Overview Of Configuration Tasks - Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac User Manual

Chapter 7: 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:\ColdFusion8 in Windows, and /opt/coldfusion8 in UNIX. Jrun_root refers your installation directory in the
multiserver configuration. By default, this directory is C:\JRun4 in Windows and /opt/jrun4 in UNIX.
Contents
Overview of configuration tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Managing ColdFusion services in Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Managing the ColdFusion process in UNIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Managing the ColdFusion process in Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Configuring web servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Enabling CORBA support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Disabling Remote Development Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Disabling JSP functionality (server configuration only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Changing the ColdFusion user account in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Overview of configuration tasks

The following table describes when to do the configuration tasks that are documented in this topic:
Configuration task
"Managing ColdFusion services
in Windows" on page 76 and
"Managing the ColdFusion
process in UNIX" on page 77
"Configuring web servers" on
page 79
"Enabling CORBA support" on
page 88
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.
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