Andrew Clarke wrote: > Are there any actual security advantages to doing this? I'm not sure if they > are just following general "best practices" that aren't applicable in this > instance or if they know something about ColdFusion security that I don't > know. >
It is not an unheard of idea in security. Just expose you web server with almost nothing on it to the wild word web, keep your application server locked as best as you can behind firewalls and other security measures. > Also, I can't find any information on how to install IIS on one computer but > have ColdFusion on another. If anybody can quickly explain that to me or > point me to an article on how to do that I'd really appreciate it. It is called 'Distributed' mode and ColdFusion supports it just fine. I have never done this myself so I can't point to any documentation. But the basic idea is that ColdFusion is configured on one machine and the web server is on another. You then run the Web Server Connection tool on on the web server machine and tell it to connect to the ColdFusion applicaiton server on the other machine by picking the machine name rather then the default 'localhost' selection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316496 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
