User guide

INSTALLING COLDFUSION 9

Installing Integrated Technologies

Last updated 1/20/2012

Install the Solr search server separately

1 Download your platform-specific installer from the Adobe website or copy it from the ColdFusion 9 DVD, as

follows:

2 Close any applications that are currently running on your computer.

3 Run the platform-specific installer using the appropriate command.

Note: Only console installations are available for UNIX systems.

Using Solr Search Server

Use the following steps to start and stop Solr.

Non-Windows platforms

• Start Solr using the following command:

sudo ./cfsolr start

• Stop Solr using the following command:

sudo ./cfsolr stop

Windows platform

• Start or stop the Solr service ColdFusion 9 Solr Service using Microsoft Management Console.

Enabling Flash Remoting

To interact with ColdFusion pages and components from an Adobe Flash SWF file, you can use the Flash Remoting

service in ColdFusion 9. To develop applications that use Flash Remoting, install the Flash Remoting components in

the Flash authoring environment. The Flash authoring environment or Adobe Flex is required to build applications

that connect to and interact with the Flash Remoting service in ColdFusion 9.

By default, Adobe Flash Remoting cannot access web services through ColdFusion 9.

Enable Flash Remoting to access web services through ColdFusion 9

1 Open the cf_root/WEB-INF/gateway-config.xml file in a text editor.

2 Locate the following line.

Platform Installer

Windows ColdFusion_9_Solr_win.exe

Linux

• ColdFusion_9_Solr_linux.bin

• ColdFusion_9_Solr_linux64.bin

Solaris ColdFusion_9_Solr_solaris.bin

OSX ColdFusion_9_Solr_osx10.zip

AIX ColdFusion_9_Solr_aix.bin