>What would be the best way to do this? Just install them all in standalone mode side by side, it works fine. This is just for development and testing so you're unlikly to be using them all at the same time, infact unless you are part of a team your server is likley to be doing nothing most of the time anyway.
As an example. I have here in my office my humble old development server. It's a 9 year old 1.5GHz Pentium 4 with a grand total of 768Mb of RAM running windows 2000 server (IIS5). I currently have installed... wait for it. Coldfusion 5. Coldfusion 6.1. Coldfusion 7. Coldfusion 8. Coldfusion 9. Bluedragon 7.0.1 I did have openDB/Jetty installed at one point too. CF9 was a bit of a pain to install as Adobe have dropped support for windows 2000 but it can be done. See here : http://www.delbridge.org/post.cfm/how-to-install-coldfusion-9-on-windows-2000-iis-5 Oh I also have MySQL 5.1 and SQL Server express installed, plus Apache too for my SVN repos. I have IIS setup serving virtual hosts for all my dev sites and set each site up for the required CF version depending on the project/client's requirements. (I run DNS too on this server but you could do the same BY editing your hosts file). To keep things sane I tend to turn off the older CF's in the services control panel as it's getting really rare to need CF5 & 6 and BD is specific to a single client so I turn that off too. But even then right now that leaves CF7,8 and 9 running. As I said, this is for development so although they are all running they mostly get paged out to swap except for the CF driving the project I'm working on at that moment so memory is not big issue (I have around 100Mb free at the moment!) The only tweaking I've done is to set the number of simultaneous requests quite low (4) to cope with the crappy CPU. For ease of access to the the docs and admin I have a virtual host for each CF that has the home directory pointing at the wwwroot folder in the relevant CF directory. That way I can access all the admins easily eg. http://cf8/cfide/administrator/ So my advice is just to go for it. If you have an anywhere near new PC you shouldn't have any issues with memory or processing power. Install the oldest CF first and work your way up to CF9. And of course remember that this is just for dev purposes... nothing live or under any significant load. Regards Matt Casey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:337043 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
