berniedolan

Officially Running ColdFusion 8

September 26, 2007

I finally got around to installing CF8 on the VPS I share with Brian at Vivio. I'm happy to report the installation was about as uneventful as I could have hoped for -- absolutely no problems. Vivio uses CentOS for their VPS accounts, so I ran the CF8 Linux installer and just followed the prompts. At one point, it asked me to shut down the CF7 search service. No problem. Just opened another telnet session and...

cd /opt/coldfusionmx7/bin
./cfmxsearch stop

After letting the installation complete, I started CF8. On first start it updated the Apache config to point at the new install (recycling Apache in the process). Next, I logged into the CF administrator and a few clicks later all the CF7 settings had been migrated over and everything was running fine. Better than fine actually -- noticeably faster. Last step was to remove ColdFusion 7 services from the init scripts. I did this using the chkconfig utility...

chkconfig --del cfmx7search
chkconfig --del coldfusionmx7

Done! Ahhhh. I guess those pesky Solaris boxes at work need some love now too... ;)