Does CF and the Web Server have to reside on the same physical box?

[Pbbt]

Basically I just need to know if we can put the web server on one box and the CF server on another. Anyone know if this is even possible?

[Newsgroup_User]

Pbbt wrote:
> Basically I just need to know if we can put the web server on one box and the CF server on another. Anyone know if this is even possible?

Yup, and you can have as many web server boxes connected to one CF
server as you care to load it down with. The web server needs on small
piece of ColdFusion on it, the 'web server connector tool'. When you
run this tool the first field is the computer name of the ColdFusion
server. It defaults to 'localhost' but in your situation you would
provide the name of the ColdFusion server on your network.

[DCwebGuy]

Out of curiosity, why would someone want to separate CF from the Web server(s)?

It is because of licensing? For example, buy one CF license but have it serve multiple boxes?

If it's because scalability, do tell! I am working on a high availability project right now.

[Newsgroup_User]

DCwebGuy wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why would someone want to separate CF from the Web server(s)?
>
> It is because of licensing? For example, buy one CF license but have it serve
> multiple boxes?
>
> If it's because scalability, do tell! I am working on a high availability
> project right now.
>

Either or both or more. I have never actually done this myself. My
work is on atomic cooperate intranet sites or small hosted ColdFusion
web sites. But I am aware of the capability of ColdFusion to be in a
different layer if one so desires.

I can imaging this could allow more control of the load. You can have
ColdFusion running on a beefy web server designed for the heavy lifting
of the site, and the static web content one one or more less expensive
web servers feeding it.

Maybe somebody with more experience with do this will chime in.