Railo and Tomcat - where is the root directory

Question

I installed TurnKey Tomcat and deployed WARO WAR. The www directory by default does not seem to recognize .cfm files, but note that 192.168.91.128/railo uses the .cfm file. The role of Railo and Tomcat is expansion dependent. Where do I need to deploy .cfm files or how can I change www to work with .cfm?

Answer 1

Tomcat does not support ColdFusion by default because it is not part of the Java EE specification. If you want to deploy cfm files to Tomcat, you need to install ColdFusion first. I found the following links:

• http://www.andyallan.com/blog/post.cfm/installing-an-configuring-coldfusion-9-01-on-tomcat-7
• http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/j2ee/phase2-tomcat-deploy.html

Please check the version of ColdFuion you need.

EDIT:

Obviously you have Railo (ColdFusion Engine) installed, I suggest you read the documentation at http://www.getrailo.org/ . From this site I found the following:

First, it’s important to know what architecture in Railo is than in other CFML engines. In a Railo configuration, it can be either at the web context level or the global context. Now what is web context?

What is web context? A web context is a secure area provided by an application server (and NOT a web server). The web context defined by the entry in the corresponding application server configuration file. These files differ from application server to application server. In Resin, for example, this file is called resin.conf or resin.xml, while in Tomcat it is called server.xml. Please check the appropriate documentation for your application server to see how to define these web contexts.

The fact that you are defining new web contexts on the application server is the reason that any definition of a new web site on the web server can only be determined differently based on the web context if you have mirrored the web server configuration on application server using virtual host definitions.