Hi All
I'd thought id share some of the pain ive been having with installing CF10. We have a pretty big install environment and during our CF10 migration project we have had to install
- a dev VM on CentOS
- 3 UAT boxes on Solaris 10 (Sparc)
- 4 staging/Prod boxes on Solaris 10 (Sparc)
all up that's 8 installs of CF10 and almost 20 instances of CF across all the applications. I have to say I'm really disappointed. This is the first big update ive done on Unix, in the past ColdFusion v4-v9 I have worked on Windows servers.
Some of my main greifs have included this time around:
- You must apply the mandatory update after you install
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-mandatory-update.ht ml
- you then must update to the latest patch - update 11. Except on Solaris I have found it wont do work via CFIDE. You have to use the command line. (CFIDE is broken)
- CFIDE is horribly broken, we cannot use the 'settings' page at all. Everything must be edited via neo-*.xml files
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-administrator-fails-pe rmission-denied.html
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3536062
- wsconfig doesn't deal with multiple sites and multiple instances very well and you have to do everything manually. Including extracting the connector from WSConfig.jar
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion10-apache-manual-connec tor-configuration.html
- Solr/jetty Init Script is broken
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1009951
- the installer on Unix doesn't install it so that the service auto-starts, you have to do that yourself.
- the Init script doesnt deal with multiple instances or give you a PID so you know how to kill it if it wont stop gracefully, which is happening alot!, we ended up writing our own init.d script.
IMO the next version of CF needs more work on the installer annd CFIDE side of things. It is way too hard to install.