How I installed ColdFusion 8 on Mac OS X

The setup steps below are taken from a rough article I put together covering Cairngorm, Flex 3, and ColdFusion 8. The setup used ColdFusion 8 through Apache (XAMPP) all on Mac OS X.

Setup:

XAMPP
1. Download latest XAMPP for OS X
2. Follow instructions on XAMPP’s site: Installation, Start, Test

ColdFusion 8
1. You need Admin rights to install ColdFusion 8 on Mac OS X.
2. Download the Developer Edition of the ColdFusion 8 from Adobe.com
3. Unzip the downloaded Mac OS X version of the ColdFusion 8
4. Open a Terminal. Type “sudo open ” in the terminal. Then navigate to the “ColdFusion 8 Install.app” that you unzipped. Drag it over to the Terminal app, it will paste the path for you (should look something like “sudo open /Users/renaun/Desktop/downloads/ColdFusion\ 8\ Installer.app/”. Click enter.
5. Now we are in the ColdFusion Wizard, here are what I selected as the installation options
   1. Clicked Ok
   2. Clicked Next
   3. Clicked “I accept….” and then Next
   4. Checked the Developer Edition and then clicked Next
   5. Select the “Server Configuration” option , then click Next
   6. I had no other installs, so left it checked No, and clicked Next
   7. I did not want the documentation, startup scripts, or Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES. I unchecked all 3 and then clicked Next
   8. I left the default install directory “/Applications/ColdFusion8″, and clicked Next
   9. I did not need to update from earlier versions of ColdFusion, so I left it No and clicked Next
   10. I left “Configure web server connected for ColdFusion” selected and clicked on the Add button. Use the values below to fill out the form, then click OK
   11. Web Server: Apache
   12. Config. Dir: /Applications/xampp/etc
   13. Dir and file name of server binary: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/httpd
   14. Dir and file name of server control script: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/apachectl
   15. Click Next
   16. I put my CFIDE in the default Mac web sites folder, which I changed the “DocumentRoot” value in the /Applications/xampp/etc/httpd.conf file of xampp also. So select your default web server DocumentRoot. Either:
       /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs
       /Users/renaun/Sites/
       Click Next
   17. Enter a password for the CFIDE administration login and click Next
   18. Enabled RDS and give a password if you want. I did not, click Next
   19. Provide your Mac OS X user’s password and click Next
   20. Click Install and wait for it to install
   21. Click Ok, and it will open the CFIDE administration login wizard
   22. Log in with your password setup eariler in the wizard
6. To Start/Stop ColdFusion manual open a Terminal app and type in Either:
   sudo /Applications/ColdFuions8/bin/coldfusion start
   - or -
   sudo /Applications/ColdFusion8/bin/coldfusion stop

21 comments August 7th, 2007