Re: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-13 Thread Dusty Hale
Steve thanks for the info. I'm familiar with configuring a hosts file on a Windows machine. I'm not sure if the IP on my VM is dynamically assigned or not so this is a concern. I seem to remember in the past hitting an IIS site on the VM from the mac side and always having to change the IP. If you

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-13 Thread Steve Ross
Yup, That is my setup. Simply install CF and create a DSN to your VM. I typically like to add something to my /etc/hosts to point to sql server incase you dynamically assign an IP for your VM. So I have in my /etc/hosts a definition for "sql.vm" and point that at the IP for my VM's sql server inst

[ACFUG Discuss] running coldfusion apps on Mac

2012-11-13 Thread Dusty Hale
I'm loading up VMWare and Win 7 Pro on a new macbook and was planning to install CF and SQL Server on Win 7 virtual machine. However, this is just a thought and I'm curious if anyone has ever run a CF server on the Mac side but use an SQL Server database that would reside on the Win 7 virtual machi