VMWare Convertor coolness...

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:49:00 --0100

Dell have finally deigned to deliver my replacement laptop (Original went in for repair in early December!). As mentioned previously, I'm in the habit of backing up my machine to an external disk on a regular basis (o.k. maybe not that regular - but at least before it gets taken away for repair!!!) using Acronis True Image. This offers a handy utility whereby you can mount a disk image as a drive - so I can have full access to the contents of the old hard disk when I need it, from the new machine. Now I don't know about you, but I find it takes me weeks to get a new development machine up just how I like - and there always seems to be stuff I have forgotten off my old machine... [More]

ColdFusion 7.02 + Apache 2.2 installed on Ubuntu 7.04 on VMware Player

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:26:00 --0100

Its definately harder than windows - but I have managed to get ColdFusion 7.02 Server running on Apache, on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). My previous experience with Linux is very limited to say the least - and most of the issues I ran into were due to misunderstandings on my part about how linux works... Main issues i ran into:

Ubuntu does not have a root account (not strictly true - but when I though it was asking me for a root password - it was actually asking for my password...)
Could not execute ColdFusion installer after I had downloaded it (not marked as executeable - chmod +x)
I really don't understand linux permissions - I want to be able to create and edit docs in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ without having to sudo (I'm sure this one will seem more logical when its not 3am!
Had an issue with the connector for apache - the one that is distributed with CF is not compatible with Apache 2.2 (there is a hotfix downloadable from adobe for this, which worked)

All in all, I don't think 4 hours was too bad, baring in mind my inexperience with linux etc. I have to say, I'm very impressed with VMware player - about 100 billion times faster than MS Virtual PC! A big thankyou goes to Dave Shuck for his excellent post on Installing CFMX7 & Apache2.2.2 on Ubuntu - Without this I think I would have been totally lost... I'll post more when its not 3am - and I've had more chance to get everything setup how I want. (Basically I'm trying to create an environment that I can dev in (and potentially move to other machines) when I'm not using my primary development machine - I have a lightweight laptop that I normally use when I'm not in the office - but I often want to quickly play with something in CF. I didn't want to break my existing windows installation on this machine by installing a load of server / development software - so I thought I'd build a virtual machine - using ubuntu rather than windows to avoid licensing (and hopefully performance) issues!)

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VMWare Convertor coolness...

ColdFusion 7.02 + Apache 2.2 installed on Ubuntu 7.04 on VMware Player