i'm surprised his laptop even runs LOL
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>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:337047 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
