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Inspiring
December 4, 2012
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ColdFusion 10 Off-Line Updates

  • December 4, 2012
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Our developement server is not connected to the internet.  We cannot upgrade our production server until we are sure everything works on the new version.  Where are the CF10 updates posted for off-line updates?  The only one I can find for downloading is the CF10 Mandatory Update.

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Correct answer vamsee_k

You can do the following:

From internet-enabled machine:

1. Access http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/xml/updates.xml and save updates.xml to some folder, say, updates. You can use "Save As" in Chrome or View-Source in IE to save the file

2. Access http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/hotfix_005.jar to save the latest update jar file to the same folder

On your development server:

1. Copy the updates folder (with updates.xml and hotfix_005.jar) to your webroot (for example, c:\Coldfusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\)

2. Edit updates.xml to modify "cfhf_downloadlink" for "ColdFusion 10 Update 5" item to point to the update jar file location in your coldfusion webroot (for example, http://[ip]:[port]/updates/hotfix_005.jar)

3. In ColdFusion Administrator -> Server Updates -> Settings, change local site to point to updates.xml file (for example, http://[ip]:[port]/updates/updates.xml)

4. Cick on "Check for Updates" to get the update to show in "Available Updates"

5. Logout and log back in (if required)

In case you want earlier updates (say, Update 4 and earlier) too, download the required update jar file and change the corresponding "cfhf_downloadlink" entry in updates.xml for that update (as described above)

Hope that helps.

For more details, please check http://www.krishnap.com/

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Inspiring
December 4, 2012

All updates are pushed through the ColdFusion Administrator in ColdFusion 10, so you would need an internet facing machine to download the update. You could use the local site option (see Settings tab of the Server Updates page of the ColdFusion Administrator) to get the update on your development server. For detailed information, check "Server Updates" section of ColdFusion 10 documentation or refer to http://www.krishnap.com/

Inspiring
December 4, 2012

Connecting the server to the inernet is not an option for security reasons.  I understand I can move them from the production server to the development server, if we set up the production server.  But I cannot set up the produciton server until I prove our existing code will work on it with all patches applied.  Why doesn't Adobe make these files available for download?

vamsee_kCorrect answer
Inspiring
December 4, 2012

You can do the following:

From internet-enabled machine:

1. Access http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/xml/updates.xml and save updates.xml to some folder, say, updates. You can use "Save As" in Chrome or View-Source in IE to save the file

2. Access http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/hotfix_005.jar to save the latest update jar file to the same folder

On your development server:

1. Copy the updates folder (with updates.xml and hotfix_005.jar) to your webroot (for example, c:\Coldfusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\)

2. Edit updates.xml to modify "cfhf_downloadlink" for "ColdFusion 10 Update 5" item to point to the update jar file location in your coldfusion webroot (for example, http://[ip]:[port]/updates/hotfix_005.jar)

3. In ColdFusion Administrator -> Server Updates -> Settings, change local site to point to updates.xml file (for example, http://[ip]:[port]/updates/updates.xml)

4. Cick on "Check for Updates" to get the update to show in "Available Updates"

5. Logout and log back in (if required)

In case you want earlier updates (say, Update 4 and earlier) too, download the required update jar file and change the corresponding "cfhf_downloadlink" entry in updates.xml for that update (as described above)

Hope that helps.

For more details, please check http://www.krishnap.com/