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Chapter 5: Configuring Your System
You can manage ColdFusion services and processes, configure web servers manually, and change user accounts and
configure databases for ColdFusion.
Note: The term cf_root refers to your installation directory in the server configuration. By default, this directory is
C:\ColdFusion10 in Windows, /opt/coldfusion10 in UNIX, and /Applications/ColdFusion10 in OSX.
Overview of configuration tasks
Configuration task
Managing ColdFusion services in
Windows
and
Managing the ColdFusion
process in UNIX
Configuring web servers
Enabling CORBA support
Disabling Remote Development
Services
Disabling JSP functionality (server
configuration only)
Changing the ColdFusion user account
in Windows
For information about additional configuration tasks, see the Configuring and Administering ColdFusion guide.
Managing ColdFusion services in Windows
The ColdFusion installation creates the following services in the configuration indicated:
Service
ColdFusion 10 Application Server
ColdFusion 10 ODBC Agent
ColdFusion 10 ODBC Server
ColdFusion 10 Jetty Service
ColdFusion 10 .NET Service
When to do it
For your changes to take effect when you stop and restart ColdFusion, for example after you enable
or disable security in the ColdFusion Administrator or change any of the Java and JVM settings. You
can do this at any time after you install ColdFusion.
When moving to a production server or when the built-in web server no longer meets your needs.
If you must make CORBA invocations from ColdFusion. You can do this after you install ColdFusion
and before you make a CORBA call from ColdFusion.
For security reasons, disable RDS when you move an application to the production environment.
When running ColdFusion Enterprise Edition in a hosted environment, you might want to disable
JSP processing.
Iif you discover that the account under which ColdFusion is running has inappropriate access rights;
for example, to interact with remote data sources, other application pages, or COM objects. You
must also do this to be able to print to a printer using the
install ColdFusion and before you deploy your application.
Purpose
The main ColdFusion service. ColdFusion pages cannot be
processed if this service is not running.
The service used to configure data sources for the ColdFusion 10
ODBC Server.
The middle-tier service for ODBC connections that use the
DataDirect drivers for Microsoft Access and ODBC Socket.
Provides support for the ColdFusion 10 search tags.. You cannot
use the ColdFusion 10 search tags if this process is not running.
Lets you access local .NET assemblies on a Windows system that
runs ColdFusion.
Last updated 7/9/2012
cfprint
tag. You can do this after you
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