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November 30, 2011
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Cold Fusion to work with Control Panels?

  • November 30, 2011
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Hi everyone. I have a rather serious question I planned on getting some input from before I tackle it. A customer is wanting to transfer a cold fusion site to my servers however I do not as yet have cold fusion running. I have the software but I am concerned about it making changes to the server that are going to interfere with the Enkompass Control panel I have running on it primarily.

Initially I was thinking of deploying an additional server and just hosting the cold fusion software on it however I don't see the justification of spending x dollars a month for 1 customer to have a cold fusion site. I've gone to the developers of Enkompass and lo and behold its not designed to function with cold fusion.

Here's my question. In lieu of deploying a whole new server and rolling it as a webserver with the sole purpose of employing cold fusion is there a way to install it on the primary server and just have the control panel recognize the mime type to associate it with the cold fusion engine? Or would it be simply easier to redesign the cold fusion site into a php based site. (almost as much of a headache and not completely sure the customer would be okay with it.)

The server has more than enough ram (32G) to handle the additional programs. I'm just more or less concerned about the incompatability issue between the panel itself and the engine.

If no one can answer here can anyone point me to a forum where there are alot of CF developers and users that have done some out of the box installations with this thing? I am entirely new to CF and didn't really know it's growing like it is.

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    Community Expert
    November 30, 2011

    While CF won't work with the control panel, in all likelihood it won't affect the control panel either. So, you should be able to install it and just manage it separately through its own management console (CF Administrator). You can certainly have CF and PHP coexist on the same virtual server. That said, I'd try testing it in a non-production environment first.

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
    Participant
    November 30, 2011

    I would imagine it would work on virtual servers, and thanks for responding to my question. But in theory would it be ok on a physical machine with no virtual servers setup.

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    Community Expert
    November 30, 2011

    I'm sorry, but that's not what I meant by "virtual servers". I meant "virtual web servers" - in other words, an IIS site or Apache VirtualHost. A single virtual server can run multiple scripting engines (CF, PHP, etc) as long as the extensions don't conflict.

    Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC