Mark, while on the surface you have always been able to run more than one version of CF on a single machine, there is a problem with putting both CF9 or earlier and CF10 or later on one machine, if you are going to use IIS.
The problem is that the connectors are so very different (JRun for CF9 and earlier, Tomcat for CF10 and later). Now, it could work, and especially (as someone may point out) you could and would have a separate “web server connector” created for site a talking to CF10 and site b talking to CF9. The problem is if you have setup CF10 so that it’s configured to handle “all sites” in IIS. In that case, the “isapi filter” for CF10 (that will be configured and implemented in your “new site”) may conflict with the “wildcard handler” that CF9’s connector sets up. If instead you have CF10 setup for now so that a connector exists for only one specific named site, it could work if you create a connector with CF9’s tool to another site. If this is a VM, take a snapshot before you try so you can recover if things get botched. If it’s not a VM, sadly the files you need to “backup” are both the applicationhost.config (buried deep in windows system 32 folder) and the web.config (if any) of your web sites, as well as perhaps the connector folders under wsconfig in CF 10. I’ll add this: if you want to have it done and be sure to recover if something goes amiss, I could certainly help with this, remotely (without need for you to give me RDP access to the machine. I’d “watch over your shoulder” via join.me and guide you in the process. It may take no more than 15-30 minutes if all goes well, and perhaps no more than an hour if things go amiss. This would include explaining what we’re seeing and doing as we go. (If you wanted me to “just do it”, it might shave 25% of the time off, but then you’d need to give me remote access, and setting that up could take time.) You can learn more about my consulting services (rates, approach, satisfaction guarantee, and more) at the consulting page of carehart.org. But if you’re wanting to go it alone, I hope the info above may help. It’s potentially a delicate operation. Hope it goes well for you. /charlie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Davis Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [houcfug] Multiple versions of CF on same machine hey gang, Not sure if anyone is even still on here, but thought I'd try. Here's the deal. I have a local dev environment setup on my Windows 7 laptop for Company A that I work for. That setup is: CF 10, Java 1.7, IIS, Single instance I now need to setup a second CF install to do some work for Company B. That setup needs to be CF 9, Java 1.6, IIS, Multiple instances Completely different code bases and settings. Has anyone done something similar and care to share any gotchas? Thanks Mark -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
