ColdFusion 8 and Apache on WindowsXP
July 22, 2008A quick and painless guide to setting up ColdFusion 8, Apache and MySQL on aWindows XP workstation.
Download XAMPP
Install XAMPP
Destination Folder: c:\xampp\You can choose to install Apache as a service if you want (I didn't, but you can add itlater).Once installation completes fire up XAMPP Control Panel and stop Apache if it isrunning
Download ColdFusion 8.0.1
Install Coldfusion 8.0.1
Tick the "developer edition" optionChoose the "Server configuration" optionSelect the subcomponents you want to install. You don't need any of them to runColdFusion code, so unless you want them I'd untick them.Destination Folder: c:\Coldfusion8\When you get to the "Configure web server connector for ColdFusion" screen, click the"add" button.Select "Apache" from the dropdown listEnter "C:\xampp\apache\conf" as your Configuration DirectoryEnter "C:\xampp\apache\bin\apache.exe" as your server binary pathClick "OK"Click "Next"Change the directory for the Administrator Location to: "C:\xampp\htdocs"The rest is pretty straight forward. You can turn RDS on if you want to use CFEclipse or Dreamweaver to connect to your database for code generatation, otherwise you can leaveit off.
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