Enabling Railo on a domain using Tomcat (VPS/Dedicated Only)

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IF you have a dedicated server or a VPS with Railo installed and want to add more domains / instances to the Railo service please follow these steps:

SFTP or SSH into your server. Most people find it is easier to use a program such as FileZilla and SFTP (Secure) into the server to edit files

Go to the directory: /opt/railo/tomcat/conf (This is the default install directory we run on servers for Railo)

Download / Edit the file: server.xml

Go to the line where it has commented code and has: HOST ENTRY TEMPLATE

Enter new lines after the commented code with the following replacing domain.com with your domain and the docBase with the path on your server to your public_html or wwwroot or httpdocs:

<Host name="domain.com" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
<Context path="" docBase="/home/username/domain.com" />
<Alias>www.domain.com</Alias>
</Host>

Once done upload and overwrite the old file, you may wish to take a backup before uploading over the current server.xml file

Now you need to restart Railo, you can restart the service by SSH'ing into your server and running the following command:

/etc/init.d/railo_ctl restart

Allow a up to 30 seconds for the service to restart and then try going to your Railo web administrator example below:

http://www.domain.com/railo-context/admin/web.cfm

Finished, you can now set a password for your web administrator and start using CFML on that domain name.

If you need one of our team to do this for you we are always happy to.

*NOTE: Make sure not to have duplicates of the same hosts entry in your server.xml file as this will cause Railo not to start.

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