Hi BazD, Many many thanks for your time and help. I am working on it and will let you know how it goes.
--Dolma On Mar 6, 12:20 pm, BazD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dolma, > > Heres my 10 steps on how I installed Farcry v4 on IIS6, CFMX8, MS SQL > Database in a non-shared hosting environement. Please note that a > shared hosting environment is slightly different to setup. > > 1) Download Farcry v4 (zip file was called Farcry-1394.zip) to your C: > drive (or the location of the drive you wish to use to story farcry > and your projects on - I will use c: drive for this example) and and > unzip it. > > 2) Renam the folder from "Farcry-1394" to "Farcry". So you now have a > folder on your c: drive called "farcry" (C:\farcry). Inside this > folder, you will see the following three folders: > > a) core > b) plugins > c) projects > > 3) Open the "projects" folder, and rename the "mollio" folder to the > name of your project (in this example, I will use "test" as a project > name). > > 4) Open up MS Management Studio (or whichever tool you use to create > your databases) and created a blank MS SQL database. Call the > database whatever you want. > > 5) Log into cold fusion admin, and set up a "mapping" that points to > the farcry folder that is mentioned in step 1) above . "/farcry" is > the mapping name, which points to "c:\farcry" > > 6) Still within cold fusion admin, create a DSN that points to the > blank MS SQL database, that was created in step 4) above. > > 7) Within IIS, create a new website entry (call the name of the entry > whatever you wish). Within the properties of this entry, point the > home directory to your farcry project www folder: "C:\Farcry\projects > \test\www". Change the Host Headers to the URL you will type in to > access the website. For my own project, I used "test.mydomain.com" > for example. > > 8) Still in IIS6 and the website entry that you have created in step > 7) above, create a virtual directory called "farcry" and pointed to "C: > \Farcry\core\admin" > > 9) Now to install farcry - Open up your browser and in the address bar > type the domain name that you setup the host headers to recognise in > step 7) above (ie. mine would be test.mydomain.com). > > Now at this point, you may get an error saying "Your IP address is not > permitted to access the isntall directory". If you do, open up the > application.cfm file that resides at "C:\Farcry\projects\test\www > \install" and change line 5 from: <cfset lAllowHosts = "127.0.0.1" /> > to <cfset lAllowHosts = #cgi.remote_addr# /> > > This should allow you to run the installer. > > 10) The installer fields I used where: > > Installer Domain Name * = test.mydomain.com > > Project Virtual Directory = blank > > Farcry Virtual Directory = /farcry > > Project DSN * = Enter the DSN of your MS SQL database that I created > in step 6) above > > Database Type * = Microsoft SQL Server > > Database Owner = dbo. > > Install the database only = unchecked > > Delete Installer on completion = unchecked (I always manually delete > the install folder after Ive successfully setup each project. Thats > just my preference). You can do this also, just dont forget to delete > the install folder after successfully setting up your project. > > Farcry plugins: I have only farcrycms checked. > > And thats basically it. > You should then be able to access the admin by typing the URL (ie. > test.mydomain.com/farcry) > and the default username and password are both "farcry" (without the > quotes). > > Thats the basics of the install. Im sure there are others who will > detail how they install farcry on their development machines. > > Regards > B > > On Mar 6, 6:10 pm, cupdx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > Please help me with the installation of Farcry. I have Coldfusion 8 on > > ISS. Coldfusion sits on a partition called E. > > I have already downloaded Farcry. Thanks in advance. > > --Dolma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
