Export Server Configuration - MX6

Rick, the link you gave was to the CFML Reference. That won't help you at all in exporting server configurations.

Instead, that's a feature of the CF Admin, and so you'd want to look at the "Configuring and Administering CF" manual, and of course you'd want it for CF 6, not CF9. They're offered at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/documentation.html. Unfortunately, while the links to the PDFs there work, the links to the HTML versions do not, and sadly it can't even be found via the good ole "internet wayback machine":

But regardless, you'll face a different annoyance even if you find the docs, in that you say you're running CF Standard. That license of CF does not provide a way to export CF Admin settings. That's only an Enterprise feature, found in the Packaging & Deployment option on the left nav bar, for "ColdFusion Archives", which you won't even see in CF Standard.

But here's a trick, which if this is a production machine you should only do at an off hour, when you can stop your web site. If you remove your CF license key (from the "system information" page in the CF Admin), that will revert CF to "Developer" mode, which is the full Enterprise functionality--but limited to allowing only up to 3 IP addresses to connect to CF. That's why you need to not only do this at an off hour, but it would be best if you could stop your web sites, or at least all but that which you need to get to the CF Admin.

Then you can export the settings, and import them into another Enterprise or Developer edition of CF.

As for step-by-step instructions for the process of creating the archives (a car file), there are many out on the web, such as:

http://www.iknowkungfoo.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/5/Yo-Adrian-How-do-I-backup-my-ColdFusion-Admin-settings

http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/coldfusion_archive_and_deploy.cfm

or a simplified checklist at:

http://www.code-complete.com/code/index.php?/archives/21-Using-Coldfusion-Archives-to-migrate-datasources.html

Hope that helps.

/charlie arehart

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