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November 18, 2009
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CF on JBoss

  • November 18, 2009
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Currently we are running four separate instances of ColdFusion 8 Enterprise which are using the bundled JRun server attached to Apache2. I have them split up using virtual machines on ESXi.

We just purchased CF 9 which I will be setting up on a new server and then migrating our applications over, but I am wondering if I would be better off just avoiding ESXi and intead running these 4 separate CF instances on one install of JBoss. In the past I toyed around with running several instances of CF8 on Tomcat 6, which I had working (for the most part), except I never got the virtual domains working correctly and the proxy between apache<>tomcat didn't seem to be working properly.

I just chucked that previous attempt at Tomcat expecially since it isn't an officially supported platform by Adobe. Looking around online I can find very little information about running on a J2EE server... will Tomcat 6 work fine (since it is the core to Jboss)? Should I use JBoss or am I better off the way I am with separate instances of JRun on Virtual Machines?

Thanks for any input.

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    pdonlinAuthor
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    November 20, 2009

    I did get CF 8 and 9 up and running on JBoss 5.1 the same day I made my first post and also got virtual hosts working with apache/ajp. Everything seems to be working quite well actually, and now that I am using jboss's rewrite engine instead of apache's I suppose I don't even need the apache part of the equation anymore.

    But, I still have that question in the back of my mind of if this setup is worth the extra effort. Should this setup be more stable or efficient? I have noticed that if I need to restart a CF instance it is alot quicker to stop/start the EAR (or even stop/start JBoss entirely) than it is to stop/start JRun. JBoss will fully startup with 6 instances in under a minute where the CF service would take several minutes.

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    Anonymous
    December 17, 2009

    I'm running into this same problem. I have JBoss and CF9 set up and working with Apache and mod_proxy. There are going to be 3 or 4 more instances of CF set up on this box but I'm having a hard time trying to figure it all out.

    I have CF deployed as an .ear in JBoss. Say I have 4 other CF apps that I want to get going. I can just make seperate .war folders under cfusion.ear and deploy that way, correct? They don't seem to deploy, what else do I need to configure? Do I need to copy the CFIDE and WEB-INF these .war folders and change the jboss-web.xml?

    I'm also having issues trying to configure the server.xml for the virtual hosts. Can you give me any examples or point me in the right direction?

    Thanks!

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    pdonlinAuthor
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    December 21, 2009

    Yes, the JAVA_HOME variable is set to the correct (and only) JDK instance. I also followed that help article when setting up JBoss and CF9 so I'm kind of at a loss on what to do next...

    I found this article http://daveshuck.instantspot.com/blog/2009/05/08/Solving-javalangSecurityException-Seed-must-be-between-20-and-64-bytes-Only-8-bytes-supplied but its referring to JRun.


    Sorry I completely forgot about that (what I get for not documenting as I go). You need to edit the bin/run.sh (bin/run.bat in your case) and down around like 230 you should see a JAVA_OPTS property. Replace this with...

    JAVA_OPTS="-Dcoldfusion.disablejsafe=true $JAVA_OPTS"

    -Patrick

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