Solaris Installation  
 
 

ColdFusion is distributed as a Solaris package file. You can use a number of Solaris package utilities, such as pkgadd, pkgrm, and pkginfo to manage the ColdFusion package file, as well as any other package files on your system.

Before installing ColdFusion please note the following considerations:

  • You must be logged in as root to run the pkgadd utility.
  • There are three versions of the netscape NSAPI plugin. The installation script will ask you which version of Netscape you are running if you choose to automatically configure a Netscape server.
  • By default the package file installs ColdFusion into the /opt directory. If you want to install ColdFusion into a different directory, you must create that directory before running the pkgadd utility.
  • Note the location and version number of your installed web server. The pkgadd utility prompts you for this information.
 
 
  To install ColdFusion on Solaris:  
 
  1. Load the ColdFusion CD-ROM into your CD drive. If the Solaris Volume Manager is active, you won't need to mount the CD.
  2. If necessary, mount the CD-ROM on /cdrom/cdrom0.
  3. Use the following shell command to start the installation process:
    pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0
    

Solaris returns the names of the package files on the specified volume. Select the ColdFusion package file.

During the installation, ColdFusion services are started and a shell script is invoked to restart your Web server. If you are using Netscape, the installation will try and run the stop and start scripts to restart your web server.

ColdFusion can also be started using the ColdFusion start-up script, which is found in the /etc/inet.d directory.

 
 
  Netscape and Solaris 2.6  
 
 

Netscape does not certify Enterprise Server 3.0 or FastTrack Server 3.01 to work on Solaris 2.6. These servers are certified by Netscape to work on Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1.

 
 
  Note  
 

ColdFusion requires Solaris 2.5.1 or higher.

Netscape Enterprise 3.5.1 has been certified for Solaris 2.6. Several NSAPI functions, which didn't work with ColdFusion in earlier releases of Netscape Enterprise server, have been fixed in Enterprise 3.5.1.

Allaire has successfully tested Enterprise/FastTrack 2.01 and Enterprise 3.5.1 on Solaris 2.6 with ColdFusion.

 
 
  Upgrading from ColdFusion 3.1.x: Solaris  
 
 

When upgrading from ColdFusion 3.1 you may need to edit the package installation defaults file:

/var/sadm/install/admin/default

This file controls the behavior of the Solaris packaging commands. The value of the instance setting may need to be changed from quit or unique to overwrite.

Setting the value of the instance to overwrite allows the existing version of ColdFusion to be overwritten by the new version. See the admin(4) manual page for further information.

 
 
  Uninstalling ColdFusion: Solaris  
 
 

Note that the uninstall script removes your odbc.ini file. You may want to preserve your odbc.ini file by saving it to a new location. In addition, uninstalling ColdFusion removes all Verity collections, stored by default in <installdir>/coldfusion/verity, from your system.

Use the pkgrm utility to remove ColdFusion from your system as follows:

pkgrm cfusion


 
 
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