On 12/04/2010 23:01, Cutter (ColdFusion) wrote: > > We are considering moving from CF8 on 32-bit Windows 2003 to 64-bit CF9 > on Windows 2008. Anyone who has experience with this, if you could > please give me your feedback on any issues you may have dealt with, > hurdles you crossed, and gotchas that slowed your progress. >
We have done just that and it was almost painless. Code all ran fine, but we ran into some bumps with payment gateways and the like as 64bit CF won't run 32 bit CFX tags. In every case there was a different version or a move to java-based gateway objects that fixed the problem. 2008 is a breeze to set up, add the IIS bits in roles/features in the Server Manager, the firewall should adjust itself for http and CF installs just fine over it all. Depending on your intentions for email sending you will probably have to open up SMTP outbound in the firewall. Of all of the hundreds of upwards migration we have done over the years this was the easiest... -- Yours, Kym Kovan mbcomms.net.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332844 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
