Tonight I’m installing ColdFusion 8 at home. So far the install has gone very smoothly. Installed Apache 2 first and then ran the installer for CF8.
One place I got stuck was during the CF install it asked me the location for my Apache binaries. I had no idea and the examples the installer suggested were all for Red Hat related systems.
A quick Google turned up this handy reference: Distros Default Layout on the Apache wiki.
Debian, Ubuntu (Apache 2):
ServerRoot :: /etc/apache2
DocumentRoot :: /var/www
Apache Config Files :: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Default VHost Config :: /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
Module Locations :: /etc/apache2/mods-available, /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ErrorLog :: /var/log/apache2/error.log
AccessLog :: /var/log/apache2/access.log
cgi-bin :: /usr/lib/cgi-bin
binaries (apachectl) :: /usr/sbin
start/stop :: /etc/init.d/apache2 (start|stop|graceful|configtest)
What was really funny is before starting I did a quick Google on “ubuntu coldfusion” and one of the top links was a post here I had made some time ago called ColdFusion Install on Ubuntu which had some useful links – though most of those dealt with ColdFusion 7.
Update: Great ColdFusion 8 / Ubuntu installation guide on Adrian J. Moreno iknowkungfoo site.
http://www.iknowkungfoo.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/6/The-ACME-Guide-64bit-Ubuntu-804-Edition-Part-1
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I too installed CF8 on Ubuntu, but when I load http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/ the page is full of symbols as if it where trying to read it but displays it encoded or something, is there a way to fix this issue?
Can you post a screenshot somewhere? Can you pull up the default Apache page by just visiting http://127.0.0.1/ ??
@Jim – You need to go to /opt/coldfusion8/bin then run this: sudo ./coldfusion start
Is it possible to configure apache2 after you choice the build in web server(port 8300)?
Thanks,
John
I’d probably reinstall. I had to run the installer twice because the first time I realized it was running on Apache 1. So I had to uninstall Apache, install Apache2 and then I re-ran the CF installer with no problems.
Hi Jim,
I’m looking at moving my development environment to Ubuntu from Windows (I already use Apache and MySQL etc).
Are you running Ubuntu desktop or server? Can I just run desktop then install what I need?
– Apache
– MySQL
– SMTP
– etc
Or do you think I’m better off going with ’server’?
Thanks for you time!
Server typically doesn’t have any desktop components installed – so if you have another computer you can use for your day to day tasks – then server is the way to go. Otherwise there is nothing that prevents you from installing Apache, etc on the desktop…
Great, thanks Jim
Jim ,
to make the server conf a little easier but still have all the nifty gui goodies i typically install the server edition and then put a gui on by doing the following
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Regards,
JKZfixme
Jesse – that’s a great idea!!
I have tried repeatedly to install CF8 on ubuntu gutsy both as stand alone and with apache. The install goes fine but I keep getting 500 Null pointer errors. The two things I see repeadedly is a cannot find cluster manager instance (or something like that) and cannot open a security.properties file (which is there)
any ideas?
@Kebab – No idea? Is this a fresh install or an upgrade? Are you using Apache2? Did you download the correct installer?? Not sure why you would see anything regarding clusters???
fresh install. I tried cf7 last night with the same result. I am wondering if it’s permissions problem. I created a cfusion user (when it asks for a default user to run the service). Not sure if I have to give it specific permissions or not.
I am using apache2 but i also tried installing as a stand alone. yeah I am pretty sure its the correct installer. its the linux installer. and it installs fine (no error messages)
one more thing… I am trying to install it on Ubuntu gutsy. Not sure if it has to be something like fedora or not.
Kebab – I’m running ColdFusion on Gutsy w/no issues. I can’t remember when I installed ColdFusion if it was under the su account or using my normal one. I didn’t create a unique account just for ColdFusion.
Something I ran into after a successful install of ColdFusion 8 is that letter spacing in PDFs was way too large. My documents L O O K E D like that, and the system didn’t respond to the letter-spacing style no matter what I tried. Nobody else on the net has reported this issue. Was it just me?
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