Find and read the Release Notes.
Not in production yet. I've been installing and re-installing on a test server. I need to migrate an existing site, so I've been practicing. I have had problems, but as usual so far they seem mostly self inflicted. In a nutshell.... 1) Install to the default location (C:\CFUSIONMX), it just wasn't happy at D:\CFUSIONMX\ I never could get flashremoting working when it was installed to D. Find and read the Release Notes. 2) There are two important points that are not in the docs but are in the release notes. a) with IIS and multiple sites you need to turn off "cacheRealPath" which is on by default. b) there is a utility you can run to configure IIS and its sites. Its on the CD and is installed in <c: \cfusionmx\bin\connectors> there is a file to remove all connectors and another to add connector to IIS. My remove all connectors batch file has an error in it. the path to a file is incorrect its missing a "..\" (the line becomes ..\..\blahblah vs ..\blahblah) cause the file is one dir level higher than where the batch file thinks it is. Find and read the Release Notes. 3) the webroot again the default seems to give least headaches. c: \inetpub\wwwroot\ Find and read the Release Notes. 4) flash remoting seems to reside at what ever ip c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ has. This makes me unhappy as I prefer to assign 127.0.0.1 and an internal only IP and stop that site. Everything and its uncle installs stuff to the default web site. So as a precaution I'd rather it wasn't available. If needed, to say access cfadmin, I just restart the site. This seems to be a problem for me. But I'm sure there is some way to configure CFMX so that flash remoting listens on another sites IP. When I had CFMX on my D drive, the logs would say that flashservice started then a second later that the flashservice was destroyed. I emailed MM but never got a response. Guess its not an "Installation Issue". Its been 11 days since the email. Find and read the Release Notes. Problems I had. The cachRealPath=true is really dull. You get a lot of 404s and until you figure it out its a giant mystery, cause you look at the requested file's path and you see that its correct and the file is THERE, yet a 404. It was rather frustrating. Then I was getting "specified module could not be found" I still don't know what this means, but index.cfm files would not load if the url was http://www.mysite.com but was fine with http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm. No clue what's up with that. After running the remove all connectors and iis_connector its important to either reboot or stop CF and Web services and restart them. May seem obvious but... You may want to find and read the release notes :-) So I don't take this to be a negative rant, just hoping this will save you some hassle. The above little points have taken me about two weeks to figure out, I do have better things to do. I've played with Flash remoting and I do like it. I also like CFCs. I like the new debugging style, however I find it confusing. If I add up the individual execution times it does not equal the "Total Execution Time". BTW I hate installing software to its default location. Its lame. Its worse when said software has trouble running from a location other than the default. Oh one more thing. I visited the MM forums and in the CF security forum someone posted a java snippet that returns the CFAdmin password, unencrypted of course. Seems to me you need to be aware of java issues now and another reason why you don't want a dir with cfide in it to be publicly available, ever. Good luck. -steve "Shane Von Svoboda" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <svonsvoboda@pav cc: liks.com> Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] Question about Flash Remoting Sent by: owner-cfug@cfugt oronto.org 07/15/02 10:37 AM Please respond to CFTALK Thanks Steve, Have you implemented this technique on any of your projects in production? How do you like it? Have you come across any bugs? Regards, Shane von Svoboda -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFTALKTor] Question about Flash Remoting You only need to install CFMX. The remoting components are native, so there is nothing extra to install with CFMX. You do have to install the remoting components with FlashMX. They are not installed by default. FWIW, when you install CFMX you are installing JRun 4. -steve "Shane Von Svoboda" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <svonsvoboda@pav cc: liks.com> Subject: [CFTALKTor] Question about Flash Remoting Sent by: owner-cfug@cfugt oronto.org 07/15/02 10:01 AM Please respond to CFTALK Anybody using Flash Remoting yet? Do you need to install Jrun 4 or can I just install the new ColdFusion MX with the Flash Remoting Components? If anyone has any tips or if I can chat with any of you for 15 minutes, just to get me started I would really appreciate it. Regards, Shane von Svoboda - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: "Shane Von Svoboda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net) - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. 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