Reading the tea leaves, it looks like I may have need to code with both ColdFusion 8 and the newly-released ColdFusion 9. My sites run on CF8, but it looks like ED may be upgrading to CF9 - especially after I relayed my issues in this entry to them.
So I want to have both servers installed obviously for when I need each. ColdFusion allows this through it's multi-server configuration using JRun4. I currently had CF8 installed as standalone, which was going to have to be undone in order to get this multisever configuration going. So I go ahead and uninstall CF8, and I decided that I first wanted CF8 set back up, since that is the version my sites currently use. I thought I had a copy of the CF8 installer saved, but upon trying to install it, it bombed stating that it was the 64-bit OS X version, and I can only use the 32-bit version since while OS X can run some 64-bit applications "natively", the OS itself is only 32-bit still.
I head over to Adobe's site to get another copy of CF8 32-bit for OS X, a free download that is easy to get, or at least used to be. None of the CF8 application server download links are there anymore. Everything is CF9. I checked the places where they store older versions, but nothing could be found. I even tried a back door that works for CFMX7 still, and modified it for CF8 in every way I can think of, still nothing. What the hell?
So I do a bit of Googling, and come across this Adobe Forums thread. Seems they are doing everything possible to steer people away from CF8 and to CF9. Oh you could get CF8, but you have to fork over cash up front for it now it seems. Nevermind that it is the exact same installer file they will give you that, with a simple tick of a check box, becomes the free Developer Edition that we can no longer download.
Are you kidding me? What kind of backwards customer service is that? Not everyone is ready to jump to the latest x.0 release of software (which I am sure has no bugs in it still, right?) Adobe.
UPDATE: Thanks to a very kind poster on the Adobe Forums who happened to have a copy, I now have CF8 back and running. Woo hoo! Also, I have been informed by some people more in the know than I am that Adobe is aware of this issue, and expect they will correct it.
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