Deploy Adobe Coldfusion 8 on Tomcat 6 in a virtual host environment

This article describes how to deploy the Adobe Coldfusion 8 server on Tomcat in a virtual hosts environment. Please read my Apache Tomcat 6 Article for the base setup.

If you install the coldfusion server in seperate virtual hosts, each will have an own coldfusion administrator with own settings.

1. Download

First download the coldfusion-801-lin.bin (or coldfusion-801-lin64.bin for 64-Bit) installer from the Adobe Website.

wget http://trials.adobe.com/Applications/ColdFusion/801WWE/coldfusion-801-lin64.bin
chmod +x coldfusion-801-lin64.bin

2. Prepare system

2.1 Install libraries

Coldfusion need some extra libraries for the installation:

aptitude install libstdc++6 libstdc++5
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2.2 Modify the virtual host in tomcat

vim /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml

<!-- www.testsrv.local -->
<host name="www.testsrv.local" appBase="/var/www/vhost1/htdocs" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
    <context path="" docBase="cfusion" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
    <valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="/var/www/vhost1/logs"  prefix="tomcat_access_" suffix=".log" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>
</host>

2.3 Modify the virtual host in apache

vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vhost1

<virtualhost www.testsrv.local:80>
    JkMount /*.cfm default
    JkMount /*.cfc default
    JkMount /*.cfchart default
    DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.html index.htm
    ServerName www.testsrv.local
    ServerAdmin servermaster@testsrv.local
    DocumentRoot /var/www/vhost1/htdocs/cfusion
    ErrorLog /var/www/vhost1/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/vhost1/logs/access.log common
    <directory /var/www/vhost1/htdocs/cfusion>
        Options -Indexes
    </directory>
    <directory /var/www/vhost1/htdocs/cfusion/WEB-INF>
        Options -Indexes
        AllowOverride None
        deny from all
    </directory>
    <directory /var/www/vhost1/htdocs/cfusion/META-INF>
       Options -Indexes
       AllowOverride None
       deny from all
    </directory>
</virtualhost>

Note: You should restrict the access to the CFIDE folder, too. With an .htaccess file for example.

3. Create WAR file

./coldfusion-801-lin64.bin

Select J2EE configuration (WAR file)
This will create a cfusion.war package in /opt/coldfusion8/.„J2EE configuration (WAR file)“ auswählen

4. Deploy the WAR file to a virtual host

cp /opt/coldfusion8/cfusion.war /var/www/vhost1/htdocs/

Note: Tomcat will unpack this WAR file and create the cfusion diretory. After that, you can delete the WAR file.

5. Apply configuration

/etc/init.d/tomcat restart
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

6. Complete Coldfusion installation

Now you can access the CF Administrator with your browser:
http://www.testsrv.local/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm