Can I use CF 6.1 and CF 7 on the same machine?

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Nathan Drury - 29 May 2006 04:18 GMT

Hi

We have one machine that is used for our intranet and our internal web apps.
Our intranet runs on a CMS that requires CF 6.1 but is not compatible with CF
7, so the machine only has 6.1 installed :| We have a license for CF 7 that
can be used on this machine and I want to start building a Flex 2 app so I need
CF 7. Is it possible to run both CF 6.1 and CF 7 on the same machine? I'm
open to all suggestions, including server virtualisation / virtualization.

Thanks

Nathan

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ksmith - 30 May 2006 16:33 GMT

Yes, the CFMX7 installation documents indicate that CFMX7 can co-exist with
cfmx6.x and previous versions. You can install it to run using its own
internal webserver running on port 8500 or 8501, typically. You can also
create a virual webserver and configure cfmx7 to use it while cfmx6 runs on
your other site(s).

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Nathan Drury - 31 May 2006 02:37 GMT

Thanks for your reply Ken.

We use IIS as our standard web server, so to maintain consistency we'd prefer
to use it instead of the built in CF web server. I don't know a great deal
about virtual servers in IIS, so can you tell me what would I need to do to set
up IIS and/or CF so that a particular site (eg. <a target=_blank
class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://abc)">http://abc)</a> would know
to use CF 7 rather than CF 6? I don't want the users to have to add the port
number to the URL, so if I create an IIS virtual server following these
guidelines (<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816576)">http://su
pport.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816576)</a> with a port
different to port 80, will the port have to be added to the URL (eg. <a
target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://abc:8080)?

In">http://abc:8080)?

In</a> a nutshell, what I'm after is one site such as <a target=_blank
class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://abc1">http://abc1</a> to use CF 6
and another such as <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://abc2">http://abc2</a> to use CF 7.

Cheers

Nathan

PS - sorry about the multiple posts. I wasn't sure where was the best place
to put it.

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