Installing ColdFusion MX 7 on Mac OS X
I've played with installing ColdFusion on OS X a few times with mixed results - never to my liking. I finally found some excellent articles that got me going exactly as I would like. Both of these are at Community MX.
- Running ColdFusion on TomCat: This article, which is sold for $3.00 walks you through the process of installing ColdFusion MX 7 on top of Tomcat?an open source J2EE server.
- Running ColdFusion on JRun 4: This article, which is free (at the time of this post) details the steps to install the Macromedia JRun4 server and then ColdFusion MX 7. The article includes the ENTIRE process from how to download the software, to making sure that it is using the correct java on macintosh, to finally setting it up to run automatically when you boot your macintosh.
These really are fantastic articles. If you would like to run CF7 on your mac, you should start here.