Andrew's Blog » railo http://www.abm.id.au/blog Web Development with ColdFusion and Java Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Railo on JBoss (Multi-site configuration) http://www.abm.id.au/blog/2009/09/10/railo-on-jboss-multi-site-configuration/ http://www.abm.id.au/blog/2009/09/10/railo-on-jboss-multi-site-configuration/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:16:52 +0000 Andrew http://www.abm.id.au/blog/?p=69 Earlier this year Sean Corfield blogged about a “multi-web” install of Railo on Tomcat.

I decided to see if I could set up a similar configuration on JBoss 5.1.0 and was able to do it successfully by following Sean’s steps with a few modifications. These modifications are documented below.

My solution also includes some ideas I learnt from this blog post – http://help.shadocms.com/blog/2009/running-railo-and-adobe-coldfusion-on-the-same-context-root-in-jboss.cfm

Firstly, I took a copy of the jboss “web” instance and named it railo, ie:

copy /server/web to /server/railo

This will become our railo server instance.

NB: is the directory where I installed JBoss – in my case c:/jboss/jboss-5.1.0.GA

Now I started following Sean’s instructions. The first issue I ran into was when I came to edit the conf/catalina.properties file. I could not find the JBoss equivalent (there may be one, but I just couldn’t find it). However I found that by putting the Railo JARs into /server/railo/lib this had the same effect.

Next Sean mentioned editing the Tomcat conf/web.xml file. The corresponding JBoss file to edit is:

/server/railo/deployers/jbossweb.deployer/web.xml

At this point we we can start the server and have a look at the server administrator. To do this (on windows at least) go into the command prompt, cd to and run this command:

bin\run -c railo

Once it starts up, you can then browse to http://localhost:8080/railo-context/admin.cfm to view the Railo Server Administrator.

After confirming it runs, stop it again (I just use CTRL-C to stop the JBoss instances – there may be a cleaner way but I am not aware of it).

The next thing in JBoss that differs from the Tomcat instructions is adding your new host definitions. In Tomcat this is done in conf/server.xml, but in JBoss 5.1.0 it is done in /server/railo/conf/bootstrap/profile.xml.

The change I made to this file is shown below:

<!--
 The profile configuration
 This contains required properties:
 The uri to jboss-service.xml.
 The uri to the deployers folder.
 A list of uris to deploy folders. -->
 <bean name="BootstrapProfileFactory">
 <property name="bindingsURI">${jboss.server.home.url}conf/bindingservice.beans</property>
 <property name="bootstrapURI">${jboss.server.home.url}conf/jboss-service.xml</property>
 <property name="deployersURI">${jboss.server.home.url}deployers</property>
 <property name="applicationURIs">
 <list elementClass="java.net.URI">
 <value>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy</value>
<span style="color: #ff0000;"> <value>file:///C:/www/railo-deploy</value></span>
 </list>
 </property>
 <property name="attachmentStoreRoot">${jboss.server.data.dir}/attachments</property>
 <property name="profileFactory"><inject bean="ProfileFactory" /></property>
 </bean>

Note that this is a URI, so it must include file:/// (this caught me out on my first attempt). How I did this was to create a directory called c:/www/railo-deploy, then in that directory create new directories called web1.war and web2.war

Next (borrowing from the ShadoCMS blog) /server/railo/deploy/jbossweb.sar/server.xml to have two more nodes:

 <Host name="web1.local">
 <Alias>web1.local</Alias>
 </Host>

 <Host name="web2.local">
 <Alias>web2.local</Alias>
 </Host>

The final piece of the puzzle was then to create a web.xml and jboss-web.xml in each of the WEB-INF dirs, ie:

c:/www/railo-deploy/web1.war/WEB-INF/web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
 PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
 <display-name>Web App 1</display-name>
 <description>
 Railo Web 1
 </description>
</web-app>

c:/www/railo-deploy/web1.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/</context-root>
<virtual-host>web1.local</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

c:/www/railo-deploy/web2.war/WEB-INF/web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
 PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
 <display-name>Web App 2</display-name>
 <description>
 Railo Web 2
 </description>
</web-app>

c:/www/railo-deploy/web2.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/</context-root>
<virtual-host>web2.local</virtual-host>
</jboss-web>

All going well you should now have a working multi-web setup in JBoss.

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2009-09-07 20:20:09,354 ERROR [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.JBossContextConfig] (main) XML error parsing: context.xml
org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to create a new SAX parser
at org.jboss.xb.binding.UnmarshallerFactory$UnmarshallerFactoryImpl.newUnmarshaller(UnmarshallerFactory.java:100)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.JBossContextConfig.processContextConfig(JBossContextConfig.java:549)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.JBossContextConfig.init(JBossContextConfig.java:536)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:279)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.init(StandardContext.java:5436)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4148)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeployInternal(TomcatDeployment.java:310)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeploy(TomcatDeployment.java:142)
at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployment.start(AbstractWarDeployment.java:461)
at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.startModule(WebModule.java:118)
at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:97)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:157)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:96)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668)
at org.jboss.system.microcontainer.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProxy.java:206)
at $Proxy38.start(Unknown Source)

One solution (which seems to work perfectly) is to remove the offending jars from <railo_home>/WEB-INF/lib, as described here:

http://coldshen.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/8/2/Running-Railo-3-beta-on-JBoss-5

An alternative solution, is to create a file named jboss-classloading.xml and place this into <railo_home>/WEB-INF.  The contents of the file should be similar to that shown below:

&lt;classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"
name="railo.war"
domain="railo_Domain"
export-all="NON_EMPTY"
import-all="false"&gt;
&lt;/classloading&gt;

More details are available from the JBoss wiki -  http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/useJBossWebClassLoaderinJBoss5

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