Entries Tagged as 'Tools'

Monitoring a JBoss Instance Running ColdFusion and Railo with JConsole

Today I needed to use JConsole to connect up to a JBoss instance running ColdFusion and Railo. I wanted to see thread usage etc. when starting the application I'm working on.

In the past when I've used JConsole, it used to automatically detect the running JVMs and show them in the startup dialog box. However, today I wasn't seeing the running JVMs.

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Using BBEdit for Editing Apache Configuration Files

Off late, I've been working a lot with Apache configration files. And since I use BBEdit for most of my text file editing, I invariably use BBEdit for editing Apache configuration files. My workflow for working with these files is now quite settled. I thought I'd share it here.

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Online tool for creating Apache .htaccess files

Creating/modifiy the Apache webserver .htaccess files by hand can be a bit of a pain at times.

Today I came across a website that lets one generate an .htaccess file using a nice, Ajax-y web interface.

For example, to setup authentication, one has to create a user. You can do that by simply filling out a simple form like:

Create .htaccess file

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