CF10 Update 11 with IIS 6 in Distributed Mode: Tomcat Connector & Multiple Web Sites??

[spellbmw]

Our agency has been running CF in distributed mode since CF6.  We know how to use the JRun Connector with multiple IIS 6 web sites on multiple physical hosts to connect to multiple CF clusters hosted on separate physical servers.

I am doing a test installation with a fully licensed version of CF10  Enterprise to make a recommendation to management as to whether or not  we should upgrade to CF10 when we move to WIndows 2012 R2 and IIS 8.5 in  2014 or perhaps stay on CF9.0.x for a few more years & skip CF10.   CF9 has been stable for years.

There was a lot of help documentation with the JRun Connector and technotes regarding how to run ColdFusion in distributed mode; unfortunately, I cannot say the same for CF10 and the Tomcat connector. 

I do not want all web sites to be configured for ColdFusion; some of the web sites are purely .NET.

I tried the manual configuration of the connector, but the server returns the dreaded "Incorrect function" error message.

The Tomcat connector does not recognize the CF10 clusters on the remote CF10 clustered servers; I have found no documentation on how to get that to work in distributed mode.

So, what I need is HELP getting the connector to work in 'distributed mode'; I've spent two days on this already and am not happy with the difficulty of making the connector to work and the lack of Adobe documentation to deal with it. 

Can anyone at Adobe help me figure this out for distributed mode?

Thanks,

Scott

[Adam Cameron.]

Adobe offer free installation support, so they might be one avenue to explore: http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/free-coldfusion-installation-support-from-adobe

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Adam

[spellbmw]

Thanks, Adam.  Will contact Adobe for install support after I have reinstalled CF10 on Windows 2012 and (try to) connect from IIS8 to the ColdFusion clusters

Message was edited by: spellbmw - delaying support contact with Adobe until I re-deploy CF10 on Windows 2012 and IIS8

[vishu_13]

Hi

Taking an example of a Distributed Environment where you have ColdFusion 10 insatlled on first server --> S1 (say 2008 R2) and ColdFusion 10 instlled on 2 second server --> S2 (say 2008 R2).

IIS 7.5 is configured with S1. Now there should be a cluster on S1 that conatins ColdFusion 10 instances cfusion(C1) of S1 and cfusion (C2) of S2.

Then using WebServer Configuration tool, create connector on S1 for this cluster.

Is this the type of environment you are looking for?

Check this : http://forums.adobe.com/message/5614954#5614954

Thanks

VJ

[spellbmw]

Thanks, VJ, but we are on hold as we reconsider our options.  We have some complex web sites that integrate CF9+Java+Flex-Remoting within multiple clusters and CF10's custom version of Tomcat is not sufficient for our requirements.   I am considering our J2EE server options.  I do not see any installation instructions for Apache Tomcat - the standard [non-Adobe] version.