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Mura Analytics Plugin Beta Update
Mura Analytics Plugin Beta Update

An updated beta is available for download.  This beta release brings Microsoft SQL Server support into the plugin.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Mura CMS, Plugin, ColdFusion
Rewriting URLs with Railo (Resin) for Mura CMS

Rewriting URLs to remove index.cfm in Railo (Resin) couldn't be easier. However, when doing this for Mura there are a few extra steps that will need to be taken to ensure an error free experience for your users.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Railo, Resin, URL Rewrite, Mura
Setup Railo Express for Multiple Development Sites

Today I realized that I've been very inefficient when setting up development sites under Railo. In the past, when I needed to setup a new site I would unzip a fresh Railo Express and launch it. This behavior seemed right since it was so similar to how I do my development with Adobe's CF multiserver install. The reason I do this is to have a completely separate CF Admin for each site. It dawned on me this morning that Railo can do this in a single "install". I'll show you how, with minimal effort, you can setup a single Railo Express install you can host multiple sites with unique administrators.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Railo, Resin, ColdFusion, Multiserver
Quotie: A Simple Stock Quote Gadget for Google Wave

I spent some time this week looking at the Google Wave Gadget API.  After building the simple example from the api docs I decided to go ahead and build something powered by ColdFusion that implemented jQuery and was able to maintain state in the blip the gadget was added to.  After a failed attempt at creating a polling gadget I  opted to create a stock quote lookup gadget.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: ColdFusion, Railo, Google Wave, Gadgets, jQuery
Powered by Railo & Mura

Creating and deploying new sites couldn't be easier thanks to Railo and Mura.

About a month ago I was setting up a new site for my church.  Knowing that cost was a factor I opted to let 2host.com provide the VPS at a very low cost and build it all on Railo and Mura.  Once the server was ready the entire setup process only took about an hour to get MySQL, Railo and Mura all setup.  Because of the speed of deployment and how easy it is to setup things like galleries and blogs within Mura I made the decision to move my blog and a couple other sites to a consolidated interface with Mura and Railo running under the hood.

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Tags: ColdFusion, Mura, Railo