> I work at a university on a web development team that works a > lot in Coldfusion. I'm still somewhat fresh to Coldfusion, > and I want to learn more. I want to be able to experiment and > work on things to teach myself colfusion, both at work and at > home. I would like to be able to install the Developer > Edition of coldfusion on a portable hard drive along with my > files so that I can work on the same files with the same > settings at both work and home. Is it even possible to make > coldfusion portable in this manner? I know there are a > handful of services that need to run, how would that work > with a portable server? Any help would be appreciated. > > I realize I could probably just install the Developer Edition > on both machines, and just port my files between computers. I > could also possibly use subversion to sync up to the same > files. But it seems like it should be possible to have the CF > Server on a portable hard drive, and I really want to find > out how to do it. Plus I want to better understand the server > side of things. Thanks in advance for any advice.
As Tom mentioned, CF needs to be installed to work properly. By "properly" I mean integrated with your web server, configured to talk to database servers, etc. You can get CF to run (in Windows at least) as an application without installing it, however, by switching to the appropriate directory and running the appropriate command, if you've originally installed it on JRun. A good solution for having a completely portable environment is VMware. You could create one or more virtual machines with everything you need, and all you'd have to install on each workstation is the VMware Player, which is free. If you purchase VMware Workstation 6, it's available with an option to create a self-contained "Pocket ACE" environment, which is explicitly intended for use in this way, although frankly it's not really necessary to do that. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! This email has been processed by SmoothZap - www.smoothwall.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283463 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
