I use a tool called IISAdmin (http://www.firstserved.net/services/iisadmin.php) which is a control panel tool that lets you create multiple sites on IIS 5.1 on windows xp (note iis 6 is not available in xp).
The only caveat is that only one site can run at a time. This allows me to mimic my setup on my production server with relative ease. (That and I dislike administrating apache and also occasionally do some .net work.) Works like a charm for me :) Doug -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gareth Cole Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Reactor For CF] Problems with configuring reactor for shared environment Hi Mike, I run the same setup as you: laptop with XP-Pro, IIS6 etc and several sites all stored in sub-folders off c:\inetpub\wwwroot. About a year ago, I was starting to use CFCs more and finding similar problems with mappings. I also wanted to store files such as xml settings or uploaded documents outside the web-root, so they couldn't be accessed by everyone The solution I eventually came up with was to install apache, running on port 8080 so it doesn't conflict with IIS. All my old sites are still served by IIS, but each new one I set up as a virtual site in Apache. This keeps my sites separate, and is probably a lot closer to the shared hosting they get deployed on. Although I deploy to a windows server running IIS, I've yet to come across any problems due to running Apache on my laptop. Hope this is of use, Gareth > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Kear > Sent: 16 April 2006 17:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Reactor For CF] Problems with configuring reactor for shared > environment > > Jared, I can see that rather than reading what I have written, you're > anxious to prove I'm wrong. > > As I've said several times, but no one seems to want to notice it, i > WANT to be proved wrong on this. I WANT to have reactor working for > me. If it can be made to do what I think it can do, it'll save a LOT > of time in the longer run. > > Also, as I've said several times, but again no one seems to want to > notice, I acknowledge that some people have it working in shared > environments. > > Also as i have said repeatedly, but which Chris Blackwell grossly > misrepresented, I have been trying to make it work in my dev > environment without mappings. I had it working WITH mappings, but sine > it's a shared environment thats impractical. I had to have it working > without. Therefore, Chris Blackwell, pull your head in unless > you're going to quote me accurately. You left off a big and very > important part of my email, which follows on from what you quoted .. > beinning '... or " See there's an "either" in the quoted passage, > so where's the "or" that goes with it? > > Many people are saying exactly the same thing - "Yes it can work > without mappings" but what started this all off is that it bloody well > ISNT working without mappings unless i do some pretty extensive > reorganisation of my 42 web sites. > > It would be much more helpful if instead of all trying to slam my head > into the desk, you helped me track down what i have to do to make this > work in practical terms. > > Doug I NEVER slammed Reactor. I said SEVERAL TIMES that i hoped i was > wrong and that it would work. I said it looked like a terrific > package. I said that I wanted it to work for me. But it's clear > that under WinXPPro and IIS6 it's not doing so unless I only have one > site. I have 42. In a typical morning I might do work on 6 or 7 > different sites. > > Jared, you called me to task for not being specific enough in stating > what my environment, yet only three lines above where you wrote that, > you quote me stating exactly the info you criticised me for not > saying. Were you just being mischievous there? Just wanted me to > look bad? > > Jared, you asked : "Furthermore, if you're passing it a string why > would you expect that to be seen by anything as an object?" > > Answer: I didnt. Doug did. That's line 8 in reactorFactory.cfc in > the package straight from the SVN. > > Jared, you said: "If you changed the contents of the zip file at all > (you've mentioned rearranging all the directories), ..." > > Answer: no I didnt say that. I moved the entire reactor folder > structure as is from one place to another, leaving all the contents > entirely unchanged. I never mess around with stuff like that until i > know whats in there and what everything does. > > Now everyone just calm down. I'm not the evil, incompetent fool some > of you seem desperate to portray me as. > > I was pretty grumpy at the outset, and I could probably have been more > diplomatic in the language I chose, but i had just realised that i had > wasted a large piece of my family time over Easter, chasing something > that was never going to work. I said it wouldn't work in a shared > environment. Probably i shoudl have said it wont work under WinXPPro > and IIS6 unless you only have one site, or you are prepared to do a > lot of gymnastics to make it work. > > And doesnt the built-in server only allow one site to be "active" at a > time? To swtich from one site being at http://localhost to another > site, dont you have to reconfigure the built-in server? If so > doesnt this same issue apply to them too? > > That's still pretty important dont you think? Lots and lots of > developers have that environment on their PCs. > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] > -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ > -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/
