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Running ColdFusion/Railo On The Command Line with ConEmu

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Everytime I talk to Dan Wilson (who is quite smart) he mentions I should run my ColdFusion servers on the command line so I can see what’s going on behind the curtain.

I’ve always been too lazy to actually do this but while troubleshooting a recent problem I finally broke down and setup ConEmu to run ColdFusion and Railo.

If you aren’t using Conemu read this.

Setting up ConEmu was simply a matter of configuring a few extra ’tasks’ as they are called in Conemu.

I setup the following tasks with these commands:

  • ColdFusion = C:\ColdFusion9\runtime\bin\jrun.exe -start coldfusion
  • Railo = C:\railo\tomcat\bin\catalina.bat run
  • CFML (see screenshot) Git bash, CFML and Railo all started at once

ConEmu ColdFusion

By default my ConEmu opens up with Git bash only but cranking up ColdFusion and or Railo is only a click away:

ConEmu ColdFusion

I have Conemu open all day so this isn’t really the hassle I thought it would be!

If I need CFML I can click and wait a moment for it to crank up, and if I don’t need it, or want to restart it, that’s a click away too. No more waiting 5 minutes for the ColdFusion service to restart!