Developer Web Server

Woribhabor, I'll address the 3 questions you asked.

1) First know that there is no interface for managing the built-in web server provided in ColdFusion. It's managed instead via XML files. There is some discussion of that in the CF "administration and configuration" manual. For example, in CF9:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf364104-7fd8.html

There is even more in the available JRun documentation (since JRun underlies CF and the web server is technically the JRun web server).

Finally, there was also an article on configuring it that brings together the key points from both:

http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/adv_development/config_builtin_webserver/index.html

To be clear, the built-in web server is not intended to be used for production. Both the installer and these docs clarify that over and over.

2) You ask what would be the "best recommendation for a simple webserver for windows7". It would seem IIS would be your best recommendation, since it's built-into Windows 7 (and Vista and XP).

That said, note that IIS 7 (which is what's built into Windows 7) is only formally supported by CF 9.0.1 (the free Updater 1 for CF 9). While you can try to make IIS 7 work for CF 9.0, or 8 or 7, it takes a fair bit of work, undocumented (though written of by many on various blog sites). If for some reason you could not run CF 9.0.1, and especially if you had any aversion to IIS, others will note of course that you can easily install Apache and use that. Each has their strengths and weaknesses depending on the audience.

3) Finally, you ask how to disabled the built-in web server. That too is done by modifying the appropriate xml file and setting. It's mentioned in the various docs, but perhaps the best single page to point to would be this:

http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/adv_development/config_builtin_webserver/config_builtin_webserver03.html

Hope that helps.

/charlie arehart

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