ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hot fix 2 on OS X Lion

Sep 16

posted by Wil Genovese in ColdFusion | 12 Comments

The Adobe ColdFusion team have released: ColdFusion 9.0.1 : Cumulative Hot fix 2. The this link http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/918/cpsid_91836.html. One of the items that caught my attention is the bug forx for OS X Lion.

Bug # 86992 ColdFusion multiserver instance does not start properly on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.x).

I downloaded the Hot Fix and started the whole process from scratch. I had already blown away my ColdFusion 9 from my MacBook Pro which has OS X Lion to I could try another version of ColdFusion.

  1. clean up my system
  2. Install ColdFusion 9.0 in multi server mode
  3. Test real quick - yes 9.0 is running (it always did)
  4. Install ColdFusion 9.0.1 in Multi-server mode
  5. Test real quick, no it won't even start (which is also normal)
  6. Install ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hot fix 2
  7. Test real quick and yes it runs.
However, one bug still remains that I can see. The ColdFusion Admin Settings Summary and Info pages DO NOT LOAD.

I've done a reboot a couple of times now and still no luck. But at least ColdFusion 9.0.1 Multi Server is running on OSX Lion.

This entry was posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM and has received 2797 views. There are currently 12 comments. Print this entry.

Fully Operational SVN and Task Tracking and Publishing System

Sep 9

posted by Wil Genovese in SVN/Version Control | 0 Comments

The CF Webtools tag line is "You Dream it We Build it", including SVN servers.

Keeping it in house
CF Webtools has been using it's own task and project tracking system for years. Over this time it's grown. It keeps track of clients, hours of dev work, hours paid by clients, projects, project tracks/tasks and a lot more. It does what CF Webtools needs and it will be expanding as more needs come up. But it does not integrate with anything (or it didn't used to). We also run our own SVN server as well as numerous development and staging servers. All needed to maintain the clients dev/staging sites for ongoing work.

Mark Kruger, aka. ColdFusion Muse believes in keeping these services in house as much as possible. I know people will argue the cost of do it yourself, verses someone hosting it for you. But, there are other reasons being considered as well. We're keeping it in house. However, it finally came to a point where we needed a better SVN system and some integration.

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This entry was posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM and has received 2469 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

GoDaddy Discontinues ColdFusion Hosting

Sep 1

posted by Wil Genovese in ColdFusion | 19 Comments

The news hitting the "Twitterverse" as I type this short blog post is that GoDaddy has just sent out emails to their ColdFusion hosting customers informing them that GoDaddy is going to discontinue ColdFusion hosting in 3 months.

"After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue support for ColdFusion®. The product will officially remain available to Go Daddy customers for three months, until November 29, 2011. After that date, ColdFusion websites hosted by Go Daddy will not work.

We will not be removing customer content from the system -- your files will remain safely in our hosting datacenter. Because your current hosting account offers additional languages (PHP on Linux and Windows plans, and .NET on Windows plans), we hope you will find an alternative to your current ColdFusion implementation. Additionally, Deluxe and Ultimate plans offer Ruby, Perl and Python as language options.

Should you decide to move your files, please review the following help articles: Moving Directories Using the FTP File Manager and Using the File Manager to Move Files Between Directories.

If you have further questions or concerns, contact our customer service department at 480-505-8877.

Thanks for being a Go Daddy customer.

Bob Parsons
CEO and Founder
GoDaddy.com

No matter what your or my opinion(s) are of GoDaddy and their ColdFusion hosting business, the facts are people need to move to a new host fast.

There are other ColdFusion Hosting companies. Adobe has a page listing their ColdFusion Hosting Partners. These are the ones I know of off hand.

While working with CF Webtools, I have the opportunity to work with Edgeweb hosting a lot. These guys are awesome. They support, and I mean SUPPORT, their clients. I do recommend Edgeweb based on my experience with them.

Also, if you are looking for high quality ColdFusion programming and hosting I will shamelessly plug Mark Kruger, a.k.a. ColdFusion Muse, and his team at CF Webtools, which includes me. ;-)

this was an unsolicited message

Update: I removed one company due to the number of complaints I've heard.

This entry was posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM and has received 3626 views. There are currently 19 comments. Print this entry.