Install to Server Context

[sjdaniels]

Would it be possible to allow this to be installed at the server context?

[Leigh-]

Good question. Let me check with Andy when he comes up for air, as he is managing the bulk of the installation code.

[Leigh-]

Just a quick follow up. We have not forgotten about this. Unfortunately Andy's not available right now (and I am not very familiar with the installer). So it is on hold for the moment.

[btaves]

Has there been any update on this in the last couple years?

Unless I am missing something, this extension would have to be installed on every web context of your Railo installation in order to work for all sites. To me at least, that feels wrong for a language-level extension (especially one that provides ACF feature parity for Railo).

Edit:
Well I'm impatient and after messing around with this for a few hours I got this working as an application in the Server context (Railo 4.1.2.005 final / Win2k8R2). For anyone interested, this is what I did:

1. I ended up hosting my own version of the provider and set the "type" to "server".
2. Manually create {install_dir}\lib\railo-server\context\components
3. Unzip the cfpoi.zip file
4. Unzip the next cfpoi.zip (they are nested)
5. Edit \cfpoi\spreadsheet\spreadsheet.cfc
   -- Replace any reference to "railo-web-directory" with "railo-server-directory"
   -- Comment out the "/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar" arrayAppend in the "loadPoi" method
6. Edit \installFolder.cfc
   -- Replace any reference to "railo-web-directory" with "railo-server-directory"
7. Zip the nested cfpoi.zip
8. Zip the parent cfpoi.zip
9. Upload this new zip to my locally hosted provider
10. Install the application from the "Applications" section of the Server admin