CF 9 - Please advice !!

[cf2010user]

Gurus,

I heard lot about CF. So trying to see what it got.

I am installing CF 9 multiserver with multiple instances to the cluster. My question is

1. On production server, will you advice to select REPLICATE SESSION and STICKY SESSION or only STICKY SESSION to stick the request on same server ?

2. I am not able to view my CFUSION administrator after I link cluster to the default web site, using webserver configuration tool. How to get the CFUSION administrator screen working ?

Please advice so that I can continue working with Coldfusion !!

Thanks,

Susan

[pete_freitag]

Hi Susan,

1) Most recommend using sticky sessions, because the session replication feature takes overhead to replicate the session data. There have also been some stabilitity issues linked to session replication in the past, I am not sure if those have been resolved in the latest versions, but the vast majority of clusters I've worked on use sticky sessions.

2) What do you get a 404? or 500? Make sure you have a virtual mapping for the /CFIDE on your website -- also I'd recommend checking out the CF9 Lockdown Guide to make sure you have protected your /CFIDE url properly (parts of it should not be exposed to the public espeically the /CFIDE/administrator and /CFIDE/adminapi ) among many other things. Make sure you apply all the security hotfixes as well.

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Pete Freitag

Foundeo Inc. 

ColdFusion Consulting & Products: HackMyCF / FuseGuard

[cf2010user]

Thanks Pete.