After having gone through the thoroughly boring installation steps for Cold Fusion MX 7, now it’s time to figure out how to start the server. They seem to have conviniently forgotten to put this information in a readme file or to include it in the getting started page on the Macromedia site.. A quick look at the bin/ folder reveals that that the server can be started with the coldfusion start command. (duh obvious).
The getting started page does not include a hello world example either. I rekoned that the following will do:
<CFOUTPUT>Hello World</CFOUTPUT>
That still leaves me with the task of figuring out where the file should be placed. My installation folder is opt/coldfusionmx7 so I reckoned opt/coldfusionmx7/wwwroot would be a good place. Wrong.
Type http://localhost:8500/ into the browser, A directory listing will be revealed. It clearly shows the presence of my hello.cfm file. Click on it, and the server written by a bunch of morons will tell you that:
File not found: /hello.cfm
A seasoned Cold Fusion programmer will tell me I am being silly, that I have not placed the files in the correct place, How am I to know what the correct place is when there is no information at all in the 276Mb zip file?
Combed through the site and came up with another set of zip files that supposedly contain documentation. That’s being downloaded in the background as this entry is being type. On top of everything else, the Macromedia site seems really slow. May be because it’s powered by cold fusion.
