Yeah I stopped using Apache nearly 10 years ago, I had no need to learn it any further, as all jobs I worked on where IIS installations.
Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Mike K <afpwebwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
