User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Administering ColdFusion MX 7
- Administering ColdFusion MX
- Using the ColdFusion MX Administrator
- Contents
- Initial administration tasks
- Accessing user assistance
- Server Settings section
- Data & Services section
- Debugging & Logging section
- Extensions section
- Event Gateways section
- Security section
- Packaging and Deployment section
- Enterprise Manager section
- Custom Extensions section
- Administrator API
- Data Source Management
- Contents
- About JDBC
- Adding data sources
- Connecting to DB2 Universal Database
- Connecting to Informix
- Connecting to Microsoft Access
- Connecting to Microsoft Access with Unicode
- Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server
- Connecting to MySQL
- Connecting to ODBC Socket
- Connecting to Oracle
- Connecting to other data sources
- Connecting to Sybase
- Connecting to JNDI data sources
- Web Server Management
- Deploying ColdFusion Applications
- Administering Security
- Using Multiple Server Instances
- Administering Verity
- Introducing Verity and Verity Tools
- Indexing Collections with Verity Spider
- Using Verity Utilities
- Contents
- Overview of Verity utilities
- Using the mkvdk utility
- Using the rck2 utility
- Using the rcvdk utility
- Using the didump utility
- Using the browse utility
- Using the merge utility
- Index
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CHAPTER 7
Using Multiple Server Instances
When you install Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition using the multiserver
configuration, you can use the ColdFusion MX Administrator to create multiple server instances.
Deploying ColdFusion MX on multiple server instances lets you isolate individual applications
and leverage clustering functionality.
Management of multiple server instances has changed significantly in ColdFusion MX 7:
ColdFusion MX Use a J2EE deployment, along with J2EE application server features to deploy
the ColdFusion MX application on multiple instances of the J2EE application server.
ColdFusion MX 7 Use the ColdFusion MX Administrator in the multiserver configuration to
create Macromedia JRun server instances and to automatically deploy the ColdFusion MX
application on those instances. Additionally, you can combine the Administrator-driven server
instance creation with the ColdFusion MX Administrator J2EE Archive feature to deploy a
ColdFusion MX application that contains all of your application’s CFM files (including CFCs
and CFRs), settings (including data source definitions), and the ColdFusion web application. For
more information on J2EE Archive, see “Packaging applications in J2EE archive files”
on page 80.
Note: Although the concepts and procedures explained in the ColdFusion MX documentation still
apply, ColdFusion MX 7 incorporates multiple instance and cluster creation into the ColdFusion MX
Administrator.
Contents
About multiple server instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Defining additional server instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Enabling application isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Enabling clustering for load balancing and failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Defining remote server instances to the ColdFusion MX Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101