Railo upgrade question

Russ Michaels

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Jul 17, 2015, 1:42:04 PM7/17/15

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Hey chaps,

not got around to upgrading any of my Railo systems yet, but am about to do cfmldeveloper.com

Now this is using a custom Helicon Zoo setup which I am getting rid of, so I really need to just do a clean installation. So my question is, will this cause any problem for the existing Railo sites. Obviously all their settings are stored in their local web-inf folder, so I am hoping most folks won't even notice, but saying that, I have on occasion re-installed Railo and found that sites no longer worked unless I deleted the WEB-INF folder from sites and let it get re-created, I never did find out why though.

Andrew Dixon

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Jul 17, 2015, 4:38:18 PM7/17/15

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Hi Russ,

I'm pretty sure if you do a fresh install it will not migrate the settings over. I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure that is the case. I think it only migrates the settings if you do the JAR replacement method.

Kind regards,

Andrew

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Terry Bankert

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Jul 17, 2015, 4:53:41 PM7/17/15

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I don't know that's necessarily true, I recently attempted the upgrade method on one of my dev servers and it went horribly wrong. Ended up having to do a clean install, and even those folders that weren't already swapped out in the railo to lucee upgrade maintained their previous settings from railo.

Russ Michaels

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Jul 17, 2015, 5:03:35 PM7/17/15

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well thankfully I do maintain complete server backups even of cfmldeveloper, so I can roll it back if it all goes wrong :-)

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Russ Michaels

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Jul 19, 2015, 3:55:47 PM7/19/15

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Well sadly this did not go too well.

I did a new install of Lucee, which all went without error, and I can access lucee on port 8888, but when accessing any sites through IIS all I get is a blank page, yes detailed logging is enabled in IIS.

No errors in tomcat log, or boncode log, mod_cfml log or IIS event log.

I have reinstalled boncode for good measure, and downloaded the latest copy from the site and yes logging is enabled.

any suggestions ?

Brad Wood

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Jul 20, 2015, 11:00:12 AM7/20/15

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Russ, since I'm not sure if you saw my reply on Twitter- I have gotten a blank page before when Tomcat hasn't match a host. Specifically, if you have a default host specified at the engine, but the name doesn't match any of the defined hosts, you'll get the blank page.

Can you confirm the HTTP or AJP ports that your connecting to? Also, what happens when you hit Tomcat's port directly-- does that work?

Thanks!

~Brad

Russ Michaels

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Jul 20, 2015, 11:48:35 AM7/20/15

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Brad,

it is running on standard AJP port 8009

yes it works fine over tomcat port 8888

the host files is created in the catalina folder

I have tried adding a manual host entry rather than rely on mod_cfml and that doesn't help either

it even gives blank page for localhost as well.

bizzare that there are no log entries being created anywhere.

I do recall having this issue with Railo before as well, but don't recall if I ever solved it.

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Bilal

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Jul 20, 2015, 12:18:24 PM7/20/15

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Russ,

you might get a blank page if you use shared keys and they happen to be different on both ends. There are two different types (RequestSecret and ModCFMLSecret).

Just to check on a few things:

a) This server was blank before? If not you used uninstall to remove Railo?

b) You get a response on 8888 port (the tomcat web port)?

c) You get a response when making a connector version request on server? E.g. http://localhost/a.cfm?BonCodeConnectorVersion=true

-Bilal

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Jul 20, 2015, 1:43:27 PM7/20/15

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Hi,

a) it had railo on it before, which I just shutdown prior to installing lucee, and then uninstalled it, and reinstalled connector in case there was a conflict.

b) as as i said, works fine on port 8888

3) yes I get

BonCodeAJP Connector Version 1.0.25

using setting file in C:\Windows\BonCodeAJP13.settings

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Bilal

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Jul 20, 2015, 7:28:39 PM7/20/15

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Thanks for checking.

Can you share here or via email to me the server.xml (in lucee install dir) and BonCode setting file (in c:\windows)

-Bilal

Russ Michaels

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Jul 20, 2015, 7:35:29 PM7/20/15

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sure. I have compared them against working lucee installs, and they look the same to me.

boncode settings

=============

<Server>localhost</Server>

<ForceSecureSession>False</ForceSecureSession>

<AllowEmptyHeaders>False</AllowEmptyHeaders>

</Settings>

server.xml

=============

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<!--

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more

contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with

this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0

(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with

the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

limitations under the License.

