Mike, ColdFusion 9 will run on any version of Windows, it is Java. The issues arises when trying to use the connectors on anything above Windows 7 as well as the installer.
You have a few options that will work, depending on if you have the time. As Andrew Myers hinted, running multiple instance of ColdFusion is always a good thing in development. It allows you to add instances of any version of ColdFusion if you have the war/ear files to do so. ColdFusion 9 is not supported on Tomcat, but it will run fine and you will need to know how to manually set sites up. I know there was issues during ColdFusion 10 beta days, where ColdFusion 9 wars had issues being deployed on ColdFusion 10 installs. So you may be in for some long learning sessions on how to do this manually. Another option, but time consuming is to install Windows 7 and ColdFusion 9 and update it to Windows 10. Although this should work it may run into further unsupported issues. I know ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 11 are running fine here on my Windows 10 machine, but this was an update from Windows 8. The only issue is the connector detects its unsupported, so knowing how to manually configure the server is going to be handy. My favourite, is to just throw as much ram into the main machine as possible and go and install VirtualBox. This will allow you to setup and install any amount of Virtual Machines to suit your taste. I am guessing that you are in need to have it run on ColdFusion 9 because sites you maintain use it, but too be honest I would be looking at ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 11, with a Virtual Machine running ColdFusion 9 and then you can migrate the site over to ColdFusion 10 at your convenience. Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Mike K <afpwebwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul, I'm afraid you're right. I'm coming to the conclusion that I"m > going to have to move my CF up to date. What puzzles me is the number > of people who say it can work. I'm not doubting them, but if they say > it'll work, how come it doesnt work for me? that's what I'm pondering > at the moment, as my CF11 downloads. > > In the mean time, I'm not daring to upgrade the OS on my other machines. > Leave well enough alone for now!! > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "cfaussie" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
