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November 4, 2009
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Can I get some help with CF8 and Unix from this forum?

  • November 4, 2009
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I did my dev in my local machine running windowsXP and CF8

In prod. environment, my CF8 runs in Unix and I'm not familiar with Unix at all.

My manager is out for awhile and I want to do this if I could without waiting for him because in windows it is very simple.

Here is what I did in windows and I think I should do the same in unix but unfortunately I don't know how:

In Windows environment I have done the following successfully and easy:

1. installed/moved a .exe file in 2 folders: 1. in cfx folder under Coldfusion8 folder and

                                                            2. and again in CFClasses folder under WEB-INF folder

2. Then in CF8 administrator I went to SERVER SETTINGS >> Java and JVM >> under ColdFusion Class Path, I put: c:\Coldfusion8\cfx\cfx_myexe.jar >> submit

3. Under CFX Tags >> clicked REGISTER Java CFX >> I put: cfx_myexe in Tag Name and the same in Class Name  >>submit

Then when I go to my application, everything work as a charm!

How can I do these things in Unix?

When I logged into CF server in unix using my FTP FileZilla, I immediately see /space/users/www , so I'm in the root directory. I can't see anything above this directory

In windows, CFX is found under ColdFusion8 folder AND cfclasses is found under WEB-INF folder like this:

C:/ColdFusion8/www/WEB-INF/cfclasses

All my CF files for the application are on C:/Inetpub/www/myfolder/

So my questions are:

1. How can I access point 1 using my FTP to move my exe file to the right folders

2. Since I don't have CF administrator interface with Unix, how can I do point 2 and 3 above????

I have searched on this forum if someone had this problem in the past and also googled it but I got no result.

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ilssac
Inspiring
November 4, 2009

1)  If the account you use to FTP to the site does not give you permissions to the ColdFusion instlation directories, you will need to ask permission from whomever in your organization provides those permissions.

2) You would run the same ColdFusion administrator tool.  It is usually located at yourwebsite-domain/cfide/administrator/

If it is not located at this location, you need to ask whomever controls your ColdFusion server where it is located and how you should access it.

In otherwords, these are not general problems that we can help you with much.  These are specific problems dealing with your organizaiton and how it has configured its systems and network.

aleckenAuthor
Known Participant
November 5, 2009

hi Ian, thanks so much for giving me this tips. I usually do everything solo and never feel the need to ask the administrator to give me access. Now that I work at different company where unix is used to host my CF8 server I'm still not use to not having access entirely like before.

thanks again, so I guess I need to do some calling.