We're working very hard to get the installation experience as bulletproof as we can make it. We've rewritten the installer, and added several layers of bulletproofing ate every step along the way to try to make the process as easy as possible.
One of the main areas people ran into trouble with CFMX installation was getting the web server connectors installed. Unfortunately, the JRun gear (wsconfig) the CFMX installer relied on to get this done needed some bulletproofing as well, and so we've gone in and done significant work on that gear and the connectors themselves as well. Significant stability and configuration bulletproofing went into the connectors and config utility in CFMX Updater 3 and JRun4 Updater 2. In many cases, if customers installed CFMX (Gold), then immediately updated to Updater 3, ran the connector .bat scripts in the bin directory, they'd be all set. Again, we're definitely aware of the delta between the CF5 and CFMX installation experiences and we're working on it... ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Quick note from the CF Team.... From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:40:39 -0500 Thread: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messages&threadid=24423&forumid=4#122781 Thank you for that, Damon. Hopefully what ever the MM team does, a part of the energy is spent on the InstallShield (or whichever installer you choose) scripting, which will help the user install the server product on a multi-homed server, and not the very insecure default web site (wwwroot) Should virtual directories need creating and/or choices need to be made, this should all be done via the installer scripts. I also hope and pray that the improvements when released, will not require customers to re-purchase the product just to get it to install. For those who install the product on a single homed server, rarely are install problems encountered. Also kudos to Sean and others of the MM marketing team, even though some of them prefer to use Macs (grin) for their attempts to help, and for communicating the users' problems up the line. A lesser concern is the uninstaller routine, it should be scripted to do a complete and clean removal of the product on the first run of the installer. For Michael, the installation of UD3 is not specific to SQL2000 database, it crashes the entire server, as in lockup. The log files usually always indicate errors with JRUN. If anyone has comments or additions to my procedures, please let me know and I will add them to the page. On the other hand, the installation on Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Apache 2.xx was straight forward and went right the first try. My Linux sysadmin had nothing but good to say about it. I look forward to becoming (again) an enthusiastic evangelist for ColdFusion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
