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May 28, 2010
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Migrate the settings in ColdFusion Administrator to another server

  • May 28, 2010
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I'm sure there is an easy way to migrate the settings in ColdFusion 8 Administrator to another ColdFusion 8 server.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

David

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    ilssac
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2010

    Enterprise or Standard?

    The easiest way is to use the ColdFusion Archive (CAR) feature.  But that is an enterprise only feature.  The sneaky part, is if you temporarily remove the serial number from a Standard server, it becomes a Developer version, which has all the features of an Enterprise server, including the ability to make CAR files.  You can then export all the desired settings from one server, import them into another and then restore the license key.

    If you don't or can't do that, you go to the neo*.xml files which is where ColdFusion stores it's settings and copy them from one server to the other.  But I would do so very cautiously with lots of backing up and care.

    Finally, if one just has to be a masochist.  One can open the two administrator panels in separate Browser windows side by side and start copying from one to the other.

    DjonesAXAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    May 28, 2010

    "

    Finally, if one just has to be a masochist.  One can open the two administrator panels in separate Browser windows side by side and start copying from one to the other.

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    That is exactly what I am trying to avoid!

    The installations are developer editions, so that works out good.  I'll try the archives thanks.

    David

    DjonesAXAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    May 28, 2010

    By the way this is running on windows XP and Apache.

    David