I got tired of tinkering with the variance between prod and my workstation, so I setup VMWare (or you can use Virtual PC), so that I have a self contained version of the server (for all intents and purposes) on my workstation. This allows me to disable enable all services by simply pausing/unpausing my virtual server.
Works pretty well. - Calvin -----Original Message----- From: Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 12:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Developer edition install question I'll second Dave's comments, but add this: Be sure that you can afford to have all the software in question running on your box. Is it your primary workstation? Are you willing to stop the services when you're not using them? By the time you get CFMX (which means Jrun), IIS, Dreamweaver, Firworks, Eclipse, HS+, SQL Server or your DB engine of choice, and anything else like Outlook, Firefox, IE, and all the other tools you'll have to run... how much memory and CPU are you going to have left for working? Granted, Jrun only consumes (generally) between 50 and 125MB of RAM, but the real question is what's the cumulative memory and CPU consumption by the time you get all that installed and running and want to work. Since deployment to IIS/CF and CF-standalone are identical (CF Admin to set up services like DSNs, files copied to a folder for deploying application), there's absolutely no harm in developing on CF developer stand-alone. There are a few extra things I find myself needing to do on IIS where CF Developer is pretty much install-and-go (IIS tasks include verifying the CFIDE virtual directory, JrunScripts virtual directory, and messing with host headers/virtual sites) Unless you need to do things like virtual directories or virtual sites, I'd say go for the developer standalone. Or use Apache... ;) For my little Celeron D 325 system with 512MB of the highest performance RAM I could get, I need to have CF, IIS, SQL Server all on an off-board box because it dogs out badly when I've got DW, HS+, Outlook, Excel, 4 tabs in Firefox, Fireworks, and CuteFTP all open at the same time. Gets nasty, actually. Sorry that got long, but it's not so simple a question. Laterz, J On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:21:57 -0500, Scott Mulholland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new machine that has xp pro on it. I'm installing cf 6.1 dev > and was wondering if there was any benefit to running it through IIS > instead of the self contained web server you can install with mx? > > Does running cfmx on its own server and not IIS make it easier to also > run a .net environment on the machine later on? > > TIA, > Scott -- Continuum Media Group LLC Burnsville, MN 55337 http://www.web-relevant.com http://cfobjective.neo.servequake.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197717 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
