[ACFUG Discuss] CF Clustering options

2008-10-21 Thread Arun Nallan
We are considering the clustering options for load balancing/ failover in a IIS/ JRun coldfusion environment. That being said, would the J2EE clustering (or the ColdFusion Enterprise Manager via CF Admin) be the best option to go for, or what would be my other options available. We are going to

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Clustering options

2008-10-21 Thread Cameron Childress
The J2EE clustering in the CF Admin is just a tool to manage the underlying J2EE server, which by default is JRun. Unless you have a business reason to run CF on something else, I usually would just stick to JRun. An argument could be made that you get speed improvements from other J2EE

[ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
Do any of you know of alternatives to TinyURL for taking long urls from something like a CMS and turning it into something much smaller? We have a CMS customer who doesn't like how many of our urls tend to behave when put in marketing PDF's or how they can look in an email. Looking for

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Teddy R. Payne
In your CMS, do you have the template paths or templates names stored in your persistence layer? I retrofitted a client once by add a front loader that referred an encrypted database key that was associated to a particular page view. The only due diligence was ensuring all templates were in the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Cameron Childress
If you are on IIS, look into ISAPI Rewrite to create friendly URLs on your machines. IIRC, you can map it out to send friendly URL requests that match a RegEx pattern to CF for execution and then manage the friendly names in CF/Database. I suspect John Mason knows alot about this.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
Yeah, I think so. With an eye on how to make that work with our CMS (Spectra). - Original Message From: Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:10:38 AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL? Are you looking for an

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
So what would it makes something like this look like? http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=1B958F16-5056-9F12-126A0E08FED1D8F1method=display ? http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm/1B958F16-5056-9F12-126A0E08FED1D8F1/display/ Still longer than I'd like. - Original Message

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Why not roll your own, it should be easy to do and you can maintain your own server name and not depend on 3rd parties... -dhs -- Dean H. Saxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:05 AM, shawn gorrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do any of you know of alternatives to TinyURL for taking

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Cameron Childress
Actually - you could make it look like this: http://www.frbatlanta.org/http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=1B958F16-5056-9F12-126A0E08FED1D8F1method=display go/promo5 You'd map anything that starts with go/ to be passed to a CF template via the ISAPI filter and in CF you'd look for the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Clustering options

2008-10-21 Thread Howard Fore
What's your server platform, Windows or Linux? I had a really bad experience (ok, maybe not bad but extremely trying) with clustering CF on JRun on Redhat Linux. Granted, this was CFMX 6 (and whatever JVM version) five years ago so things should have improved by now, but we had to throw an

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Clustering options

2008-10-21 Thread Arun Nallan
Thanks for your email. Yes, I agree with you. Each situation is different. FYI.. We have a setup of CF running on JRun... and IIS as our webserver. We have proxy connection enabled on JRUN for each CF instance for communication with IIS. So, we have turned off the internal JWS for our purposes

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Clustering options

2008-10-21 Thread Douglas Knudsen
I've set this up before. Its a software approach to cluster/balancing. JRun, the software, decides on where to route requests and such. Failover was not very successful in my experience. If a instance failed, users were still stuck pointing to it instead of getting re-directed. I suspect