Verity Search Server on Macintosh

[pwizzard]

I was intending to use the ColdFusion Verity Search Service but the service is unable in the ColdFusion Administrator. It would seem the server needs to be installed separately but the link in LiveDocs is unavailable, I’m using CF8 developer on a Macintosh, if anyone knows where I can find the installation software that would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Dave Watts · Accepted solution]

There's no Mac version of Verity. That feature is unavailable on the Mac.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

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[pwizzard]

Thanks for that, I was starting to fear this may be the case.

[Charlie Arehart]

I don't know about that, pwizzard. Here's something else to consider. While there's no "Mac" installer, there is a Linux one. I think that will work for you. Note that you do need to have a license key for CF to get to it. (In other words, this won't work if you're using the Developer edition, because it has no license key.)

Short answer:

Go to the page, https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=verity, enter your CF license key (standard or enterprise), and download the installer (for Linux) from there. Let us know if it works

It's also unfortunate that the /go/verity/ link fails. While we can't change the CF8 licvedocs page you found, I did change the corresponding CF9 page to offer the link above.

Long answer:

As for how I figured out that this may be what you need, here's what I did, in case any of it may help you or others in the future.

First, I recalled that there was a page of installers that went along with CF. I couldn't remember the link, but I trusted that the Adobe CF site would get me there.

- I went to the CF front page (can be found via google): http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/

- choose link in lower right of right nav bar for CF8: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/coldfusion8/

- choose link to download trial

- log in (if you don't want to login, just keep reading).

- choose link for "related ColdFusion downloads": http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html

- and note that you could also just visit that link directly, now that you know it, without needing to log in

- there, it offers a section on "Verity (language packs and standalone installer)", and it has the link I offered above

Admittedly, that page says that the installer is meant for installing Verity on a machine separate from CF, so I wondered if it was what you really needed. I decided to search google for help (coldfusion install verity) and found this http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=othertechnologies_06.html. I guess that's the page you had found, because it offers a link to get to the installer, as http://www.adobe.com/go/verity, which fails (and because this is the CF8 docs, we can't even update it with a corrected link if we find one.)

But note that these help pages offer a popup box that offers a link to the CF9 docs: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/index.html. Unfortunately, that goes to the front page of the docs. You need to note where you were on the previous page (bummer). At the top of the CF8 doc page, we see that the page was within "Installing and Using ColdFusion / Installing Integrated Technologies". We can select that from the CF docs front page, which opens to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cdec18c28-7ff1.html.

The link for the verity page itself is http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cdec18969-7ffd.html. Sadly, that page (almost identical to the CF8 one) also has that failing link, but at least we can update the page with the proper one.

I wasn't positive that it was the right link, until I did some more digging. (FWIW, I tried to find any old version of the go/verity page at archive.org, but no luck. Returning to the google search results list, I did find this, though: http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/verity_reg/register/index.cgi. That looked just like the first link offered above, though only for CF7, so I was more confident that the first link I offered is indeed what you need.)

I thought to search google for the specific phrase "adobe.com/go/verity", and there it found a couple of other CF9 doc pages, and one of them (https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=verity) did also have the bad /go/verity link, and someone offered in a comment a link to (again) the original download page I offered (https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=verity). So that really seems the right page, and I have added a comment to http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cdec18969-7ffd.html.

One last thing: while the download page doesn’t have an OS X-specific installer, the help page does mention OS X and says getting this installer is the solution, and it does offer a Linux installer to look for, so I suppose that's what you are supposed to you. One thing that still has me a little suspect of things is that I did use a key to get to that download page, and I see the filename offered for the Linux installer is "coldfusion-search-lin.bin", not the "ColdFusion_9_Verity_linux.bin name offered". But maybe it's just a doc inconsistency.

Anyway let us know if it helps.

/charlie

[Dave Watts]

The Linux installer isn't going to work on OS X. While the Adobe help page mentions OS X, it doesn't provide a solution for OS X. Linux binaries generally won't run on OS X.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

http://www.figleaf.com/

http://training.figleaf.com/

[Charlie Arehart]

OK, Dave, thanks. That's why I hedged my wording there. I was assuming the help page was right in mentioning OS X, and I recall now that it's Unix that underlies OS X instead. And sure enough, there is no Unix installer.

FWIW, I did a little digging and found a blog entry from a Rob Barthle, who happens to mention you Dave, in a solution he used to get around this limitation. May not suit everyone, but worth noting:

http://www.barthle.com/blog/post.cfm/what-i-learned-today-have-your-cf9-on-os-x-and-your-verity-too

/charlie

[pwizzard]

Thanks for the suggestions, as there didn’t seem to be a quick fix and as my Mac is an Intel machine I installed WAMP and the Windows version of the ColdFusion Developer software, all seems to be working OK.