I'm not sure if I can find the email or not (it's from the CF7.01 or 7.02 beta) but Stephen Dupre, who was part of the CF QA team at the time stated that the "cfusion" instance had unfortunately been misused by the CF community at large, although this was partly down to Macromedia not communicating that the cfusion instance was designed purely for creating new instances and wasn't really supposed to be used as a production environment instance.
Now, I realise this doesn't give you the official in letter "proof", but as Dave has stated, it's really up to you whether you want to follow this "best practice". The idea of the cfusion instance was for it to be a template you used to create new instances. Due to various bugs with this concept, it's really just become a way to replicate what you have to do manually via the JMC, i.e, create JRun server, deploy CF EAR file, etc. Anyway, use the cfusion instance if you want to. It's certainly not worth arguing over. But to re-iterate, it's original intention was purely to serve as a way to create new instances (it's why cfusion is the only instance to have the Instance/Cluster manager) based off of template settings. Andy On 16 August 2010 23:29, Andrew Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dave, > > I am sorry but if I install one, two, three instances and I wish to use the > very initial instance there should be no reason not to. I would like someone > to give me a very valid good reason why it is frowned upon? > > I might have one instance for one client, and another for another client. > But why should I want the settings copied across to the second client? I > don't, that's why I went with the instances, because I need them with > separate settings per instance per client. > > I am sorry but I don't see a valid enough reason not to use the initial > instance. > > Regards, > Andrew Scott > http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2010 8:26 AM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: CFBuilder Server Setup with CF Multiserver Installation >> >> >> > No there might not be, but I find it hard to accept that people are >> > telling me to install a new instance and have two instances of >> > ColdFusion 9 running and for what purpose? >> >> I don't know who's telling you what, but I don't see anyone telling you to >> install a new instance. What I do see, is people saying if you're going to > install >> multiple instances using CF, the first instance shouldn't be used for >> development or deployment. And if you're not going to install multiple >> instances, you don't even need to install the multiserver version of CF. >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> http://training.figleaf.com/ >> >> Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA >> Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction > at >> our training centers, online, or onsite. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336328 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
