Railo updated to latest build
We updated our Railo 3.1 build today to the latest release. You can read the release notes of this build to get more information about the changes implemented in this release.
Automatic Sub Domain Creation
For those of you who have wanted to sign up for hosting but didn’t have a domain name to use, you know that we allow you to use a sub domain off our ALURIUM.NET domain name. A fully qualified domain name is required because our Railo integration requires that a fully qualified domain name be use to map the host header to the directory path of the account.
Well, up until now you had to ask us to set this up for you because there was no way to automatically test to see if a sub domain name was available for use. Today we released a module that allows you to test the availability of a subdomain in the order form and use an available sub domain and have it provision automatically.
To use a sub domain simply begin by selecting the hosting plan you wish to use. When adding a domain to the account use the ALURIUM.NET drop down from the TLD list and type in a sub name you would like to use.
After you have made entered the sub domain name you wish to use and selected ALURIUM.NET from the drop down menu, click on the check domain link to see if the name you have selected is available. If the sub domain name is already in use by another client you will see the following message.
Otherwise, if the sub domain name is available, you will see the following message with a button allowing you to add the domain to your hosting account.
That is all there is to it. When you submit your order your account will provision automatically and you will have full access to the hosting resources provided by the account level you selected.
FREE Trial Railo Hosting
We just announced and release our Trial accounts. The best thing about them is that they are absolutely free. It is a 60 day account that gives you limited disk space and bandwidth but full access to the Railo Administrator so you can test and play with our Railo hosting offerings. If you decide you like the service you can upgrade to a paid account and all of your setting carry forward to the new account.
Why are we doing this? Well we want to lower or completely eliminate the barrier to entry. We want everyone to be able to test our services without feeling presured to sign a lenghty contract. Besides you wont know how good we are until you try us out.
Enable Directory Listing in Railo running on Resin
Automatically generated directory listings are not what you probably want to have enabled on a production server, but for a development box they do come in handy. If you are running Railo server edition packaged with Resin you may be wondering how to enable Directory Listings on your development box. That is the subject of this post. By default Resin comes pre-configured to enable directory listings, but this setting is missing in the version of Resin server that is packaged with Railo, at list the beta 3.1 version which was available at the time of this writing.
Adding this capability back in is quite simple. You must modify the resin.conf file which is installed in the conf directory of the Railo install directory. I’m on a Mac and I installed Railo in a directory under Applications so my path to the Resin.conf file is /Applications/Railo/conf/resin.conf. Fire up your favorite editor and open up this file. Find the <web-app-default> block and add the following code to it:
<servlet servlet-name="directory"
servlet-class="com.caucho.servlets.DirectoryServlet"/>
Now all you have to do is restart Resin and you should now have directory listings enabled.
Richard Jalichandra launches a new blog
Richard Jalichandra, AKA RJ, just launched a new blog. Right now it’s a collection of the online mentions and interviews Richard has given. It’s a great place to start if you are wondering who is running Technorati.
Follow him on Twitter at jalichandra.
Technorati Tags: Jalichandra, Richard Jalichandra.
Alurium Hosting Launched….
Just launched the hosting service. Alurium Hosting is now officially open for business. I know some are wondering why we choose to get into the hosting business in these economic times. We were able to employ automation techniques to reduce all our projected overhead and allow us to enter this cut throat market with some pretty exciting features; Dedicated IP addresses, Railo 3.0 CFML scripting, Tomcat 5.0 JSP scripting, and Ruby on Rails.
If you’d like to kick the tires you can use coupon code “RailoHosting” which will wave the first months fees.
Hosting service almost ready…
Finishing up the configuration of the hosting servers. Will be launching the service within the next few days and things are getting exciting around here. Staty tuned and I will give more details once we lift the vail.
Began development of watch-my-site.com
Began development of the website monitoring service I will be launching in a few weeks. The site will be branded under the URL watch-my-site.com. The site is just starting to get developed and will soon be online in an alpha preview. This is exciting for me for two reason’s, one is just the joy of working on one of my own projects, the second reason is getting to play with new technologies. This site will be built using the symfony framework for PHP.
If there are features you would like to see I would love to hear from you.
Aliso Viejo Children’s Class - Week Four
Another great week. This week we saw around ten kids at the class with many repeaters. Once again my wife and I got to the complex early and began to get everything setup. A few of the kids helped put the balloons on the signs around the complex.
They then started to go to each of the home to collect the children with my wife. It is great to see the level of enthusiasm exhibited by the kids. They are so eager to help out and participate in the class. We did some more singing this week and one of the songs that the kids like so much was the “love” song. It goes like this:
Love, love, love, love,
love your fellow man.
Love, love, love is
how the world began.
God loves creation
for He created thee,
To love, love, love,
Him and humanity.
I’ll try to remember to take my camera next week and get some more pictures of the kids enjoying the class.
Aliso Viejo Children’s Class - Week Three
With each passing week my anxiety level get lower and lower. During the week I kept debating whether the first two weeks were just a fluke and whether anyone would show up the next week. It was nice see that all the anxiety was unwarranted.
My wife and I showed up early on the third week and started to setup the blankets and stuff. My wife along with some of the local kids started to go around the neighborhood to collect the kids and remind everyone that the class would start shortly. Just as before, little by little the kids started to trickle in. Less kids than the previous two weeks but the ones that did show up were excited about the class and were fully engaged.
We actually were able to do more activities with the kids this go around. The kids got to play some soccer before and later after the class. Cindy had brought a bunch of musical instruments which the kids got to play with during some singing. We were also able to break up the kids into two groups and get the beginnings of a Jr. Youth Group started.
All in all week three was a success and we are getting some positive feedback from a couple of the mothers already. The kids seem to be enjoying the classes as well.
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