When Snow Leopard came out, I was quick to upgrade. Something I normally never do, but I trusted that Apple wouldn't be as bad as... oh say Microsoft at operating system upgrades. Well, turns out I was wrong in a few instances. The two most notorious were that my HP Laserjet printer would no longer print (fixed), and that it nuked my ColdFusion 8 server. This was a real pisser because while I am still stuck with CF7 at work, I use CF8 for all my personal projects.
Thinking that I should just do an uninstall and reinstall to get things back up, I did the uninstall part. Then I found out that the 64-bit version of CF8 would not install. Now I was really pissed. I started scanning the blog sites (something that in hindsight I should have done sooner) and found people that had the same problems, but were able to fix them manually by fixing Apache and the configuration files. I opened up my Time Machine, only to find that I could not access those protected directories to get at my Apache config files (does Time Machine even make a backup of those?). So now I was really stuck.
After trying to get this install to work and having no luck, I went to Plan B. I created a new instance of Ubuntu through VMware and set up CF8 there. It worked well enough, but it puts a serious drain on my computer's memory having more than one virtual machine running (I need Windows up for SQL Server) so I really was not liking that.
Yesterday I ran into this blog post from Johnathan Lane that gave me the tools I needed to get things working again. In brief, CF8 32-bit does install whereas 64-bit still does not. Then you go manually edit the webserver connector config files, grab a recompiled connector, fix some Apache and permissions settings, and you're good to go.
One thing I would add to that is that I had to move my CFIDE folder from the default web server location to my Sites folder, where my localhost web root is. I suppose I could have made a soft link to it, but moving it outright has caused me no problems.
So now, on this front at least, life is back to normal.
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