Andrew (Scott) thanks for your input. Incisive as always. I had a WIndows7 machine. With ColdFusion 9 Enterprise. That's my dev environment at the moment. I upgraded windows to WIn10 Home and Apache didnt work. That's where this whole thread started. And I havent found a way out of it yet, apart from moving CF up to CF11.
As it turns out, ColdFusion 9 might run on any version of windows, but however its bloody well not running on my WIndows10 Home machine. It wont even run the installer. I have 4 machines to deal with. The machine I'm working on at present is the one i rarely use, but having any of the others out of action for more than a day would be a big problem. So i need to figure out what my strategy is going to be before I even start on those ones. -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Andrew Scott <andr...@andyscott.id.au> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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.
