I started to write a reply and decided to just post it to my blog: http://www.iknowkungfoo.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/24/Moving-Coldfusion-applications-from-Windows-to-Linux
I didn't address CFX tags though. IIRC, you may need versions of those tags that have been compiled on Linux. If the CFX tag is a .DLL file, you may be out of luck. HTH, Adrian >We're going to be undertaking a long-overdue upgrade from CF5 to CFMX 7.1. >At the same time we're considering moving from a Win2k server with IIS to >Linux and Apache. > >Obviously we're dealing with two issues - moving from CF5 to CFMX 7.1 and >moving to Linux, so we're wondering if doing both at the same time may be >too much. > >We use about a dozen CFX tags, so that's one issue to deal with. > >Most of our data is in MySQL. But another issue we face is that a couple >of legacy applications use Access via ODBC. The databases are complex >enough and the applications so seldom used that migrating these to MySQL >isn't really feasible. I'm not sure what that means should we move to >Linux. > >What other problems might we expect to encounter? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279079 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
