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July 16, 2008
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Windows Server 2003 and Cold Fusion

  • July 16, 2008
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Hello all,

Our webmaster recently retired, leaving me in charge of our intranet, which uses Cold Fusion. Now, I don't know much about CF, and our System Administrator just asked me if I had any problem with them running Cold Fusion 7 on a Windows Server 2003 box. It looks like they should be compatible, based on what I've read, but I wanted to know if anyone has experienced any pitfalls with this setup? I wanted an answer from someone "in the know" before I gave my folks bad info!

Thanks much!
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tclaremont
Inspiring
July 16, 2008
I would say that this particular combination of CF/Windows Servier is among the most popular. No problems on our boxes for the last couple years.
Inspiring
July 16, 2008
Bear in mind that you will probably want to use a different JVM than the one bundled with CF7 to avoid an issue related to time zones.

http://www.adobe.com/go/d2ab4470
S_AllenAuthor
Inspiring
July 16, 2008
Thanks, Ian! That's all I needed to know. :-)
Inspiring
July 16, 2008
S_Allen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Our webmaster recently retired, leaving me in charge of our intranet, which
> uses Cold Fusion. Now, I don't know much about CF, and our System
> Administrator just asked me if I had any problem with them running Cold Fusion
> 7 on a Windows Server 2003 box. It looks like they should be compatible, based
> on what I've read, but I wanted to know if anyone has experienced any pitfalls
> with this setup? I wanted an answer from someone "in the know" before I gave
> my folks bad info!
>
> Thanks much!
>

They work fine on our machines. The only real issue is that overzealous
Windows 2003 security precautions can be a hassle during installation.
But this is well documented and easily worked around.