I'm not ignoring anything or anyone. I'm willing to be flexible. I know i'm in a corner.
But i have a system thats pretty busy. My experience over the last 31 years of being in the IT business is that it is folly to make systemic changes to a system thats working well unless you have thought through all the options. I have 42 web sites in dev on this machine. To change how they all work is not a trivial matter. I will probably have to change them but it is going to take some planning and thought before i do it. I've a living to earn along the way and obligations to clients to meet. I'm NOT bitching. I was undiplomatic at the start. Yes. And I'm sorry for that. And I DO want to fix the problem. If i didn't I'd have just said to myself "reactor stinks" and left it at that. And i'd have been wrong. I think some of you need to realise that there is delay on a list between writing something and seeing the reply. I'll be writing something here and when I click "Send" there's another 5 people all saying the same thing I just replied to. That doesnt mean I ignored them. All it means is their emails hadnt arrived on this list by the time I wrote. Doug you might not care how I set up my environment. Thats ok thats entirely up to you. But as the last few messages in this thread show, there are a lot of people with the same set up I have. And it would be in your interests, and in the interests of fledgling Reactor users like myself to have some kind of documentation of this issue and how to get around it. LOTS and LOTS of developers build sites the same way I do, especially the road warriors and one-man shops like mine. I didnt make up this way to set it up i was shown how to do it early on in my coldfusion career by an experienced coldfusion developer. Jared, you wrote : "I'm sorry that you feel it necessary to bite the hand that types helpful emails to you. Going off on Reactor, "people who write software for CF", and anyone other than the person who's causing the problem, isn't helpful." I dont recall "going off" on anyone. I was undiplomatic at first, and i've already apologised for that 5 times now. I dont know how I can correct someone mis-quoting me, or saying things that make me look incompetent or foolish if when i do so I'm perceived as being rude and insulting. If you or anyone else interprets my words as insulting or rude, thats your interpretation not mine. I depend on this list and others like it and never want to offend people. If you think i'm being offensive you're reading it wrongly. Believe me, if I wanted to be insulting, there would be absolultely no doubt about it. I would be VERY agressive in that case. But i learned long ago that you never achieve anything by doing that. Not in email anyway. Perhaps its the way we Australians are. We are often thought of by non-Australians as blunt and rude, but its just that we (well "I" anyway ) are. I tend to speak my mind plainly and straightforward without the niceties of so-called "polite language". I mean no offence to anyone - really. And if anyone's taken offence, I'm sorry but i really didnt mean it that way. I just call a spade a bloody shovel because normally it saves a lot of time. In this case it seems to have taken up a vast amount of time instead. And lastly, Jared, I'm not sure why you feel I'm not listening to you. I'm supposing thats what you mean by "If that's not enough, then so be it.". I am extremely grateful for the suggestions (but not the criticisms) that everyone's given. There are several options I have to consider, and with 42 sites to rebuild or reorganise in one way or another, and a full schedule of work I'm committed to, I'm going to have to think about the implications of any changes before I do them, and for safety's sake, make sure that if something goes wrong with the changes, that i have the time free to fix it without affecting my ability to meet my deadlines.. For example, if I install Apache, and screw it up, I could well break everything and have 42 site owners all yelling at me. My notebook might be the dev environment, but it's also the heart of my business and the main tool for earning my living. You guys surely dont get a new version of windows land on your desk and immediately go to your main server and start upgrading . .. do you? surely you think about it a little first, and do some contingency planning and testing and work out the best time to do it. Dont you? Thanks for your suggestions too Doug I'll have a thnk about what to do. Now i think its time for bed, since it's 3.30am and I'm getting pretty tired. And I'm pretty sure the rest of you are bored to sobs with this whole issue. 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 On 4/17/06, Doug Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're not willing to be flexible then we can't help you. I don't care > how you set up your development environment. We're all trying to show you > how it could work, but you're ignoring it. If you don't want to fix the > problem then stop bitching about it. Move on and do it the old fashioned > way. > > For the record, you could use IIS admin to create 42 different iis entries > in iis 5.1 and then you wouldn't need to worry about this mubmo jumbo. It's > your choice not to and you suffer the consequences. > > The concept that Reactor should somehow compensate for your technique of > using application variables (which reactor should be agnostic to) is > offensive. > > Here's a 30 second solution to your problem: > > 1) create a mapping on your dev cf server pointing to reactor. > > 2) when you move the site to production place reactor under your webroot. > > Doug > > -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/
