Well, with a somewhat embarrased look on my face, I have to provide a follow up to my blog on getting Cold Fusion MX7 running on Linux vs Windows. Sadly, upon booting up the Windows box today this was proven to not be the case.

For some reason, Coldfusion MX 7 has totally embuggerated (is that trademarked word…?) my Apache installation – which completely refuses to run, rendering the Coldfusion installation somewhat pointless (as it wont run without apache). This is starting to degenerate into a farce.

A websearch provided a guide to installing Coldfusion (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/install-coldfusion-mx-windows), granted for version 6.1, which was very detailed and should have been helpfull. Sadly it wasn’t. The instructions here were followed step by step but Apache still gave up the ghost. I have tried default installs of Apache, along with bundled installs (XAMPP etc), and each time it dies on the reboot.

Maybe I was too harsh in my critique of Linux. Maybe it is actually Macromedia’s fault. Needless to say, my interests in developing CF applications is rapidly diminishing…