Upgrading to CF 9.0.1

[dongzky]

Any good links or documentations on how to properly upgrade from cf 9 to cf 9.0.1? It seems so difficult to find one. Even here in Adobe site! Why release an update when there is no proper documentation with it?!!! (It seems like a college project where everyone is too lazy to create documentations).   Or maybe it's just me. Maybe there are some documentations out there. But if anyone can help, please share for all OS if possible (Solaris, Windows, Linux, Unix, etc...). Hope I am wrong as I am writing this. Hope these documentations are just around the corner.

[dongzky]

i guess i was wrong, i have found this finally: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/901/cf901install.pdf

[mkane1]

Funny, I came to this forum just now to post a complaintabout the upgrade process. I'll do that in another post.

While helpful, the document you referred to is probably not enough. I am in the process of upgrading several CF8 servers to CF9. I tried a few weeks ago, but the install bombed migrating datasources etc.. I installed CF9 on a new server last week, and decided I had to get CF9 on the rest of my servers. A couple of things might help.

ETA: I forgot to mention that this is for installing CF 9.0.0 When done, you should then update it to 9.0.1 (The inconvenience of *that* process is what I am going to complain about in another post!) For me, I decided to apply the Hotfix 900001 or whatever the number is, and *then* apply the 9.0.1 update. That seems to have been successful. It might have been unneccessary to apply the hotfix before upgrading, but based on my 15 years of experience with Cold Fusion (esepcailly the last 10m years), I thought it prudent.

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Apparently, a lot of people had the same error that I got the first time: the migration wizard bombs, displaying a cfdump that starts with "The DataSource service is not available, so Adobe posted a fix for that problem: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/527/cpsid_52797.html

Steps to apply the fix:

   1. Download CFIDE-9.zip
   2. Make a backup of migrationcf8_import.cfm and migrationcf8_export.cfm in <cfwebroot>\CFIDE\administrator\setup\
   3. Extract migrationcf8_import.cfm and migrationcf8_export.cfm from the CFIDE-9.zip file.
   4. Copy migrationcf8_import.cfm and migrationcf8_export.cfm to <cfwebroot>\CFIDE\administrator\setup\
   5. Run the Migration Wizard.

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That was enough for me, but apparently some people had more trouble. Adobe posted an article on running migration the wizard after install:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/WSe9cbe5cf462523a07f098214121c918ef8c-8000.html

If you have skipped the migration or you have to make modifications to the previous installation that has to be migrated, do the following:

   1. Stop the server.
   2. Save settings by copying the files cf_webapp_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/neo-*.xml (of previous installation) to a directory named cfXsettings (in which X is the earlier version of ColdFusion) in the cf_webapp_new_installation_root_directory/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib directory.

   3. Edit the ColdFusion 9 cfusion/lib/adminconfig.xml file by setting the value of the runmigrationwizard and the migratecfX (in which X is the earlier version of ColdFusion) switch to true.

   4. Restart the ColdFusion 9 application.
   5. Browse to ColdFusion Administrator to run the migration wizard.