In the last couple of posts I made passing references to using a USB Flash drive for development. My dad just got back from a trip to the US and brought me back a little present: a 1 Gig usb drive. It is absolutely awesome, as soon as I got home I loaded Eclipse onto it and fired it up and it just worked (no surprises there as quite a few others had already achieved that feat). Next I put my current development files on there and I just pointed Eclipse to the new work space and after a restart - mobile development here we come!! Then I wanted to see how far I could take this: so I downloaded XAMPP (XAMPP is based on the popular LAMP [Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP] and includes a bunch of other tools) and extracted the contents of the package to my USB drive. Switching to the command prompt I navigated to XAMPP folder and started Apache using the included apache_start.bat file, opened a browser and went to http://localhost/ and there you go Apache and PHP working of the USB key (note: make sure you don’t have any other Apache instances running). But could I get CFMX or BlueDragon to run off of this configuration as well? First off I selected Resin as my application server and proceeded to set up resin to talk to Apache. I ran the setup.exe file and specified the path to my Apache folder, i.e. E:\xampp\apache and restarted Apache. But that failed, for some reason resin assumed that I was running apache-1.3.x so I edited Apache’s httpd.conf file to this: [code]LoadModule caucho_module “E:/resin-3.0.12/win32/apache-2.0/mod_caucho.dll” #AddModule mod_caucho.c … ResinConfigServer localhost 6802 CauchoStatus yes AddHandler caucho-request jsp [/code] Once done I restarted Apache and it started up no problem. Now to test the connection between Apache and resin, simply locate resin.conf (in my case I found it at E:\resin-3.0.12\conf\) and right at the end you should see an entry like the following one: [code] [/code] Change it to this, which tells resin to use Apache’s default document directory. [code] [/code] All this information can be found here, including steps to test your set up by creating a test.jsp file. Then I started resin using (where “E” is the drive letter of my usb drive): [code]E:\resin-3.0.12\httpd[/code] And browsed as per the instructions to http://localhost/test.jsp and it worked just like that. Since I was on a roll, I decided to try out BlueDragon, so I downloaded the J2EE version and extracted the files and copied the BlueDragon62.war file to E:\resin-3.0.12\webapps and restarted resin so that BlueDragon could be deployed. A little bit of patience is required here as it starting the Application server can take a wee while (this becomes the norm regardless of whether BlueDragon has been deployed, obviously this is a limitation of running it off the USB stick). Here is that output from the server start up: [code]E:\resin-3.0.12>httpd Resin-3.0.12 (built Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:29:38 PST) Copyright(c) 1998-2004 Caucho Technology. All rights reserved. Using Resin(R) Open Source under the GNU Public License (GPL). See http://www.caucho.com for information on Resin Professional, including caching, clustering, JNI acceleration, and OpenSSL integration. Starting Resin on Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:57:38 +0100 (BST) [14:57:54.562] http listening to *:8080 [14:57:54.562] ServletServer[] starting [14:57:57.625] Host[] starting [14:58:17.484] In-place class redefinition (HotSwap) is not available. In-place class reloading during development requires a compatible JDK and -Xdebug. [14:58:24.343] Application[http://localhost:8080/BlueDragon62] starting [14:58:44.921] cfmServlet: init [15:02:06.984] cfcServlet: init [15:06:42.312] Application[http://localhost:8080/resin-doc] starting [15:06:51.562] Application[http://localhost:8080] starting [15:06:56.125] hmux listening to 127.0.0.1:6802[/code] You know that everything is running once you see hmux listening to 127.0.0.1:6802. You can now test your deployment by browsing to: http://localhost/BlueDragon62/, which should display the BlueDragon CFML test page. If you want to locate the admin section of BD browse here: http://localhost/BlueDragon62/bluedragon/admin/index.cfm