Mike Benner: Coldfusion rescued by PHP?!?!?!?

Coldfusion rescued by PHP?!?!?!?

Mar 6 by Michael Benner

Say it isn't so...I had to install XAMPP on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.2 to get Coldfusion 8 running. Yeah, I know XAMPP has Apache and mySQL, but let's be honest, it was built to make PHP easier to install. So after finishing my RAID install (see earlier post) I took this opportunity to TRY and install CF8 (which never worked for me in since Leopard). So after reading

the following sites:

Jeff Coughlin
TrakiklyHip
Mark Drew
And finally the best solution for me, Renaun Erickson

No let me state it was not easy, it took me a night of cursing, restarting and just plain pulling my head out. The first thing I did was install XAMPP and test. That was cake. Then came CF8. I followed instructions to a T and it none of it worked. But then I noticed it on the 10th reinstall of CF8. When choosing the "Web Connectors" for CF8, it was defaulting BACK to the "private" (default Mac OS X Apache) even though I point to XAMPP. So I selected XAMPP again and finally on the 3rd time it stuck.

I finished the installation and it worked. I am not sure why it defaults back like it did, but I do remember seeing that it went back every time and I just never put 2 and 2 together. So for all of you having problems try XAMPP (just close your eyes around that PHP stuff) and follow Renaun's instructions, BUT MAKE SURE IT SAYS THE RIGHT PATH.

Now maybe I can enjoy my birthday tomorrow and get some PSP time in (Patapon, God of War and flOw are all calling to me).

P.S. Coldbox on my laptop rocks...

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Just an FYI Adobe is working on a Leopard fix and I'm in the prerelease and it worked like a charm. I to pulled my hair out getting it to work and the new updated 1 in beta works like a charm.