Jan 10, 2009

Windows 7, Coldfusion and Apache

With seemingly everyone on the net trying Windows 7 I also decided to give it a go. Whats the first thing I wanted to try. Yep Coldfusion and I can confirm that it does infact install and work. I am running the 64 bit version with Apache 32 as the webserver.

Posted by Paul Kukiel at 4:24 PM

17 comments:

  1. Good to see there haven't been many compatibility issues with the upcoming Windows.

    I recently did a writeup on Windows 7 and tested out XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP Package) which works great.

    I have linked the post.
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  2. Hi wich version of CFM have you used 7 or 8?
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  4. I don't know if this is anything you guys want to take on. It might not be the appropriate venue. I installed the win7 rc and initially had some issues with coldfusion 8.

    After activating some windows components, and then reinstalling cf8 I thought I had fixed all the problems. After the initial install of cf8, and then clicking finish, the cf administrator running in wwwroot/cfide worked just fine. My problem is I have multiple websites that I run through coldfusion server, and none of those pages are visible to the cf server. I have double, and triple checked the directories to make sure the files are there, and they are.

    I have been searching the net for the past week to see if there was anything posted about this particular problem, and have yet to find any reference to it.

    Again I apologize if this is not the venue to come to.

    Hugh
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  5. Are you using Apache or IIS for your webserver?
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  6. I'll also note that I just re-formatted and installed RC and everything is working great. Perhaps I can do a screen cast showing the steps I tool to get this to work.
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  7. I am using iis7 on windows 7 RC.
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  8. and yes the step by step that you offered might be helpful
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  9. Here is a step by step screen cats of Windows 7 RC and ColdFusion 8 and the steps I took to get CF and IIS talking: http://vc.kukiel.net/win7/
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  10. Thanks Paul, I appreciate it.
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  11. Hey Paul... found your blog doing a google search on:

    coldfusion 8 "windows 7" configuring

    THANKS for that screen cast... I was wondering what program you used to make that. I didn't have those additional modules installed and now its working like a charm.

    Thanks again (interesting blog too btw)

    - Spinz
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  12. Thanks Spinz,

    I used Camtasia it's not free but its got nice features. Jing is a good free one though.

    Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
    Jing: http://www.jingproject.com
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  13. ah ok,

    Yea I've been digging thru your blog since seeing your screencast and that Railo(tm) stuff seems pretty interesting. I think I gotta eventually try that out... I was wondering if you knew of any open source projects equvilent to the "flash interactive media server"? I knew of a project a few years back i think it was called CodeRed or Red5 or something along that lines. I'm gonna go hunt it down now but any info you have would be helpful.

    Thanks again!

    - Spinz
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  14. @Sipnz

    I have heard of Red5 ( http://osflash.org/red5 ) I think I once saw a demo of OpenDB talking to it with flashremoting I can't quite remember. If I can find the link I'll post it up.
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  15. Found it: http://www.vimeo.com/1276346
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  16. Thanks for this Paul. Do you have similar steps for setting up with apache? First time, I installed apache and it worked fine, but after installing cf, apache wouldn't serve even html files, and uninstalling cf didn't fix it. I finally blew the machine away (new, didn't care), and haven't had a chance to try again. This is me googling for solutions before another run at it. Thanks again.
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  17. I have jing which is great as a free software but Im thinking of getting camtasia
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