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<!-- Note: A "Server" is not itself a "Container", so you may not

define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level.

Documentation at /docs/config/server.html

-->

<!-- Security listener. Documentation at /docs/config/listeners.html

-->

<!-- Global JNDI resources

Documentation at /docs/jndi-resources-howto.html

-->

<!-- Editable user database that can also be used by

UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users

-->

<!-- <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"

type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"

description="User database that can be updated and saved"

factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"

pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />

-->

<!-- A "Service" is a collection of one or more "Connectors" that share

a single "Container" Note: A "Service" is not itself a "Container",

so you may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level.

Documentation at /docs/config/service.html

-->

<!--

<Executor name="tomcatThreadPool" namePrefix="catalina-exec-"

maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="4"/>

-->

<!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received

and responses are returned. Documentation at :

Java HTTP Connector: /docs/config/http.html (blocking & non-blocking)

Java AJP Connector: /docs/config/ajp.html

APR (HTTP/AJP) Connector: /docs/apr.html

Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080

-->

<Connector port="8888" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

connectionTimeout="20000"

redirectPort="8443" />

<!--

<Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool"

port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

connectionTimeout="20000"

redirectPort="8443" />

-->

<!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443

This connector uses the JSSE configuration, when using APR, the

connector should be using the OpenSSL style configuration

described in the APR documentation -->

<!--

<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"

maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"

clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />

-->

<!-- An Engine represents the entry point (within Catalina) that processes

every request. The Engine implementation for Tomcat stand alone

analyzes the HTTP headers included with the request, and passes them

on to the appropriate Host (virtual host).

Documentation at /docs/config/engine.html -->

<!-- You should set jvmRoute to support load-balancing via AJP ie :

-->

<!--For clustering, please take a look at documentation at:

/docs/cluster-howto.html (simple how to)

/docs/config/cluster.html (reference documentation) -->

<!--

-->

<!-- Use the LockOutRealm to prevent attempts to guess user passwords

via a brute-force attack -->

<!-- This Realm uses the UserDatabase configured in the global JNDI

resources under the key "UserDatabase". Any edits

that are performed against this UserDatabase are immediately

available for use by the Realm. -->

<!-- <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"

resourceName="UserDatabase"/>

</Realm> -->

<Host name="127.0.0.1" appBase="webapps"

unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="false">

<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications

Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->

<!--

-->

<!-- Access log processes all example.

Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html

Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"

prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"

pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" resolveHosts="false"/>

<Valve className="mod_cfml.core"

loggingEnabled="false"

waitForContext="3"

maxContexts="200"

timeBetweenContexts="30000"

/>

</Host>

</Host>

<!--

Add additional VIRTUALHOSTS by copying the following example config:

REPLACE:

[ENTER DOMAIN NAME] with a domain, IE: "mysite.com"

[ENTER SYSTEM PATH] with your web site's base directory. IE: /home/user/public_html/ or C:\websites\www.mysite.com\ etc...

[ENTER DOMAIN ALIAS] with any domain that also points to this same site/directory. You can repeat this tag as often as needed.

Don't forget to remove comments!

-->

<!--

EXAMPLE HOST ENTRY:

<Alias>www.lucee.org</Alias>

<Alias>my.lucee.org</Alias>

</Host>

HOST ENTRY TEMPLATE:

<Alias>[ENTER DOMAIN ALIAS]</Alias>

</Host>

-->

</Engine>

</Service>

</Server>

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Russ Michaels

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Jul 29, 2015, 12:44:28 PM7/29/15

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Hi,

any ideas ?

Russ Michaels

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Aug 10, 2015, 7:49:38 PM8/10/15

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I found the cause of the problem if anyone is interested.
It was the content compression setting in Lucee, I have outgoing rules setup in URL rewrite, and outgoing rules do not work with gzip content compression enabled.
I had actually thought of this before and had disabled this, but it turns out that you also have to restart lucee if you disable this setting as well as it doesn't pickup the change.
I found this out by enabling the level 4 logging in boncode, which showed that gzip was still enabled even though it was disabled in the lucee admin.

Quite a mystery this one as there were no other logs anywhere else showing me what the problem was.

HTH

Russ

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Aug 10, 2015, 9:01:13 PM8/10/15

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Just a little heads up, misspelled word website,

I have now installed LUCEE and it is set as the default CFML engine. So any new webiste created in WebsitePanel will have Lucee enabled by default, no other steps are required.

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