Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Server Administration / April 2009

ColdFusion Archives is a CF Enterprise feature.

The good news is that you can temporarily get Enterprise features by
removing the license reverting the installation to a Developer version
which is equal to Enterprise.  You can then create an archive.

Then install CF8 but do not put a license in at first.  Import the
archive, then add the license afterwards.

Joe, are you asking for clarification of Ian's suggestion, about removing the
license key?

You do that in the System Information page of the CF Admin (no link on the
left, instead, a link in the top right).

By removing the key entirely,you revert to the Developer edition, which is the
same functionality as Enterprise, but limited to localhost plus the first
couple of IP addresses to hit the server (requests from other IPs beyond that
are then are rejected until CF is restarted).

The only way to switch from Standard to Full Enterprise is to enter an
Enterprise license key. His point, though, was that for the sake of what you're
doing, you could avoid that by just using the developer edition to create and
then restore the archive.

Well, sure. But to be clear, that's just doing manually what would be done by
editing the fields in the Admin Server Settings page.

If you've not done it, could you mark Ian's reply to you as the answer for
this thread? If you want to mark my first reply as another answer, to your
second question, feel free (I can't recall if you can mark more than one
message as the answer.)

Glad to see you got your issues resolved.

Oh, I see that you marked your own answer (before I made my comment above).
Well, I guess you could argue it's "the" answer, but really, Ian's was the
answer to your question (why you couldn't, and how to resolve it.) The editing
of the license.properties file was secondary even to the clarification that you
change the version using the server settings page. But it's your thread and
your right to pick the answer. :-) Just clarifying that some really do pay
attention to the marked answer, so it seems worth being clear. No reply
expected.

That is curious, Ian. FWIW, I don't use NNTP but instead do just use the web
interface.

I don't use NNTP (just never got into it over the years) and instead receive
this forum's messages by email. I know that's repugnant to NNTP users, but the
forum's not THAT busy. :-) So when I do reply to a thread, I do use the web
interface.

It would be sad if somehow you're not seeing Joe's other replies. He did do
them via the web, as far as I can tell (it doesn't label him as a newsgroup
user.) If it may explain any confusion, my previous 2 replies came in after his
last (third) note. Ian, are you saying you never got any of Joe's notes after
his first?

It would be a real shame to see you (and others) leave. Can I just offer my
observation that at least this forum, the "ColdFusion Server Administration"
one, is low volume enough that I have no problem following it via email. I
realize that for some it's NNTP or nothing. Just offering that one thought
before we see you go.

No, Jochem, I'm only doing things through the traditional web interface.
Perhaps some of the reason some things show up to people is based on whether
one posts in one or the other interface. That, and the other things you
mention, are really a shame to hear. Hope they're sorted out.