ColdFusion 8 System Requirement

Phinehas1234 wrote:

 

May I know the min system requirement installation of ColdFusion 8 Application Server? Can it install & run in Windows Server 2008 with IIS 7.5?

Yes. That question was answered earlier in this forum. See Jason Holden's blog.

Which supporting library / software is required if any (such as Java?)?

ColdFusion 8 already contains the Java version that it requires.

Also, is it possible to export all settings in ColdFusion 8 Server and import to the new one?

Yes. When you install ColdFusion 8 on a server that already has an existing, recent version of ColdFusion, you will, during the process be able to import existing ColdFusion server settings. The ColdFusion 8 installer will enable you to do this by means of the Migration Wizard.

Yes, migration wizard is there, when you are installing a newer version of CF, on an existing version. You can have a look at http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/purpose-location-xml-configuration-files.html. Once you know, which all settings you wish to backup, move them from the old server to new server. The "neo-" files contain the CF settings.

P.S. Do take a backup of the "neo-" files to be overridden. You may have to roll back, in case things doesn't work as expected.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

Phinehas1234 wrote:

 

Since we will migrate existing server to new one, is it any method to export all settings in existing ColdFusion 8 Server, then, I just import the setting back to ColdFusion 8 Server after the new windows server is ready?

Anit beat me to it. The way to do it is manually, copying the relevant files from the list in the reference that Anit gave.

However, an important configuration file is missing from the list. It is neo-datasource.xml, which contains the datasource settings in the ColdFusion Administrator. My advice is that you should, beforehand, write down all the datasource names and passwords of the old ColdFusion installation. After overwriting the neo-datasource.xml file in the new ColdFusion installation, you might need to reset the password of each datasource.

I am stumped BKBK. How come I missed the neo-datasource.xml from that list. Yes indeed, that xml is also equally important.

At the same time, once you copy all the relevant neo files to the server, you will have the restart the CF service. Then only the new settings would come into effect.

Regards,

Anit Kumar