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When you first access the Administrator, ColdFusion runs the Configuration and Settings
Migration Wizard. Provide the wizard with the following information:
Note: When you upgrade a ColdFusion MX installation, the wizard might skip some of the following
steps.
• Enter the Administrator password you specified when you installed ColdFusion MX files.
• Specify whether to configure RDS support, and if you configure RDS support, the RDS
password. To maximize security, do not install RDS on production servers. For more
information on RDS, see “Using RDS” on page 50.
• (Windows only) Specify whether to install the ODBC socket JDBC driver, which lets
ColdFusion MX access ODBC data sources.
• Specify whether to install example applications and supporting files (including data sources)
for the ColdFusion MX Getting Started tutorial. For security reasons, Macromedia
recommends that you do not install example applications on production servers.
• The System Configuration page might tell you that you must do additional configuration steps
to enable full ColdFusion MX functionality. You do not need to make these changes when you
run the wizard; click Next. See “Enabling and configuring specific ColdFusion MX
functionality” on page 23 for information on the additional configuration steps you must take
to enable all available ColdFusion MX features.
When the wizard displays the Finish page, click OK to open the ColdFusion MX Administrator.
When the Administrator opens, you can configure ColdFusion features. Running the
Administrator confirms that the installation procedure was successful. However, you must
perform the tasks described in the “Enabling and configuring specific ColdFusion MX
functionality” section before complete ColdFusion MX functionality is available.
Enabling and configuring specific ColdFusion MX functionality
For some ColdFusion MX functionality to work properly, you must manually configure your
application server.
This section provides instructions for procedures that are specific to WebSphere 5. It describes
what to do for the following functionality:
• Enabling features with operating system-specific binaries
• Enabling access to COM objects (Windows only)
• Enabling charting and graphing (UNIX)
• Disabling RDS
The following procedures are identical for WebSphere 4 and WebSphere 5, and are documented
in Chapter 4, “Enabling and Using ColdFusion MX Features,” on page 43:
• Installing Verity Search Packs for ColdFusion MX
• Enabling CORBA support
• Using a third-party JDBC database driver