>>>I currently have installed... wait for it. That cracked me up.
> 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. Matt, you are an ill man. ;) G! On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Matt Catmacey <[email protected]> wrote: > > >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:337046 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
