standard edition) to clustering and load balancing. I have started with Railo as I was new to Railo and keen to work around it. I wrote several post about Railo installation
Installing RAILO Tomcat on windows step by step
Installing RAILO Tomcat on windows step by step - part ii
Running multiple instances of RAILO on tomcat.

Now it turn of ColdFusion for load balancing. I have googled it about but mostly found articles with enterprise edition and it is easy to implement but I want to work with developer/standard edition. Below is step by step instruction to running multiple ColdFusion (standard edition) instances on one computer.

Week ago I wrote blog about " Installing RAILO with Tomcat " this is what I have first time installed RAILO on my PC. After getting success in that I tried to run multiple instances of RAILO for different site and even single site. Below is step by step guide to create multiple instance of RAILO. Note: I assume that reader has already gone through my first blog on installing RAILO on Tomcat. Copy RAILO jar files into tomcat folder under "railojars". Open catalina.properties ...

In part-I I have explained how to configure RAILO with Tomcat where we copied all RAILO jar files into tomcat's lib folder. If you do not want to copy it into lib folder instead keep separate folder for RAILO, that also possible ...

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Installing RAILO with Tomcat apache in window.

1. Download war version of Railo.

2. Download tomcat apache version.

Install tomcat (just extract zipped file) any location (In my case e:/apache). Now extract downloaded Railo's war file using winrar or 7zip in temprory folder.

Now copy all jar files from /WEB-INF/lib of extracted railo's folder and paste to tomcat lib folder (in my case e:/apache/lib). Open web.xml file from railo's /WEB-INF/lib folder and copy all servlet and servlet-mapping node to tomcat/conf/web.xml file. Copy index.cfm, index.cfml welcome-file to tomcat's web.xml file under welcome-file-list tag so it look like ...

I love cfschedule tag to create/update/delete schedule and use one file to create all schedules. This is really help whenever you swich server and require to transfer all schedule task from one server to another one. As we all know Standard coldfusion server doesn't allow export facility and I am using around 25 schedule task to perform different scehdule operation. Whenever I need to add schedule file I add cfschedule tag in my cfm page and run it on server and it works great for me. But once ...