Easiest Way to Deploy ColdFusion to the Cloud
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Join For Freethe adobe coldfusion application server allows developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust internet applications for the enterprise. it is quite popular, and it's associated scripting language--coldfusion markup language (cfml)--has a vibrant and growing community behind it.
let's deploy coldfusion (9.01) to the jelastic cloud so you can see how easy it is!
1. create an environment
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- go to jelastic.com and sign up if you haven't done so yet, or log in with your jelastic credentials by clicking the sign in link on the page.
- while in jelastic dashboard, click the create environment button at the top left:
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it will take just a second for your environment to be created.
2. creating a war file
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- go to adobe.com and sign up.
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select the
downloads
tab, pick
coldfusion 9
from the list and click
go.
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pick a suitable version for your os and download it. also download
coldfusion 9.0.1 update
.
- run the coldfusion 9 installer that you have just downloaded.
- look through the introduction and accept the terms of license agreement .
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in the
installer configuration
window, select either the
30-day trial
or
developer edition
(if you don't have a serial number). then pick
j2ee configuration
with
war file
.
- select the components to install and the directory where you want to place coldfusion.
- enter the password for coldfusion administrator , then enable rds if you wish.
- review the pre-installation summary and click install .
- once the installation process is finished, run the coldfusion 9.0.1 updater .
- read the introduction and accept the license agreement .
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in the
configure installation
dialog select the configuration that you want to update:
2jee configuration.
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select the
coldfusion war file
that has to be updated
- look through the pre-installation summary and click install .
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select the
downloads
tab, pick
coldfusion 9
from the list and click
go.
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3. deploying a java package
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- once the update of the coldfusion war is finished, upload this file to any online file storage system that you want. at the moment, while we are still in beta, the file is too big for jelastic's deployment manager .
- then upload war file to jelastic via url.
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once the package is in
jelastic
, deploy it to the environment you created earlier.
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once the package is in
jelastic
, deploy it to the environment you created earlier.
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now you can go and run the coldfusion administrator.
the url looks like http://{your env name}.jelastic.servint.net/cfide/administrator/ or http://{your env name}.jelastic.com/cfide/administrator/enjoy!
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