CF8 and CF7 at same time?

[Guest]

Hi,

I am running CF7 and I want to test and generally asses CF8 before I move all of our code over to it. It would be really useful to have both installed and running on my local machine for this.

Can I install CF8 whilst CF7 is still installed? And will I be able to switch easily between the two so I can see code running in both instances? I just want to use the in-built web server on my local machine, nothing fancy.

I've reviewed the other threads about installing CF8 after CF7, but none seem to address wanting to have both installed and running at the same time. I could run them on seperate machines, but I'd rather not if possible.

Thanks!

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

Yes you can easily have both. They just can not be using the same
web-server on the same port at the same time. The would be confusing.

If you do not know how to connect CF to different web servers and|or
ports then there is a bit of learning to do.

A common configuration is to have one version running on the CF built-in
web server on port 8300 and the other version running on a free IIS or
Apache web server running on port 80.

[Sankalan]

Yes, you can install both the versions on the same box like multiple instance installation. Need to be one different ports and web server as well.

Thanks

[Guest]

Thanks to both of you!