Setting up a test server

[RuBot]

I have ColdFusion MX 7 installed on a server, and now I want to install it on
our test server. The license allows for a test server to be setup, what is the
process by which I achieve this?

During the install, I entered the Serial Code again (once for the live
platform, and again for the test platform on a different machine).

Was I supposed to just select 'Developer's Edition' at the onset of the
installation process?

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

RuBot wrote:

> I have ColdFusion MX 7 installed on a server, and now I want to install it on
> our test server. The license allows for a test server to be setup, what is the
> process by which I achieve this?

What type of license do you have? Did you purchase a license or is this
simply the developer edition that you downloaded?

> During the install, I entered the Serial Code again (once for the live
> platform, and again for the test platform on a different machine).
>
> Was I supposed to just select 'Developer's Edition' at the onset of the
> installation process?

That depends--if you purchased a license, that allows you to run CF on a
single physical server with 2 processors. You can't use that same
license simultaneously on a second machine. You can use the developer
edition, which doesn't require a serial number, but the developer
edition is limited to connections from localhost and two external IP
addresses.

Matt

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Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[RuBot]

Thanks Matt, I think that's what I was going for. During the install you can
just select 'Developer's Edition' which is what they mean when they advertise
being able to have a production server and a server setup as a test.

Thanks

[RuBot]

I have two different machines, one "Intranet" is the live server with
ColdFusion intalled on it. The other is "test-intranet" which is the
development server. I need to install ColdFusion as Developer's Edition. The
server has a DNS name of [url]http://test-intranet.firstbankak.com[/url] will that still
be able to be used? What is the [url]http://localhost[/url] aspect?

In dreamweaver I notice the "manage sites". How does that work with the
Production and Test server. How will I work this out?

Please help, Thanks! :)

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

RuBot wrote:

> I have two different machines, one "Intranet" is the live server with
> ColdFusion intalled on it. The other is "test-intranet" which is the
> development server. I need to install ColdFusion as Developer's Edition. The
> server has a DNS name of [url]http://test-intranet.firstbankak.com[/url] will that still
> be able to be used? What is the [url]http://localhost[/url] aspect?

The developer edition cannot be used on publicly accessible sites. If
the server doesn't violate the connection limitations of the developer
edition you can use it with a domain name, but it will only allow
connections from localhost + 2 other "external" IP addresses.

> In dreamweaver I notice the "manage sites". How does that work with the
> Production and Test server. How will I work this out?

You'd create one site for the production server and one for the test server.

--
Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[RuBot]

Ok, now I have two sites created: Intranet and Test-Intranet.

Under Local Info, Intranet has v:\ as the local root folder, refresh auto
checked, and [url]http://intranet.firstbankak.com[/url] as the HTTP address, with cache
enabled. Remote and testing server is set as None.

Test-Intranet is set with O: as the local root folder and the HTTP is
[url]http://test-intranet.firstbankak.com[/url]

It's still not working. When I display a page using F12, it says I need to
configure a test server etc.

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

RuBot wrote:

> Ok, now I have two sites created: Intranet and Test-Intranet.
>
> Under Local Info, Intranet has v:\ as the local root folder, refresh auto
> checked, and [url]http://intranet.firstbankak.com[/url] as the HTTP address, with cache
> enabled. Remote and testing server is set as None.
>
> Test-Intranet is set with O: as the local root folder and the HTTP is
> [url]http://test-intranet.firstbankak.com[/url]
>
> It's still not working. When I display a page using F12, it says I need to
> configure a test server etc.
>
>
>
>

That's really more a Dreamweaver question than a CF question, but to ask
the obvious, did you configure your testing server settings in DW?

--
Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion