Best practice for running multiple sites on 1 CF install?

[richardELeach]

Hi-

I'm setting up a new hosting environment (Windows Server 2008 Standard 64 bit VPS  configuration, MySQL, IIS 7, CF 9)

Has anyone seen any docs or can anyone suggest best practices for configuring multiple sites in this environment? At this point I'm thinking simple is best, one new site in IIS for each client (domain) and point it to CF.

Given this environment, is anyone aware of any gotchas within the setup of CF 9 on IIS 7?

Thank you in advance,

Rich

[Dave Watts]

There's nothing wrong with that approach. You can run as many IIS sites as you like against a single CF install.

As for installing CF on IIS 7, I recommend that you do the following: install CF 9 without connecting it to IIS, then installing the 9.0.1 upgrade and any hotfixes, then connecting CF to IIS using the web server configuration utility. This will keep you from having to install the IIS 6 compatibility layer that's needed with CF 9 but not with CF 9.0.1.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

http://www.figleaf.com/

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