Upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• July 12, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we installed ColdFusion MX 6.1 and ColdFusion MX 7.0.1. In this guide, we'll be leaving our installation of ColdFusion MX 6.1, and upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 to 7.0.2. Downloading the updater ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 can either be downloaded as a full installer, or as a simple updater. Since we've already installed 7.0.1, we can just use the updater. Go to http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html and download the current updater, ColdFusion MX 7 Updater 2 (7.

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XML parsing with PHP (and ColdFusion) and /ROOT

• April 20, 2006
• James Skemp

Last night, I was working through a great tutorial that steps through how to create a basic XML parser in PHP. Unfortunately, what I was going to use it for (a local Attention Recorder parser) isn't going to be possible, since the extension's XML isn't quite valid. I was hoping to at least get /ROOT Vaults to work today, in that case, but no dice on support.  So, I'll be attempting to reset my password once again, in the hope that it was just a two day problem .

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Installing ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• March 31, 2006
• James Skemp

Note: For information on updating to ColdFusion MX 7.0.2, see Upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server. Update: October 10, 2006 @ 7:11 pm - Thanks to Michael Bryce for his helpful comments regarding this documentation. In this article, we'll be walking through an installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1, Developer's Edition. Since we've already covered the installation of ColdFusion MX 6.1, Developer's Edition, you may already have CFMX 6.

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Adding PostgreSQL connectivity to ColdFusion MX on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• March 19, 2006
• James Skemp

Having already added MySQL support for ColdFusion MX, it's time to look at adding PostgreSQL. For many of the same reasons we installed PostgreSQL with PHP, we'll be doing this to add to our potential resources. However, unlike our connection of MySQL with ColdFusion MX, we'll need to install some additional features to ColdFusion MX. (This guide assumes you've already installed PostgreSQL.) Downloading and installing the JDBC Driver The first thing we'll need to do is install a special driver for ColdFusion.

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Adding MySQL connectivity to ColdFusion MX on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• March 18, 2006
• James Skemp

Until now, we've yet to setup a connection to MySQL from ColdFusion MX. This has meant that while we can do cool database things in PHP (like WordPress), we can't in ColdFusion. Until now. This time, we'll be setting up MySQL 4.1.18 and ColdFusion MX 6.1 on our local server. Because of some of the choices that we've made before, this installation is going to be fairly quick. Setting up MySQL database and user First, we'll need to setup a MySQL database and user for ColdFusion.

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Installing ColdFusion on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• February 27, 2006
• James Skemp

In this tutorial, we'll be working through an installation of ColdFusion MX 6.1, Developer's Edition, on a local, Windows-based, Apache server. On this server, we've setup Apache, PHP, and MySQL, but will also want to have the ability to work with ColdFusion code (however, not necessarily on the same sites that we'll be using PHP). We'll be doing this to experience a more corporate Web-programming language – corporate primarily because of the costs associated with ColdFusion.

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A local, Apache Web server, on a Windows XP computer

• February 27, 2006
• James Skemp

My intention is to write a number of guides that will help someone build a functional Web server for testing purposes. Since Windows is fairly popular, I've decided to outline how to install Web server programs on it. Since Apache is both powerful and free, I've opted to use it as the core, instead of IIS, or the like. I also plan on keeping the various technologies up-to-date, yet continuing to provide the instructions for past versions used, just in case.

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