Installing ColdFusion 8 & Apache 2.2.4 HTTP Server

08/03/2007 | ColdFusion | 10 Comments

In the past it was a pain in the but installing Apache 2.2.4 with ColdFusion. With the release of ColdFusion 8 though that has all changed. The install was a breeze and I was up and running in a matter of minutes. I would like to show you a quick walk through of how I install to install it my local development environment. The first thing you need to do is go grab the installers needed for this tutorial. I will be using the latest version of Apache HTTP server and ColdFusion 8.

Download ColdFusion8
Download Apache HTTP Server

Once you have the installers downloaded we are ready to go. I am going to try something a little new here today and I would really appreciate your comments on how this turns out. Instead of taking a bunch of screen shots like I normally do I am going to record some screen casts minus the audio. Again, please let me know what you think. I am going to split the screen casts into 2 so I can add some notes above each. A quick warning to you as well, the computer that I am doing this on is very slow!

Part I - Apache HTTP Server
The first screen cast is just my setup of Apache HTTP. You will need to input your own settings for your server and where you want to install it. You will also see an error at the end, please just ignore that.

Part II - ColdFusion 8

In the first part of installation we configure out development settings. I will tell it that it is a developer edition, put in my administrator and RDS passwords & configure my apache settings. Turns out my screen cast can only be 5 minutes long so I split it up into 2 parts

Part III - ColdFusion 8 (cont)

Finally we end our installation and login to the administrator. You will notice that if you browse to a directory with index.cfm in it apache does not know to serve that file as a default document. I also run through a quick setting to change that.

 

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• #1 by Chris on 8/3/07 - 3:38 PM

  

  I wish it was that easy for me. I have Apache 2.2.4 installed for CF 7, tried a CF8 upgrade, but it declined saying that I didn't have a new enough version of Apache. So install from scratch it is.

• #2 by Dan Vega on 8/3/07 - 3:44 PM

  

  Chris,
  Wish I could be of help but I have been running ColdFusion 8 beta for awhile now. Hope the clean install works for you.

• #3 by Chris Phillips on 8/8/07 - 7:21 PM

  

  Clicking the video links get's me a 404.php on screencast's site.

• #4 by Dan on 8/8/07 - 7:25 PM

  

  I apologize to all. I just received a notificaiton today that my bandwidth for Jing this month was up. I did not realize I had a restriction on uploaded videos. Luckily I saved the .swf files so I should be able to embed the videos or host them on YouTube.

• #5 by Dan Vega on 8/10/07 - 4:39 PM

  

  All ~ Fixed the bandwidth issue by moving the swf files to my server. There are no longer any controls over playback but you should be able to watch them now. Please let me know if you have any problems.

• #6 by Adam on 9/1/07 - 4:49 PM

  

  I think the format of the presentation is great! The only problem I had was that I'm running at 1024 res and couldn't see the whole thing. I didn't even get scroll bars, which I thought was odd.

• #7 by Adrian on 10/30/08 - 1:53 AM

  

  Question: I have a CF8 dev server at home - installed as a standalone server. Now I have a client who has an Apache & CF8 environment and I need to set it up to be able to develop. Is there an easy way to just install Apache (which I have already) and then change the settings in the CF Admin - or will I need to install CF8 new (not as standalone server).
  Thanks.

• #8 by Chris Phillips on 10/31/08 - 12:18 PM

  

  @Adrian,
  
  You would probably need to have installed as the "Multi - Server" configuration. However, you could look in your Start menu under the ColdFusion folder and see if there is a "Web Server Configuration Tool" item in there (mine is a shortcut to C:\JRun4\bin\wsconfig.exe). That is the tool that you use to configure a web server to parse CFML pages.

• #9 by Jim Papaleo on 10/1/09 - 3:28 PM

  

  I've got CF7.1 running with Apache 2.x. (production setup)in a reverse proxy setup. Two servers CF inside the firewall and Apache Web server is on the firewall.
  
  I just installed CF8 (upgrade)on the CF server in parallel with the CF7 sever.
  
  I want both CF7 & CF8 to share the web files located c:/inetpub/wwwroot/pti/
  
  I'm having trouble getting the Apache server to see the new CF8 server. What do I need to configure to make both both servers serve pages
  
  thanks, Jim

• #10 by Dan Vega on 10/2/09 - 3:58 PM

  

  I am not sure how you are going to get both of the running side by side like that. When I had 2 versions running like that (8+9) I had running in a multi server environment and the other as its own self contained server.