in-place upgrade of CF10 from 32-bit to 64-bit?

[ericbegins]

We initially installed CF10 32-bit because we had some legacy COM objects that needed to run.  We've finally gotten rid of those objects and I would like to convert to 64-bit.  Is there an easy way to convert/upgrade that would preserve all/most/some of my configuration?  Or do I have to do a complete uninstall/reinstall?

Windows Server 2008 R2

IIS 7.5

CF10 Standard

thanks!

[Carl Von Stetten · Accepted solution]

I recommend doing a clean uninstall/install.  You can make a copy of the neo-*.xml files found in \ColdFusion10\cfusion\lib somewhere first.  These .xml files contain most of the configuration settings you set in CF Administrator.  After installing the 64-bit version, make a backup of the clean .xml files somewhere safe, then copy over the ones you grabbed from your 32-bit installation.  That way, if ColdFusion restarts without issue, you are good to go.  If not, you have backups of clean .xml files to restore from.

-Carl V.

[ericbegins]

Thanks!  I ran through the process on a test server and it seems everything is pretty much intact.