Monday, August 31, 2015

Steps To Manage Your ColdFusion Migration

Who don’t love to get themselves updated with new technologies and versions? Well, if you are one amongst those who have developed your website on ColdFusion and wishing to get yourself updated with the new ColdFusion versions, then you can go through this article to gain fine cognizance on how to manage your ColdFusion migration.

Always the newer versions of ColdFusion come up with improved security. As security is a hot topic for many organizations and firms, many companies opt for ColdFusion application migration to prevent their platforms from being hacked.

Steps to manage CF settings from an old version to new one


  • First and foremost install new version let it be as cf 10 
  • For the old version that is CF 9x, you are recommended to create a "cf9settings" directory under {Coldfusion10-Home}/{instance_name}/lib or {Cfusion10-ear-home}/cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib directory
  • Now ensure to copay all the file formats of neo-*.xml from {Coldfusion-Home}/lib or {cfusion-ear-home}/cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib of the earlier install to coldfusion9settings
  • Make sure to open the file of adminconfig.xml at {Coldfusion10-Home}/{instance_name}/lib or {Cfusion10-ear-home}/cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib
  • Make all the requisite changes required in the properties tab like Setting the "runmigrationwizard" value to "True” and “migratecf8" or "migratecf9" to "True” and others 
  • Now save the file and then close 
  • You are now ready to start the CF 10 instance 
  • In order to complete the migration process, an individual is requested to open CF 10 administrator and to make the necessary changes

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