> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:06, mike pop <[email protected]> wrote:
Are you the Mike Poplawski I used to know? > Specifically, how is building an application with Cold Fusion (Windows) > different than Cold Fusion (Linux). I > thought Linux uses forward slashes as opposed to back slashes. What are the > other gotchas in using CF8 > (Linux)? There really aren't any significant differences, believe it or not! As David mentioned, Linux filesystems are case-sensitive, so any references to specific files need to keep that in mind. Also, the files Application.cfc, Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm need to be named just like that to be found on a case-sensitive filesystem. You can't use MS Access datasources from Linux, but pretty much everything else with regard to datasources is the same. CF runs very reliably on Linux, in my experience. The biggest problem is initial configuration, especially permissions. Default permissions on Windows are quite lax, but on Linux and Unix in general, you have to know what things need what permissions. That said, it's pretty easy to set this up. If you grant the CF user account full permissions over the CF install directory (typically /opt/coldfusion if I recall correctly) and read permissions over the web root directory, that'll let CF pages run. If you need CF to write to parts of the web root, you'll need to set permissions accordingly there as well. You use chmod from the command line to do this; you'll have learned all about chmod if you set up a Linux server. Good luck! Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more informatio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-linux/message.cfm/messageid:4488 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-linux/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
