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Last updated 1/20/2012
Chapter 6: 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:\ColdFusion9 in Windows, /opt/coldfusion9 in UNIX, and /Applications/ColdFusion9 in OSX. Jrun_root refers your
installation directory in the multiserver configuration. By default, this directory is C:\JRun4 in Windows, /opt/jrun4 in
UNIX, and /Application/Jrun4.
Overview of configuration tasks
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:
Configuration task When to do it
Managing ColdFusion services in
Windows and Managing the ColdFusion
process in UNIX
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.
Configuring web servers When moving to a production server or when the built-in web server no longer meets your needs.
Enabling CORBA support 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.
Disabling Remote Development
Services
For security reasons, disable RDS when you move an application to the production environment.
Disabling JSP functionality (server
configuration only)
When running ColdFusion Enterprise Edition in a hosted environment, you might want to disable
JSP processing.
Changing the ColdFusion user account
in Windows
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
cfprint tag. You can do this after you
install ColdFusion and before you deploy your application.
Service Purpose Configuration
ColdFusion 9 Application Server The main ColdFusion service. ColdFusion pages cannot be
processed if this service is not running.
Server
Macromedia JRun Admin Server Runs the admin JRun server, used by the JRun Management
Console (JMC).
Multiserver
Macromedia JRun CFusion Server Runs the JRun cfusion server. Contains ColdFusion 9 deployed as
an enterprise application.
Multiserver
ColdFusion 9 ODBC Agent The service used to configure data sources for the ColdFusion 9
ODBC Server.
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