Updating Railo behind Proxy / Firewall

Posted At : 27. August 2009 18:54 | Posted By : Todd Rafferty
Related Categories: Tips, HowTo

If you're attempting to update your Railo server and you're behind a firewall / proxy with restricted outbound access, you can manually download the patch and install yourself.

The patches can always be found at:
http://www.getrailo.org/railo/remote/download/{full patch number}/{full patch number}.rc

So, for example, 3.1.1 is found at:
http://www.getrailo.org/railo/remote/download/3.1.1.000/3.1.1.000.rc

Now, once you have the .rc file downloaded, what do you do with it?

Depending on how your Railo is setup, you're looking the /railo-server/patches folder. In resin, it can be found {resin install}/lib/railo-server/patches -- So, if you're on a different JEE engine other than Resin, just look around for your /railo-server/patches folder and drop it in place. Once in place, restart the Railo instance in the server context ( http://{hostname}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm ). This will drop your current session and you'll have to re-log in. When you do, you should be patched!

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Good to know! FYI, for any WAR deployments that /railo-server/patches directory is under WEB-INF/lib, e.g.,
/opt/tomcat/webapps/railo.war/WEB-INF/lib/railo-server/patches

# Posted By Jamie Krug | 27.08.09 20:27

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/RAILO-399 is the bug to vote for for this to be resolved.

In the mean time, if you followed Sean's 'multi web' install guide, the path is .../apache-tomcat-6.0.20/railo/railo-server/patches/3

# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 28.08.09 10:33

What URL can I check against to see if their are new patches ? The URL would work if directory listings were allowed...

# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 29.10.09 15:42

@Tom: No, we don't have anything yet. I did however, discover with Gert's help that you can do this via code with cfhttp, but I believe you're behind a proxy so it won't help you.
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The code:
<cfhttp url="http://dev.railo.ch/railo/remote/version/Info.cfc?...; method="get" resolveurl="no" result="dev">
<cfwddx action="wddx2cfml" input="#dev.fileContent#" output="dev_build">
<cfdump eval=dev_build>
<cfhttp url="http://preview.getrailo.org/railo/remote/version/I...; method="get" resolveurl="no" result="preview">
<cfwddx action="wddx2cfml" input="#preview.fileContent#" output="preview_build">
<cfdump eval=preview_build>
<cfhttp url="http://www.getrailo.org/railo/remote/version/Info....; method="get" resolveurl="no" result="public">
<cfwddx action="wddx2cfml" input="#public.fileContent#" output="public_build">
<cfdump eval=public_build>

# Posted By Todd Rafferty | 29.10.09 15:49

@Tom: Preview.getrailo.org appears to be down at the moment - I've informed the Railo team. If you're successful using that code, just comment out the preview stuff for now.

At any rate, build .014 is on the dev.railo.ch at the moment. I don't think there will be another bleeding edge build until Event Gateways are in Railo as that's what they're currently focused on at the moment, but I could be wrong.

# Posted By Todd Rafferty | 29.10.09 15:56

Cheers Todd.
I am behind a proxy, but FireFox understands how to use them so that's a good solution for now.
It's just Railo's administrator GUI that doesn't understand it needs to use a proxy:-)

# Posted By Tom Chiverton | 29.10.09 16:12

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