upgrade from CF6 to CF8 server

Question

Hi people,

sorry to duplicate but posted this in General Discussion.

I have a local server running CF 6 that i do local testing on
all my client sites running cf 5 - 7. A new client is running ver 8
and i was thinking of upgrading my local server... ???s

is it a bugfree deal. will cf 8 just overwrite cf 6 server
and keep all the data, rds, custom tags, pointers to local files,
etc or do i have to reapply all that.

will i have problems when testing cf 5 sites... these sites
are fairly conservative tag wise but i am worried some tages may be
depreciated to the point of gone... or radically rewritten.

anything else i need to be aware of would be appreciated

dell latitude d800, xp pro sp3, msSQL server2000 and the
Macromedia MX studio. i have already updated HS and Dreamweaver
with new tag updates.

tnx in advance

Anonymous · Answer

I recently upgraded from MX 6.1 to 8 Std, and it went fairly well. CF8 does copy a lot of settings from previous installations. Using IIS I was able to to run them both simultaneously on different ports until I had worked out the kinks with CF8. Some of my cfcs and custom tags did not work upon upgrading, but that was the biggest problem I had.
I would recommend being as careful as possible when upgrading on a production server though--always be prepared for the worst.

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