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Enabling Adobe ColdFusion Support

To install Adobe ColdFusion:

  1. Once you have purchased a ColdFusion distribution package, copy it to your Plesk server.
  2. Login as 'root' to the server and run the coldfusion-70-lin.bin installation file.
  3. Choose your language and press ENTER.
  4. Read the Introduction and press ENTER.
  5. Read carefully the end user license agreement and accept it. A pre-installation check will be performed.
  6. Choose installation type: select the option Install new version of ColdFusion MX with a serial number and type in the serial number. Press ENTER.
  7. Select the type of installation: leave the Server configuration option selected and press 1.
  8. Press 2 or ENTER to confirm that you do not yet have Adobe ColdFusion installed.
  9. Choose the installation options and press 4 to continue with installation.
  10. Specify an absolute path to the installation folder. The default installation folder is /opt/coldfusionmx7. Press ENTER.
  11. If you had earlier versions of ColdFusion installed, you can choose to migrate your settings. Otherwise press ENTER to continue.
  12. Configuration of Web Servers. Press 2 to continue with installation.
  13. Leave the Runtime user name field blank. Press ENTER.
  14. Specify the password that you will use to control access to the ColdFusion MX Administrator.
  15. Disable the ColdFusion Remote Development Service (RDS): type 'n'.
  16. Press ENTER to confirm installation.
  17. Once the installation is completed, press ENTER to exit the installer.
  18. If your server is running Linux for 64-bit platforms, modify the files /etc/init.d/coldfusionmx7 and [path_to_coldfusion_installation]/bin/coldfusion — comment out the following lines:

    SUSEFLAG=`grep 'SuSE Linux 8.1\|UnitedLinux 1.0' /etc/SuSE-release

    /etc/UnitedLinux-release /etc/UnitedLinux-release 2> /dev/null`

    if [ ! "$SUSEFLAG" ]; then

    LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.9

    export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

    fi

  19. Login to Plesk control panel as administrator.
  20. Click the Server shortcut in the left side navigation pane.
  21. Click the Updater icon in the right frame.
  22. Click a link corresponding to the appropriate release version.
  23. Select the check box corresponding to the ColdFusion support for Plesk item, and click Install. Confirm the installation when prompted.
  24. Once the selected components are installed, click the ColdFusion Settings icon on the Server Administration screen (Plesk control panel > Server).
  25. Specify the path to ColdFusion installation directory and click OK.

To uninstall Adobe ColdFusion from your server:

  1. Log in as root.
  2. Enter the following command to go to the cf_root/uninstall directory:

    cd cf_root/uninstall

  3. Enter the following command:

    ./uninstall.sh

  4. When the program completes, remove any remaining files and directories in the cf_root directory.
  5. Log in to Plesk control panel as administrator, click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane, and then click the Component Info icon Components icon.
  6. Click the Refresh icon.

    The list of installed components will be updated. Your control panel will find out that you deinstalled ColdFusion and will remove the ColdFusion related controls from the control panel screens or will make them unselectable and mark them with the (component is not installed) comment.