User Guide

46 Chapter 5: Configuring Your System
Overview of configuration tasks
The following table describes when to do the configuration tasks that are documented in this
chapter:
For information about additional configuration tasks, see Configuring and Administering
ColdFusion MX.
Managing ColdFusion MX 7
The ColdFusion MX 7 installation creates a few services in Windows and a single process on
UNIX. The following sections describe how to manage the services:
• “Managing ColdFusion MX 7 services in Windows” on page 47
• “Managing the ColdFusion MX 7 process on UNIX” on page 48
Configuration task When to do it
“Managing
ColdFusion MX 7”
on page 46
You must stop and restart ColdFusion MX 7 after you enable or disable
security in the ColdFusion MX Administrator or change any of the Java
and JVM settings, in order for your changes to take effect. You can do
this at any time after you install ColdFusion MX 7.
“Configuring web servers”
on page 49
When moving to a production server or when the built-in web server no
longer meets your needs.
“Enabling CORBA
support” on page 57
You must do this only if you must make CORBA invocations from
ColdFusion MX 7. You can do this after you install ColdFusion MX 7
and before you make a CORBA call from ColdFusion MX 7.
“Disabling Remote
Development Services”
on page 59
For security reasons, disable RDS when you move an application to the
production environment.
“Disabling JSP
functionality (server
configuration only)”
on page 60
When running ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition in a hosted
environment, you might want to disable JSP processing.
“Changing the
ColdFusion MX 7 user
account in Windows”
on page 61
You must do this only if you discover that the account under which
ColdFusion MX 7 is running has inappropriate access rights; for
example, to interact with remote data sources, other application pages,
or COM objects. You can do this after you install ColdFusion MX 7 and
before you deploy your application.
“Connecting to an external
JDBC Type 4 data source”
on page 61
You must do this only if you use a Type 4 database driver that is not
included in ColdFusion MX 7. You can do this after you install
ColdFusion MX 7 and before you set up the data source in the
ColdFusion MX Administrator.