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February 18, 2013
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I require Coldfusion 8 Developer Edition but cannot find the link

  • February 18, 2013
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I specifically require Coldfusion 8 Developer Edition but cannot find the link anywhere. It appears as though links to it have been replaced with the Dev edition of CF10.

I require this for two reasons:

Firstly, it would be nice to be able to develop on my local PC rather than directly on the production site.

Secondly, the CFIDE folder has gone missing and I have been told that copying the one installed from a Dev edition will fix it.

Thank you.

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February 19, 2013

This is on Windows 2003 Server 32-bit.

I found the original CF8 install file (coldfusion-80-win.exe) and the update to 8.01 (coldfusion-801-win_updater.exe) and used them to install the Developer Edition onto my local PC.

I then zipped up the CFIDE folder and sent it to the server, and extracted it into the correct place (on my server, it was under C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot)

I had to change the CFIDE path in the \lib\neo-runtime.xml file to get around the "Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interface CFIDE.adminapi.security" error.

And now it all works again. Thank you for your advice.

Priyank Shrivastava.
Inspiring
February 18, 2013

Hi There,

I just sent a private msg to you, kindly let me know the Operating system.

Thanks

Priyank

Thanks, Priyank Shrivastava
WolfShade
Legend
February 18, 2013

The only way to get CF8, now (AFAIK) is to contact Adobe sales and ask if they have a link that will go to CF8 without redirecting to CF10.

The version of CF doesn't matter as far as local/production development - they all can be set for either.

Not sure if just copying the CFIDE folder will fix whatever issue you're having.  Likely you'll have to reinstall from scratch.

^_^