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rogz
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June 18, 2008
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Upgrading from CF7 to CF8 - delete CF 7 after install?

  • June 18, 2008
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hello there

We have recently purchased the CF8 upgrade to upgrade our CF7 installations. I have went through the upgrade on a development box successfully but noticed that CF7 is still installed (services have been stopped) after the CF8 upgrade has been run. Im curious as to the best practice with the CF7 installation, should i just leave it installed and ensure the services are stopped or should i uninstalled CF7. The server is just running our internal application and we are not hosting any other sites.

thanks
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Nick Way
Inspiring
June 22, 2008
how did you get on with this rogz? (not that i see you as a guniea pig or anything mate ;)
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Anonymous
June 18, 2008
If you have the space, and CFMX7 is not running, then that should be fine. There is no "best practice" link or technote that I could find to address your concern, but if you want to uninstall CFMX 7, you can just backup the CFusionMX7 directory and uninstall. your CFMX7 settings are stored in your CFusionMX7/lib directory under the neo-*.xml files. More info on this technote: http://www.adobe.com/go/94a16ba6

HTH
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Anonymous
June 20, 2008
The only caution with uninstalling the previous version of ColdFusion is that it will try to uninstall/delete its webroot/CFIDE. If you have a webroot/CFIDE that is now CF8's, it will be deleted. The workaround is to make a copy of CFIDE in advance. Then run the cfmx7 uninstall. If your CFIDE disappears, simply restore from your copy.

If the /CFIDE in your webroot is a virtual directory pointing to coldfusion8/wwwroot/CFIDE, you can simply recreate the virtual directory in IIS.
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