MY first thoughts would be it doesn't matter where it is located it's the internet anyone can get to it,
So one Idea I would have would be this: I would guess you are running CF in Multi-Server Mode and using IIS? If this is the case you could create a new server instance with exactly the same settings as the original. Then create a new website in IIS and have the host name as the UK Sites Name and point this to your current code base. Then using wsconfig map this new site to the new JRun instance. Ok so you now have the same site under a different domain and JRun instance, you could then create a copy of your current database then change the DNS in the new instance to point to it, you can then change the pricing to GB/â¬. I guess then you could use you current DB as the base and have a script that updates the new database as and when you update the main. I guess you could then have a dif db for euro, you can then have some code in application.cfm that dependent on the host name used will dictate the Currency Character to use in your price sections. Ok its Sunday night and I have the flu so may not be fully thought out but I would say this is the cheapest and easiest solution, HTH -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2006 18:37 To: CF-Talk Subject: Seeking Advice on U.K. version of our U.S. website Hello, I am the website manager for Simplicity Pattern Co. in U.S. - http://www.simplicity.com. We have a ColdFusion 6.1 website running on Win2003 Server/HP DL360 with a back-end Oracle 8.0.3 or Oracle 9i database running on UNIX HP L2000 servers. We are also running Oracle iStore for a shopping cart to sell our product - home sewing patterns - from our website and maintain Order Management and fulfillment. I have been asked by our U.K. based office to allow a host/developer that they have found in the U.K. to recreate our U.S.-based corporate website using php or other programming languages/servers. The ONLY reason to really have a separate site is that the Oracle iStore solution implemented on our site (in U.S.) does not allow for any other currencies - british pounds, etc. - to be used. Our U.K. office desparately wants to sell product to the U.K./european market using a mirror copy of our present site along with a shopping cart developed by the host/developer they have already contacted. My suggestion to them is to just take our existing ColdFusion website from the U.S. and copy it to a host/provider company in the U.K. that has ColdFusion developers on board and can complete a shopping cart solution for them. This approach could give both our U.K. office and myself access to make site changes as necessary while basically leaving update/maintenance of the Shopping Cart side to the host company and it's developers. Our site is currently about 330mb and contains about 12,000 images and files. I was astonished that the first host that our U.K. office contacted said that they wouldn't take our existing ColdFusion code and wanted to completely rewrite the site. I have been through one project of linking our ColdFusion site to the Oracle iStore and feel I have a strong understanding of the issues. I am perplexed that there could be any real advantage to this other than putting money into the pockets of a developer for developing something that already exists. What I'm looking for is some feedback on whether or not I'm missing something here or if they just haven't found the right ColdFusion host. I am confident that our website could be moved to another server and I can easily provide csv files of the 3 or so database tables that would be necessary to run the website. This would obviously not include the Microsoft SQL Server database or possibly MySQL database that the host would place the data into for the e-commerce/shopping cart side of the development. Are there any suggestions for either method or actual host companies that I can use to complete the copy/development in the most expeditious and simplest manner? Can anyone suggests some U.K.-based CF forums that I can use to contact people there to find out about potential CF-based hosts? The great advantage to this type of solution is that I can help to maintain the code and frequent additions to the U.K. site rather than having to rely completely on a third party to take that which has already been coded for our site and re-code it in php or jsp, or whatever. Thanks very much in advance, Gerald Weir Simplicity Pattern Co. Website Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:253999 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
