I have a client who insists on separating the web server from the application
server, putting them on different physical servers. This is because they say
it's more secure as the app server has no access to/from the internet. Their
current servers are set up this way but I can't figure out
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Subject: ColdFusion IIS on different servers
I have a client who insists on separating the web server from the
application server, putting them on different physical servers. This is
because they say it's more secure as the app server has no access to/from
the internet. Their current servers
Andrew Clarke wrote:
Are there any actual security advantages to doing this? I'm not sure if they
are just following general best practices that aren't applicable in this
instance or if they know something about ColdFusion security that I don't
know.
It is not an unheard of idea in
This is called Distributed Mode.
The following article, although for CF6, is basically what you need to do.
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/administration/cfmx_in_distributed_mode/index.html
Andy
2008/12/9 Andrew Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have a client who insists on separating the
This is called Distributed Mode.
While distributed mode is an option, and will work, I would suggest
instead that you use a reverse proxy. The advantage of this is that
your network and web server administrators will have a better idea of
how it works, and it doesn't require any CF configuration
and CF and have it work I
could be wrong though.
Paul.
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From: Andrew Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: ColdFusion IIS on different servers
I have a client who insists on separating the web server from
behind it?
I didn't think it was possible to separate IIS and CF and have it work I
could be wrong though.
Paul.
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 2:33 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: ColdFusion IIS on different
Thank you very much to everybody for your responses. Not knowing the setup was
called distributed mode I had a hard time searching for the answer :-)
It is not an unheard of idea in security. Just expose you web server
with almost nothing on it to the wild word web, keep your application
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