Wednesday, November 2, 2016

ColdFusion Migration Wizard - Why and How-To

Have you upgraded your ColdFusion installation to any of the latest version? But missed migration wizard in ColdFusion and are not able to migrate the settings? Well, you are the right place to gain fine cognizance on the options required to run migration wizard again.

ColdFusion allows an individual to migrate their settings after the successful completion of installation process. Here, the prospective individual can come across an umpteen number of settings such as schedules tasks, data services, web services and more within the CF admin itself. And migration is one such option that helps in preserving the settings of previous installations. As a result of which lot of time and manual work can be saved.

Well, if you are trying to install the new CF server on the existing server, then you are recommended to migrate the required settings after the completion of installation process itself. Else need to create CAR file, in case you choose for CF server installation on different server. This advanced feature is available only in the latest “Enterprise/Developer” versions of Adobe ColdFusion such as CF 10 and CF 11.

So if you have a standard installation of ColdFusion, you are suggested to change the adminconfig.xml within the CF. And the location for adminconfig.xml of CF 9, 10 & 11 respectively are \ColdFusion9\\cfusion\lib\, \ColdFusion10\cfusion\lib\ and \ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\.

Steps to migrate from CF 9 to CF 11

  • First and foremost, move to adminconfig.xml and try to open it with notepad
  • Now try to change the value from false to true @

              <runsetupwizard>false</runsetupwizard>
              <runmigrationwizard>false</runmigrationwizard> and
              <migratecf9>false</migratecf9>

  • Save the modified document and ensure to restart the CF service 
  • Now you can find the migration wizard, follow the instructors as suggested to continue further 


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