Installation guide

As for other flavors of Linux, while we have not tested and do not support them
officially, we have had customers run on Slackware, Debian, Gentoo and others. The key
requirement is to be running the 2.4 kernel on an x86 32-bit platform.
If you need to deploy BlueDragon on combinations of OS platform and/or web servers
not listed here, consider using BlueDragon/J2EE. It allows you to deploy CFML
applications on any standard J2EE web server (or Servlets 2.2 servlet engine); therefore if
a given J2EE server or servlet engine supports your desired platform/web server
configuration not listed here, BlueDragon/J2EE will allow you to run your CFML
applications on that configuration.
For information about BlueDragon/J2EE, see the document, Deploying CFML on J2EE
Application Servers.
3.1.1 JDK Requirements
BlueDragon Server and Server JX for Windows and Linux are bundled with JDK 1.4.2,
and for those editions that is the only JDK version we will support. When installed on
Mac OS X, these editions require JDK 1.4.x as well.
If you require support for an earlier JDK, consider the BlueDragon/J2EE edition. This
will run on JDK 1.3 (or whatever JDK your J2EE server will support). Be aware,
however, that our support for encrypted templates (see the BlueDragon 6.2.1 User Guide)
requires the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE):
http://java.sun.com/products/jce/index.jsp
You can use precompiled templates without the JCE; you just can't encrypt them unless
the JCE is installed (the JCE is included with JDK 1.4).
3.2 Running Alongside ColdFusion and Servlet/JSP
Engines
You can install BlueDragon Server and Server JX on a machine already having
ColdFusion 5, ColdFusion MX, or other Servlet/JSP engines installed. The only concern
is web server integration and/or port selection for the built-in web server (as discussed in
the following sections). (If you have installed ColdFusion MX, you may also have an
issue with the WildCard Mapping feature in IIS. See section 3.7.2.2 for more
information.)
If you have another ColdFusion or Servlet/JSP engine installed and configured to
integrate with an external web server, be aware that installing BlueDragon and choosing
to integrate it with that web server will take over relevant extension mappings: .cfm,
.cfml, and .cfc extensions (and .jsp extensions in Server JX).
Additionally, if you’re using a web server that permits multiple virtual hosts (including
iPlanet and Apache, as well as IIS running under a Server edition of Windows), you can
configure different hosts to respond to requests for CFML files, and the BlueDragon
feature for adding a web server adapter on these servers can detect and offer to configure
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