Railo Cookbook

This cookbook installs Railo (right now on tomcat)

Requirements

The cookbook has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, but should work on most platforms where Java 1.6 works.

Platforms

• Ubuntu

Cookbooks

• java
• tomcat

And the dependencies of the java and tomcat cookbooks

Attributes

• node['railo']['app_server'] Type of web application server (currently only tomcat)
• node['railo']['user']['id'] User name
• node['railo']['major_version'] Major version of Railo, default 4
• node['railo']['minor_version'] Minor version of Railo, default 1
• node['railo']['port'] The Railo/Tomcat port, default 8080
• node['railo']['base_installation_directory'] Root directory where the /railo/lib directories will be installed, default /opt
• node['railo']['config_dir'] Full path to the railo configuration directory where the /server and /web directories will be created by Railo, default /var/lib/railo/config

Usage

Just include recipe[railo] in your node's run_list and configure the java and tomcat cookbooks:

{
    "name": "railo-server",
    "description": "A Railo server based on Tomcat",
    "json_class": "Chef::Role",
    "default_attributes": {
        "java": {
            "jdk_version": "7"
        },
        "tomcat": {
            "base_version": "7",
            "deploy_manager_apps": false
        },
        "railo": {
            "major_version": "4",
            "minor_version": "2"
        }
    },
    "override_attributes": {
    },
    "chef_type": "role",
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[railo]"
    ]
}

Running the tests

There is not tests infrastructure setup yet, feel free to start

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request

License & Authors

• Author:: Roland Ringgenberg (roland.ringgenberg@ringgi.net)

Copyright:: RRTechnologies

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