Grrr... flipping mail servers... grumble groan... sorry in advance for the resend.....
Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Moretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Client Variable Storage in CF 5.0 versus 4.0 > Karl, > > > > 1) Is my conclusion true, did CF 4.0 default to the Registry (or the > > default setup in the CF Administrator for client variable storage) if the > > database specified in the CFAPPLICATION tag for client variable storage > did > > not contain CDATA and CGLOBAL tables? > > > I can't say for certain, because I've never tested the theory, but from > experience of occassionally doing daft things like forgetting to generate > the client variable tables in the client datasource, that would seem to be > the case. > > > 2) Can client variables be maintained properly in a load-balanced (by > > hardware, not ClusterCats) system if they are stored in the Registry of > > each web server? I'm thinking that this might explain how the client > > variables are getting mixed up. > > > You be right to think that if you are load balancing (hardware or > clustercats) and have registry stored client variables there are going to > be problems. In order to share client variables in a cluster, they need a > central store, such as your production database, to which all of your > servers have ODBC/OLEDB/Native driver access and a pointer from the > CFAPPLICATION tag or in CFAdmin itself. CF, as I'm sure you've deduced, > can't access the registry of other servers even if they are in a cluster. > > You might be advised, given how badly it sounds the application is written, > to change the client store setting in the administrator, so that all > applications, whether they have a cfapplication tag or not, actually use a > datasource rather than the registry. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards > > Stephen > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
