CF8 on Mac OSX Leopard

[Guest]

Hi All

Got my new Macbook Pro (OSX version 10.5.2), need to setup CF8.... I tried installing CF8 using the Mac's Apache Web Server and ran into configuration issues. Ran out of time, so I uninstalled and tried to install CF8 using CF's built in web server (and run from port 8500). I got the same result - I couldn't run CF because it wouldn't start, couldn't bring up http://127.0.0.1:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm

Does anyone have a straight forward path of installing CF8 on the Mac OSX Leopard? I have uninstalled CF and don't want to move forward until I get a warm and fuzzy from someone who's already done this.... anyone?

Thanks in advance,

Rich

[Kronin555]

Rich,

A quick google will turn up all you need. And yes, I have it running. My configuration is standalone, using Apache.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=CF+8+Leopard&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/30/Running-ColdFusion-8-on-Leopard
http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F3B244CB-F72B-BEEF-3B37CC644E2935...
http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/27/Running-ColdFusion-8-on-Leopard
http://www.scottpinkston.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/29/ColdFusion-8-on-Leopard-with-Apache--an-answe...
http://blog.econtentpark.com/2007/06/18/Configuring-Apache-ColdFusion-and-virtual-hosts-for-MacOS-X

[Guest]

Thanks for all of the links, I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately, I'm not the only one who seems to continue to struggle with even getting the cfadmin page to even display. I've chased installs and uninstalls all day to no avail with Apache and now I've tried the stand alone webserver version and that won't come up, the web page just hangs and doesn't even throw an error, it's been running for a half hour now. I can see that 2 Coldfusion processes are in fact running via the Activity Monitor but now I'm not certain what to try as the ol, reliable stand alone server won't even work.

Has anyone gotten the CF installation to work on Mac Leopard with the stand alone webserver? Did you have to do anything other than run the CF installer?

Thanks,

Rich

[Guest]

... just heard from Ben Forta: Since Leopard came out after CF8 technically it's unsupported, but any day Adobe will release an updater for Leopard....

Anyone have any success with the stand alone server, port 8500? I turned off web sharing and rebooted, just for grins, and localhost:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm still just runs and runs, no messages or feedback at all. Anyone?

Thanks in advance,

Rich

[craigkaminsky]

Hi, Rich,

I have CF8 installed on my MacBook Pro (10.5.2) and running on JRun4 via port 8300 (originally, I had it on port 8500 but had to do a reinstall and it moved it to 8300). However, the only way I got it running was to install it on top of JRun 4.

One thing I do not do is have CF start on the Mac system startup. I use an AppleScript to start and a separate AppleScript to stop CF8 when I need to start running CF.

I've noticed that, on occasion, JRun will not start properly. Typically, when I start CF8 with my AppleScript, I open Activity Monitor to watch JRun start. If there is going to be an issue, it'll hang on or around 120 MB of RAM. If not, it skips by the 120s and continues loading.

If CF/JRun does hang on startup, I force quit the process from Activity Monitor and then re-run the CF Startup Script. This doesn't happen too often and it's never hung twice in a row.

I hope this helps somewhat.

Best,
Craig

[Guest]

Craig-
Thanks for the insight, I'll definitely try your scripts out. FWIW: I grabbed the following messages from my cfserver.log when I try to launch CF using the ColdFusionLauncher:


04/03 16:27:26 Information [main] - Starting archive...
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.
autorestart: Process died in less than 30 seconds; not restarting

Anyone have any idea what this means?

Thanks,

Rich

[Newsgroup_User]

Using one of the previously supplied links, I have CF7 working on my MBP
under Tiger - but for CF8 on the new iMac/leopard, I've opted to wait for
the official supported release from Adobe.
If you have first hand knowledge from Ben that its not far away, I'm more
than happy to wait a little bit longer and persevere developing on my trusty
MBP. ;-)
Brendon

"rich.leach" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ft2k22$t0n$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> ... just heard from Ben Forta: Since Leopard came out after CF8
> technically
> it's unsupported, but any day Adobe will release an updater for
> Leopard....
>
> Anyone have any success with the stand alone server, port 8500? I turned
> off
> web sharing and rebooted, just for grins, and
> localhost:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm still just runs and runs, no
> messages or feedback at all. Anyone?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rich
>

[craigkaminsky]

Rich-

You've probably seen by now that CF 8.0.1 is out and has full Leopard support. I just ran the update without any problems and am happy to report that the CF Launcher services/scripts that install with the server worked! They did not work on pre-8.0.1 builds. Yeah!

Hopefully this version will alleviate any and all of your issues.

Cheers,
Craig

[Guest]

Yes, downloading as we speak! I'm so excited! Question: Other than running ColdFusion's uninstaller, do you know of anything else I need to clean up in order to run this new installer? Do you know if the new installer will work with Apache? I couldn't find any details about what all exactly this new Leopard installer handles....

Thanks again for your help and support!

Rich