I do all my CFMX development on OS X. I really don't see much
difference between running JRun/CFMX on Windows and Mac. I changed the
install directories from "/opt/jrun4" to "/Applications/jrun4" and
"/opt/cfmx" to "/Applications/cfmx". It isn't necessary but to work in
/opt you need to be root, and the Finder (the Mac equivalent to Windows
Explorer) by default hides a lot of those directories (/etc, /opt,
/var) from the user thus it's much harder to work in them. From inside
the JRun and CFMX admins, the only difference you'll really notice is
that your directory delimiter is different, from \ on Windows to / on
the Mac OS.
I wonder about your "save all the database in db folder" statement. Are
you using MDB files (from Access)? If so, you'll need to find some
other option. There really is no comparable db in the Mac world that is
usable by ColdFusion. MySQL will run just fine (get the distribution
from http://www.entropy.ch/) but there's no built in GUI. However there
are a number of excellent third-party JDBC interfaces available
(SQLGrinder, phpmyadmin, sql4x).
OS X uses Apache as it's web server and has that installed by default.
The default location for the server (http://localhost/) webroot is
/Library/Webserver/Documents, but user's web documents
(http://localhost/~username) are in /Users/username/Sites. In my
experience this doesn't really lend itself to portable development. I
set up aliases to localhost using Netinfo Manager and an Apache
configuration file with NamedVirtualHosts (if you save this into
/private/etc/httpd/users/ any upgrades to the OS won't overwrite them).
I'm sure I left something out...
--
Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of
words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the
people who must use the words." (Philip K. Dick)
On Feb 17, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Sangeeta Karmokar wrote:
> Can anyone help me Please....
>
> Intially I was working on PC so Coldfusion Server was running on PC,
> but now in my office they have shifted PC to Mac OS X. You know in PC
> how we can save all database in db folder and cfm pages in WWWroot
> folder of the server and then later from Admin section we can map the
> folder. but in Mac Server I am not sure where to save the database
> files and cfm files?
> I know we have to create a separate server for each project but where
> to save the database file and cfm pages and how to map it?
>
> I will be thankful if you can help me....
>
>
> Regards
> Sangeeta
>
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