Running ColdFusion 8 on Leopard

Posted At : October 27, 2007 7:04 PM | Posted By : Mark Drew
Related Categories: coldfusion, apple

I have had a few people ping me on IM telling me that they had some problems running ColdFusion 8 on Leopard. Well, I havent had any problems but then again, I might have a slightly different setup than most (or maybe not!)

How I installed it was as follows:

  1. Run the installer, and select Multiserver
  2. Do all the settings as you want, I installed it into Applications/JRun4
  3. Once it has installed, it wont be able to go the web based configuration tool as it seems the server hasnt actually started, so, open up Terminal (Utilities/Terminal)
  4. Type sudo /Applications/JRun4/bin/jrun -start cfusion
  5. Coldfusion should start, but it isnt properly configured so go to: http://localhost/cfide/administrator/index.cfm (note the index.cfm, apache isnt configured to serve index.cfm as a default file yet)
  6. Once you have gone through the process, open up /etc/apache2/httpd.config and look for the line :  DirectoryIndex index.html and change it to  DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.html
  7. Restart apache by opening another Terminal window and type: sudo apachectl restart
That should be it. That is how I configured it (I then split it out into a couple of virtual hosts with different versions of CF running, but that is another story)

I hope this helps!

EDIT: I have tried this with a fresh download and it all seemed to go well, apart from the final screen where it tells me that the webserver couldn't be restarted, but that is what happened before.

Apache Config info:

Error about restarting:

My start page:

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Apple's new keyboard

Posted At : August 10, 2007 9:02 AM | Posted By : Mark Drew
Related Categories: apple

New Apple Keyboard As today is a nice sunny day, I thought I would take a bit of a walk over to the Apple Store on Regent Street and get myself one of those fancy new Apple keyboards. The reason behind this (apart from that I could and it was a nice day for a walk) was that I was attracted to a laptop style keyboard on my main work iMac.

So, what do I think of it so far? I love it. Apart from all the funky keys you have on it (which I have so far to setup) it is more importantly very quiet!

Another nice thing about it is its responsiveness, its pretty fast and feels immediate.

It is of course difficult to describe a keyboard since you have to do it by feel, but so far I am loving this!

The only test I now have to put it to is the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory test! Maybe a bit later on tonight, and more info shall be posted!

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