Distributed ColdFusion

[TFMX]

Is it absolutely necessary to have the ColdFusion files on both the Web Server
and the App Server? The Web Server is running IIS and the App Server is
running ColdFusion MX 7.1 Enterprise. ColdFusion 5.0 did not require the
ColdFusion files to be on both machines. Maybe there is some kind of registry
hack or something.

[LinuxInductee]

Actually no. The Web server holds your static content and the web
connector, which points back to to your J2EE app server containing
your CFMX application, which holds your .cfm,cfc files.

In my distributed situation I was using Apache 2; however, I doubt
there would be any differences based on the HTTP server.

This distributed infrastructure approach is designed to split the code
into two places and macromedia recommends the split. Because some
people were putting all content back to the J2EE layer for simplicity
in deployment, performance was dragging. This, as you well know, puts
extra burden on the CFMX application to host static content when that
is what the HTTP layer is supposed to be optimally designed for. That
and the needless extra communication involved with hosting static
content from the app server layer both will drain resources and
performance dramatically depending on usage.

So are you having a problem? Are you sure your web connector is
configured properly?