Quite so, Charlie. In fact I've been running with IIS quite happily for years now, in the current IIIS5.1 on WInXPPro and its predecessors. I currently have 42 sites on my dev machine at various states of development.
What's prompted this change is the increasing tendency of things like frameworks to require placement at the root of the site. Specifically, the marvellous Reactor, (which dynamcally builds all the queries, DAO CFCs etc without requiring me to write any SQL at all!!) has to be placed at the root of the site, and if you have mappings pointing to the root you get all kinds of problems making it work. In short, I needed all my sites to each have their own site root rather than being one level below the root with a mapping to enable includes etc. As you say Charlie, there are more ways than one to achieve this and I have no issue with IIS - it drives all of my production sites. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/25/06, Charlie Arehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While the info and experienced you shared may help some, I'd like to point > out that you'd not be *entirely* "up the creek with no paddle" if you had to > (or chose to) be stuck with IIS. First, the limitation to not create more > than one site in IIS is only a limitation in XP (or Windows 2000 > Workstation). In Win2k3 or Win2k Server one can indeed create multiple > sites. > > Still, I realize that most don't have those and so are stuck, say, with XP. > Still, there is a solution it may benefit to know about (some will already, > of course). It's not that you can't have multiple web sites, just that IIS > won't let you create them (and won't let you run more than one at a time). > But there are ways to create multiple web sites, so that as long as you only > need to run one at a time, you can get around problems like you described. > > One of the best tools for this is IISAdmin, at > http://www.firstserved.net/services/iisadmin.php. > > I wrote a blog entry about it, with more background, when I was with New > Atlanta: > > http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/multisitesoniis.htm > > All that said, I certainly don't mean to dissuade anyone from learning about > Apache as well. It's really nice to have both the alternative and knowledge > of it. > > /charlie > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
