Except that the installer will not finish the installation correctly, because the connectors will never get setup correctly. As they will not run on Windows 8 or above.
But if you know how to manually set them up, all will be good. Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Charlie Arehart <charlie_li...@carehart.org > wrote: > OK, here finally is what you can do, Mike (or anyone interested) to get > things running. > > I mentioned below that the “fusionator” blog post had talked about the > process, and the key is that he suggests you extract the ColdFusion > installer exe (yep, it is basically a zip, as an exe), and then he mentions > “replacing the JRE” that comes with that with a more updated one (which > does support Windows 8 or 10, such as Java 8 or perhaps later editions of > Java 7). He doesn’t say anything more than that (about that process), so I > assume he really meant “copy/paste” the JRE folder from an updated JVM to > that folder in the extraction of the exe. (He also doesn’t give details > about “what” JVM should be used. I will, below.) > > While you can do that, you don’t really have to. > > That same extracted folder (mine was > C:\Users\charlie\Downloads\ColdFusion_9_WWEJ_win64\) will also have a > \Windows folder, and in there will be a adobe_cf.lax, which is somewhat > like CF’s jvm.config, as it’s a property file of JVM args for the > installer. In that file, there will be a line: > > lax.nl.current.vm=resource\\jre\\bin\\java.exe > > This is what points the installer to the JVM that’s included with the > installer itself (and it’s that JVM which doesn’t work on Windows 10 or > 8.1). But my point is that you can just change that to point to an > “updated” JRE\JVM path that you can obtain. > > But here’s a catch: as I review that lax file, it seems clear that it > expects a 32-bit JVM (even if the CF you are installing is 64-bit). Again, > this is just about the JVM for the *INSTALLER*, and so it must bundle > (inside that exe) a 32-bit jvm. So if we are going to point it at another, > then we need that to be a 32-bit JVM. > > I did it by pointing at a 32-bit Java 8 JDK that I got (at > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html). > I could have gotten a JRE instead, but I tend to just always get JDKs. I > really don’t think it matters in this case. But it HAS TO BE 32-bit, or the > next steps will not work. When I installed that JDK, it installed to > C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_51, and THAT is where I needed to > point the lax file (coming up). The “program files (x86) tells you that it > was a 32-bit JVM. (Something that one may miss: when you’re running the > installer for Java, there is a screen with various options you can choose, > one of which is whether to install it as a “public jre”. There are good > reasons to tend to favor NOT doing that, which is what I always do, and if > you do that, then this path I point to is where it will be installed, by > default. > > So with that in place, I changed the line in the lax file to: > > lax.nl.current.vm=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_51\\bin\\java.exe > > Note the use of double-slashes. This is just a necessary hassle with Java > on Windows. (And while it could point to the jre\bin, within the JDK > folder, it was not necessary.) > > Finally, as “the fusionator” goes on to say in his post, you then do also > want to right-click the installer exe (in that extracted folder), > adobe_cf.exe, and enable windows 7 compatibility. (Otherwise, the installer > will start but then complain that “installer user interface mode not > supported”.) Then you run that adobe_cf.exe (not needing it to be run “as > admin”, in my testing). > > Once I did all this, the CF9 installer now did launch. > > So no, my approach (of editing the lax file) is not necessarily fewer > steps than “the fusionator”’s approach of “just copying/replacing the JRE > folders”, but it seems a bit safer in case something goes amiss. It’s > easier to undo and try again, which I needed to do for various reasons in > getting this all working. > > So Mike, there you go. With either what the fusionator shared (and my > additional info about the “right” JVM to get), and copy/pasting over the > JRE that comes with the installer, or with my tweak here to just edit the > lax file to point to it elsewhere, you should be able to get the CF9 > installer running on Windows 10. > > Let us know how you get on, if you try it. (And again, let’s not lament, > “why does Adobe make it so difficult?” Again, this CF9 installer was > created in 2012, before Windows 10 came out. And they DID add support for > Windows 8 in an update of CF10 and in CF11 out of the box. I’m sure we’ll > see an update for CF11 to support Windows 10, and maybe CF10, and certainly > CF12 will support it out of the box.) And before saying “Lucee or Railo > don’t have this problem”, be sure you’re looking at an installer of theirs > from 2012 or before, or it’s just not an apples-to-apples comparison. > > HTH. > > /charlie > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
