I will start my CFML introductory series with installation.
Obviously, you need to have a CFML engine installed in order to be able
to run CFML applications locally.
As some you know, I’ve been using Railo a
lot recently. Reason being it’s now completely free and open source,
hence no hassle with licenses on my server. I could go through the
whole process of installing every single CFML engine here, but as the
documentation for ColdFusion Server
for example is really complete, I thought I should start with something
less documented, so I can add up to the number of resources over the
web.
Continue reading about CFML 101 – ColdFusion for beginners – Railo Installation
I’ve recently been playing with Google apps for domains, where it lets you
create Gmail based emails for your domain. Basically you can configure Google
apps to manage your domain’s email therefore saving a few things. The first few
that spring to mind are:
- the effort to configure a mail server properly;
- the money you will save, for such a great engine;
- all the bandwidth (believe me, this this thing is expensive);
- space on your server;
- memory and processing;
Continue reading about Full Google Mail / SMTP power for your domain
Continuing with my Apache series, I’ll be today talking about cache control.
According to Wikipedia, the definition for cache is:
“a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or
computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing
to longer access time)
or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache. In other
words, a cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed
data can be stored for rapid access. Once the data is stored in the
cache, it can be used in the future by accessing the cached copy rather
than re-fetching or recomputing the original data.”
We are going to be using two different modules here mod_expires and mod_headers. They handle cache control through http headers sent from the webserver.
I’m going to start a server configuration series here, where I’ll be
talking about my goals and frustrations when configuring my own
webserver. As most of you know, I’ve been using my own VPS for the last two weeks, and promised to post everything about it here.
I won’t be covering things like basic installation, or server
set-up. there’s tons of them all over the web, and I ‘m sure most of
them would beat anything I wrote here, as some of those guys are real
*nix gurus, while I’m only a learner.
On this post, I’ll be talking a little bit more about Apache2, and it’s configurations; to start with, I’ll talk about file compression.
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