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On the Railo site there is an installation manual, but i’ve added a few things to make it even more of a no-brainer, especially for creating a virtual host. This installation is tested only Windows 7 RC:

To install Railo Express 3.1 on Windows 7 RC as follows:

1. Download Railo express.
2. Unzip and copy the whole zip contents to a folder, for example: c:\railo31
3. In c:\railo31 click on start.bat
4. Go to http://localhost:8888, choose a password an login.  Configure your CFML server

Your server is now up and running.

If you want to make a new virtual host on your Railo server:

1. To start a new website, make a copy of c:\railo31\contexts\railo.xml
2. Rename this copied file to the hostname of your choice, for example mywebapp
3. In this new mywebapp.xml file, make 3 changes:
4. Change ‘webroot’ into ‘mywebapp’
5. Uncomment the ‘virtual hosts’ section and delete the 3 entries there.
6. Add ‘www.mywebapp.com to this virtual hosts section.
7. Now, add ’127.0.0.1 www.mywebapp.com’ to the winows host file* (see below).
8. Under C:\railo31\ make a new folder named ‘mywebapp’ (note: not under ..\webroot)
9. Put an index.cfm with ‘Hello World’ in C:\railo31\mywebapp
10. Stop the Railo server and restart the Railo server
11. Go to http://www.mywebapp.com:8888 and you should see the ‘Hello World’ text.

* To edit the host file on Windows Vista and Windows 7:

1. Click Start – search for “Notepad“, right-click and select “Run as Administrator“.
2. Set it to All files (*.*) (because the host file has no extension)
3. Now, open the ‘host’ file from the File menu from C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ or %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
4. Add 127.0.0.1 www.mywebapp.com (and ::1www.mywebapp.com for IP6?) to the end of this file and save it.

That’s it, you now have a fully function virtual host with a CFML server running and can start creating Coldfusion applications.

10 security tips that you can easily implement on your WordPress blog.

Did your WordPress site get hacked?

10 steps to protect the admin area in WordPress

From the Google webmasters: best practices against hacking.

From the masters at wordpress.org comes  ‘Hardening WordPress‘

The security evangelists at blogsecurity.com have written a free PDF about WP security. There are alot of doublures in there but also some new tips and tricks to secure your site.

1. Create an image for the bullets you want to use. A 15×15 pixels PNG image will do nicely.
2. Create a new Google Docs document and insert the image you’ve just created.
3. Go to Edit > HTML and look for some code that looks something like this: File?id=dnb74wq_335hkj2s38s_b
4. Create a new Google Docs document.
5. Go to Edit > CSS and paste the following code there: ul { list-style-image: url(‘File?id=dnb74wq_335hkj2s38s_b’);} where you  can replace the’ File?id=..’  etc by the code that you looked up in step 3 and click OK.
6. Now make a small sample list and click Ctrl +8 (or use the small icon).

You should see you newly created bulletlist.

Ofcourse this is only a minor improvement of your documents, but in the same manner you can create more elaborate templates for Google Docs.

1. Keep your navigation clear, ovious and standard.
2. Keep the homepage unclouded.
3. Build trust through standard navigation elements.
4. Add a search-box.
5. Ditch the ‘splash-page’ or intro-page before your homepage.
6. Use Flash sparingly.
7. Always give visitors a ‘next step’ to go to, also after they filled in a form or placed an order.
8. Create good content.
9. Do use ALT-tags for images and do not automatically start music
10. Keep practical information short and concise.

Ofcourse there are alot more do’s and dont’s to website building, but these 10 rules go a long way towars building a user-friendly site.