Chris elegantly penned, > Can CF 4.5 be configured to read cfm files that are stored > on a mapped network drive? The point is to have a central > store for CF code that would be served out by several different > boxes. > > We're using IIS 4 as our web server. NT 4 environment. > > Any ideas? Sounds like you're referring to Clustering the site across several servers. Yes this can be done quite effectively using ClusterCats from BrightTiger (included in CF 4.x Enterprise). Essentially you can have a disk storage array (preferrably RAID 5 level if it's a large site) storing all of your site files, including cfm files. Then on each of your clustered servers, simply map the web root to the (networked) drive(s) having your CF server installation running through the web root. Be careful though as having a central file repository as above can lead to a "single point of failure" i.e. if your disk storage array fails, your site becomes innaccessible. A good work around to this is to have a second "hot spare" disk array on hand in case of any failures on the primary array. There's excellent information about this and other scalability issues in Ben Forta's Advanced book. Hope this helps. Dave Dave Wilson Internet Technology Manager, BizNet Solutions <Allaire Premier Partner> Co-Founder CFUG Ireland http://www.cfug.ie 224, Lisburn Road Belfast BT9 6GE Tel: 02890 225 776 Fax: 02890 223 223 web: http://www.biznet-solutions.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
