> I'm running WebsitePro, and CF 4.5.1, on my server. Am going
> to change to IIS sometime soon. Is CF going to get upset
> about this? When it installs, it wants to know which website
> server product to use (even if there is only one installed on
> the server), but I've never known how it uses that information.
> Will I have to reinstall CF (ugh, all those datasources to setup
> again)?
CF won't get too upset about this. The server question during the install
allows CF to set up API configuration for the chosen server - WSAPI for
WebSite, ISAPI for IIS. You can do this setup manually without reinstalling
CF by simply mapping the .cfm file extension to the ISAPI extension that CF
provides (C:\CFUSION\BIN\ISCF.DLL).
However, it's easier to just reinstall CF. If you don't uninstall it first,
it'll preserve all your existing settings, like your datasources.
In the case that you actually have to move from one box to another, you can
back up your datasources registry keys - this is usually pretty easy to do.
The appropriate registry keys are
HKLM\Software\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\Datasources and
HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI. You'll want to export them to text files, read
them over, make any appropriate changes, then merge the text files on your
new server.
> If I install IIS while WebsitePro is still on the server, can
> CF talk to it? When I get rid of WebsitePro, is there an easy
> way to tell IIS to use port 80 (since Website would no longer
> be listening on it)?
As long as they're not both running at the same time (and you probably don't
want them running simultaneously), you don't have to worry about which port
is being used. In any case, you can specify on a per-virtual-server basis
which ports it will use within the IIS Internet Service Manager interface.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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