Thanks to the folks over at HeliconTech we now have a new configuration FREE IIS friendly installer of Railo, which I have now installed on the cfmldeveloper servers. To read more about the new installer see my blog.

Enabling Railo is really simple, just create your site as normal (if you are already using ColdFusion then disable it in the web site properties page first), then go into the file manager, navigate into the wwwroot and edit the web.config file.

now replace the contents of the file with the following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <configuration>
 <system.webServer>
 <heliconZoo>
 <application name="railo.project">
 <environmentVariables>
 </environmentVariables>
 </application>
 </heliconZoo>
 <handlers>
 <add name="railo.project#x86.cfm" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfm" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x86" preCondition="bitness32" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x86.cfc" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfc" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x86" preCondition="bitness32" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x86.cfml" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfml" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x86" preCondition="bitness32" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x86.cfr" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfr" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x86" preCondition="bitness32" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x86.cfswf" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfswf" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x86" preCondition="bitness32" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x64.cfm" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfm" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x64" preCondition="bitness64" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x64.cfc" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfc" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x64" preCondition="bitness64" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x64.cfml" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfml" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x64" preCondition="bitness64" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x64.cfr" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfr" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x64" preCondition="bitness64" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 <add name="railo.project#x64.cfswf" scriptProcessor="railo" path="*.cfswf" verb="*" modules="HeliconZoo_x64" preCondition="bitness64" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script" />
 </handlers>

 </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Now open your railo admin and set your password. DONE!
http://yoursite.cfmldeveloper.com/railo-context/admin/web.cfm

SEO Friendly URL's

If you need to use SEO friendly URL's for things like Mangoblog and MuraCMS, this doesn't work out of the box with railo.

in your web root you will have a "web-inf" folder which is created automatically the first time you run a CFM page, this contains your Railo context, inside this folder create a web.xml file and paste in the below contents fig 2. 
This will allow the most common SEO URL  "index.cfm/something" to work, I have also included the required filters for MangoBlog. Now you just need to modify this file within each of your sites and add any required url-filters.
The only caveat is that you need to restart your app server in order for the settings to take affect, This can be done via the website properties page in website panel, see Fig 1 below, or by making a change to your web.comfig file which causes the app pool to recycle, this must be a real change, not just adding spaces.

FIG 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
metadata-complete="true"
version="2.5"
>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>CFMLServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>index.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/post.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/archives.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/page.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/author.cfm/*</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/feeds.cfm/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

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