New installation of CF10 vs upgrading from CF7 to CF10

Report · May 06, 2014

Greetings,

We have a Windows 2003 server running CF7, and we feel that we need to upgrade to CF10. We have been working on a new installation on a Windows Server 2012 machine, but have run into some snags. Someone suggested that it might be easier to upgrade from 7 to 10. We were concerned that upgrading in place might have unforeseen issues.

My question is this: is it better to build a new server with a clean install of CF10 and migrate our code, or should we leave the code in place on the existing server and upgrade to CF10? Additionally, when upgrading, can you go from CF7 to CF10, or do you have to step up to each version (7 to 8, 8 to 9, then 9 to 10)?

I would really appreciate some advice in this area. Thanks!

Jamie

Report · May 06, 2014

I always recommend a from-scratch install of ColdFusion. It will reduce

the possiblity of something going weird that would be very hard to diagnose.

You can install CF10 on the same server as CF7, then switch over the

webserver connector to point to the new CF10 instance.

DW

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Report · May 06, 2014

I like the idea of installing CF10 on the server and switching the connector. That sounds pretty worry-free to me. So, in this context, when upgrading to CF10, you aren't actually altering the CF7 installation at all, just putting another version of CF on the machine. Is that the way the installation program works? I don't see an "upgrade" option when I use the installer. I'm just curious, I want to make sure that we cover all the bases.

Jamie

Report · May 06, 2014

That is correct.

CF10 will install in it's own directory.

It comes down to how much downtime you can afford. If you can handle

this install with some downtime, you can unconfigure the web server

connector, then use the CF10 install process to configure your web

server during that install time.

If you want less downtime, you can leave the current server running, and

skip the web server connector section of the install.

You'll need to manually uninstall the web server connector on CF7 (there

are scripts in your CF7 directory for this), then manually run the web

server connector (in CF10) to get everything working.

Should everything go horribly wrong, you can uninstall the web server

connector on CF10, and reinstall the web server connector on CF7 and

you'll be back to where you were.

Do a dry run on your local environment so you can get a feel for this.

DW

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Report · May 06, 2014

We are going to first try this on our development server. If everything works as planned, we'll duplicate the process on the live server during a scheduled downtime.

Thanks for your help!

Jamie

Report · May 06, 2014

Yeah. That is what I would do.

I would also time the install process all the way through to successful

pages. That way, you will know what to expect for downtime.

I've seen cases where a customer had 300+ sites configured in IIS, and

it took over 6 hours for the web server connector to complete the work.

DW

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Report · May 09, 2014

Hi Jamie,

This install video might help : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhSPTmRozM

Another request : Please lockdown your ColdFusion 10 server, so that the server will be secure : http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf10/cf10-lockdown-guide.pd...

If you come across facing any issues while following the lockdown guide, send an e-mail to Adobe ColdFusion's support team : cf.install@adobe.com

HTH

Thanks

VJ