Jun 04 2006
ColdFusion MX7 Built-In Web Server
I can't think of an appropriate title for this post that is both succinct and fewer than 50 words. Also, this post is mostly for the CRS developers, who may run into this considering the fact that many of us were (or are) using the built-in web server that can be used with CFMX 7 Developer edition.
The short version is this: If you were using the built-in web server that can be used with the Developer edition of ColdFusion MX 7, and later you installed IIS or another web server, delete all of your projects from the ColdFusion web root.
The longer version is this: I learned the hard way this weekend that even if you have projects in the IIS (or other web server) web root, ColdFusion first looks in the built-in web server root. This happened after installing and running the Mach-II framework version 1.1.0. It took me the entire weekend (and much of Matt Woodward's weekend) trying to figure out why the 1.1.0 framework wasn't working correctly with the tutorial applications.
I was once using the built-in web server with ColdFusion until I installed IIS in my environment. I had not even considered the fact that I had on older Mach-II framework in the old web root, much less that the old projects in the CF web server root were going to be seen first, before looking in the actual web server root.
Strangeness. OK.. Moving on.