IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting as root. Can anyone offer any tips and what they do that works well? Is there an issue or special consideration with ColdFusion Developer edition in

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Cobb
ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you do it. I know in XP (and pretty sure about Vista), IIS can only have 1 website. You can only have multiple sites in IIS on a server OS. There are

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dominic Watson
Indeed, if you're dev environment is not a server, and you're working on a desktop/laptop look at this for creating multiple sites in IIS: http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/multiple_websites_xp.htm Then, create a seperate domain for each site in your hosts file, resolving it to 127.0.0.1 i.e.

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is.  If you're talking about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you do it.  I know in XP (and pretty sure about Vista), IIS can only have 1 website.  You can only have multiple sites in IIS on a server OS. This is not

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Greg Luce
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites. Greg On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Eric Cobb cft...@ecartech.com wrote: ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you do it. I know in XP

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Cobb
Sweet! I wasn't sure about 7 (haven't used it yet), but I didn't realize that about Vista. I've never had a need to check. That's good to know. Thanks, Eric Cobb http://www.cfgears.com Dave Watts wrote: ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking about

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jason Fisher
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for spoofing URLs in development. c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites. Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites. Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition? No. It's working just fine for me, right this minute. The developer edition just limits incoming connections to a handful of IP addresses. No edition limits how many

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for spoofing URLs in development. c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this. I created a new site in IIS with a host name of www.beta.test.com I then added the new site in the hosts file

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for spoofing URLs in development. c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this. I created a new

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Sergey Croitor
Use iis_multilex addon for IIS. It works fine on WinXP. --- Sergey Croitor On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeff F cftalk_l...@fongemie.com wrote: I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting as

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Sergey Croitor
iis_multiplex is a correct name. I've typed it wrong in previous email. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeff F cftalk_l...@fongemie.com wrote: I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting as root.

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
I believe that you also have to add www.beta.solo.com to IIS. If the site is using host headers (exclusively) and gets one that isn't defined then it throws an error. Steve My typing mistake. I did add www.beta.solo.com to IIS, not www.beta.test.com as I wrote earlier. That part is straight

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this. I created a new site in IIS with a host name of www.beta.test.com I then added the new site in the hosts file as 127.0.0.1 www.beta.solo.com When I browse to www.beta.solo.com I get server 500 error of the IsapiModule. If I remember, this

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
My typing mistake. I did add www.beta.solo.com to IIS, not www.beta.test.com as I wrote earlier. That part is straight forward:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753195%28WS.10%29.aspx With IIS 7, you'll have to enable IIS 6 compatibility, too. Google IIS 7 coldfusion for more

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
Did you map CF to all IIS virtual servers using wsconfig? If not, did you map CF to this virtual server? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ I just did, I think and still no luck. Using the Webserver Configuration tool, I add

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
Using the Webserver Configuration tool, I add www.beta.solo.com in the field JRun Host, under IIS website I left it as All and checked the Configure web server for Coldfusion 8 Applications. I restarted Coldfusion and I get the same error. That error does look familiar, as I've seen when

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread brad
Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites From: Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com Date: Fri, January 08, 2010 10:31 am To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Roberts
) Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Cobb [mailto:cft...@ecartech.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:55 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking about setting

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Roberts
/windows/system32/drivers/etc/ Eric -Original Message- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 8:26 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites Indeed, if you're dev environment

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Roberts
practices for setting up multiple sites IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites. Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Eric Roberts
[mailto:cftalk_l...@fongemie.com] Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:42 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites I believe that you also have to add www.beta.solo.com to IIS. If the site is using host headers (exclusively) and gets one

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Jeff F
Just a follow up. I got it working using everything as I listed above, but when I was using the web server configuration tool it wasn't working. Dave was correct, I needed to go into the Application pool settings in IIS and Enable 32-bit applications as the default setting. I reran the Web

Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Watts
I got it working using everything as I listed above, but when I was using the web server configuration tool it wasn't working. Dave was correct, I needed to go into the Application pool settings in IIS and Enable 32-bit applications as the default setting. I reran the Web Config

RE: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up multiple sites

2010-01-08 Thread Justin Scott
There are hacks and specialty software you can use to get around this, but natively IIS isn't going to let you do it. That is not the case with Windows 7 Pro and IIS 7.5 (I do not know about previous versions). With IIS 7.5 running on Windows 7 Pro here on my laptop I have a number of sites