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• Fast start with Lucee and Apache web server

  Posted in November 07, 2015 - Folder: Lucee Minute - Tags: lucee, setup, apache, tomcat

  After system reinstall, I had to quickly rebuild development environment with Lucee and Apache (or nginx web server). Small cheat-sheet on configuring web servers with Railo.

  0. No web server front

  Railo on top of Tomcat has its own web server built-in, and it listens to port 8888 by default - if accessed with browser directly, Tomcat will answer without need of Apache HTTPD or other web server at all.

  1. Classics: using mod_jk

  Use Apache 2.4 binaries from Apache Lounge and install mod_jk.

  2. Forwarding to AJP port 

  We can get rid of mod_jk, and use mod_rewrite for URL tweaking and sending CFML requests to Railo

  2.1 Forward to built-in web server

  Instead of forwarding to AJP port, we can forward to built-in web server directly:

  3. Using Railo with nginx front

  If you feel comfortable with nginx for serving static files, here's config to forward CFML requests to Railo. Works perfectly.