I didn't read the whole thing and I know others responded to parts so I'll just say my piece since at cf.Object last year I mentioned I was working on an installer for Windows (specifically IIS).
I saw writing and adapter for Tomcat -> IIS (or making it easy to use the stuff that is out there) as competative to ColdFusion so I stopped working on the installer. I know this might sound odd coming from someone on the project but I just don't want to make it so OpenBD can bite off a chunk of ColdFusion customers, without a return from other markets like PHP. I like OpenBD b/c it is open source and allows me to get fine tuned control over things, I am in it for something other than free. Now if I saw a large # of community members coming from PHP looking for it or a potential to grab a bunch of script kiddies thanks to the installer I would be more inclined to pick the installer project back up. As it stands I think that just lowers the learning curve and opens OpenBD up to cannibalizing the niche market and I'm not really interested in it. Adam On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM, DetailsDotAt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find it frustrating and dissapointing that a clear cut installation > guide for running OpenBD on an IIS server hasn't been generated yet. > People at NewAtlanta who support this should have done this along time > ago. > > The whole point for Bluedragon originally was as an alternative to > Coldfusion Server, as least that's what I thought. > > I understand that CF server ran on Linux, but we all know the majority > of CF server installations were Windows based and certainly the > majority of those were IIS based installations. Here I am a dedicated > BlueDragon advocate who feels like he just jumped off a cliff trying > to move from BlueDragon7 to OpenBD, which is apparently my only option > if I want to continue using a somewhat supported free version of > BlueDragon. > > I'm just a user here, I just want to be able to uninstall BD7, install > OpenBD, test my code, and move on. > > I shouldn't have to be feeling I need to spearhead some big movement > to get OpenBD running on IIS. > > Ok, end of rant. > > First of all, I AM going to consider dropping IIS now. I'd at least > like to do my due diligence and try a recommended alternative. > > I have Java 1.6 running on my current server (actually, i think it > updated last night). > > What do I do now? Before I uninstall IIS, I'm going to get an > alternative running on port 8080 (much like the built in webserver > with BD7) > > All this Install Tomcat on Jetty on Java on Tomcat in Jetty running > with Java using Bluedragon on Windows running Jetty using Java stuff > is confusing me (considering I'm at work trying to fit working on this > in with the rest of my non related activities). > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
