Help - Transfer ColdFusion site to new server?

you need to have CF installed on that server to process the tags, and the WEB server needs to understand to process .cfm files using the CF server software.

Try creating a hello.html file with the infamous "Hello World!".  Point your browser to the URL\hello.html to determine if the DNS is being resolved to the correct server.  If it is then change the file name to hello.cfm and point your browser to the new file.  If nothing is being displayed then coldfusion isn't configured for that directory.  Is this an Apache or IIS box?

Kevin

It's pretty simple, actually. A CF site is basically just a directory with a bunch of files, and a few settings within the CF server itself. First, you'll need to catalog these settings so you can create them on the new server. Then, copy the files from the old server to the new server, make any necessary adjustments if paths are different on the two servers, and you're all set.

It's possible for CF developers to write setup scripts that will actually take care of all this, but my assumption is that you don't have one of those for this application.

Finally, you don't need to have CF installed locally on your own computer. You don't need anything other than a text editor on your own computer, and a network connection to the CF server's filesystem. That said, it's much easier to develop CF sites with CF locally installed, as you can fiddle around with the server easier. The developer version of CF is free for just this purpose.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software