Sorry Mike, I was out 4-wheelin Fri - Sun. =) As some other posters mentioned, keep your context root separate, then share a web-root. If you need to migrate configuration settings, just archive them as a .CAR from your cf-admin and copy that file to your 2nd (nth) server and import. If you need any details feel free to contact me off list.
Chris Peterson Gainey IT Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer -----Original Message----- From: M Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 4:59 PM To: CF-Server Subject: Re: How to create more than one instance with same webroot Chris, CFMX7 Ent. Ed. To clarify: If I have siteA on server#1 (in IIS) with content root of \\nas\siteA, and if I have siteA on server#2 with same root of \\nas\siteA and run CF pages all is well - there is no CF clustering at this point. But I'd like to cluster these 2 sites. So in the CFAdmin on server#1 I use the Instance Manager to create this instance#1 for siteA. I specify the server directory as \\nas\siteA. All is well. Now if I use the CFAdmin on server#2 and create an intance for siteA on server#2 (giving it a unique name) and specify the same root of \\nas\siteA the creation will error with a CF error in the admin saying this directory already exists (which it does). So the creation of this instance on server#2 fails. Seems like each instance needs a unique web root but I need to keep the content in one place so the client can deal with it. Thanks for your input! Mike >Mike, > >This is exactly what I am doing here. I have a Cisco content switch >with 2 CF servers both serving multiple sites from a shared source on a >3rd server. > >Mine is a windows based system. Setup IIS to have the home folder >located on another server, and point both servers to the shared 3rd UNC >path. You can enter authentication credentials here as well. Each >instance of Coldfusion should be separate on their own servers, and >have their own configuration. > >Can you clarify where you are getting stuck at? > > > >Chris Peterson >Gainey IT >Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer Hi, > >In a Win2003 server environment 2 load balanced web servers have the >web root content in a single location on a third shared NAS. Creating >one instance on server#1 and pointing at the NAS UNC path is easy. But >creating instance#2 on server #2 and pointing it at the same web root >on the NAS produces error that this content root already exists. How >can I create multiple instances (to cluster) that point at the same web root? > >Thanks, >Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Server/message.cfm/messageid:6401 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Server/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.10
