Migration to ColdFusion 11

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Migration to ColdFusion 11 – Making it Seamless and Easy
Anit Kumar Panda | Sr. Product Consultant

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 Senior Product Consultant for ColdFusion at Adobe
 Interests - Administration, Consulting, Licensing & Webserver Connectors
 Supports ColdFusion customers all across the globe
 80-100 CF customers every month
 You can reach out to me at
 Email: CF.INSTALL@ADOBE.COM (FREE)
 Email: CFSUP@ADOBE.COM
 Adobe Forums: anitkumar85
 Twitter: anitkumar85
 CFML Slack: anitkumar85
Who am I ?

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 Announced on February 27, 2013
 Free ColdFusion Installation & Migration Support from Adobe
 3000+ queries have been responded, till date – How
to/Migration/Installation/Licensing
 2000+ successful migrations and upgrades
 Once again, the email address is cf.install@adobe.com
CF.INSTALL email alias

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ColdFusion dude

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 New HTML to PDF conversion
 New Full CFSCRIPT support
 Security enhancements
 Secure and scalable HTML5 web sockets
 Language enhancements
 New Mobile Application Development
Why Migrate?

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 JRun to Tomcat
 Directory structure
 CFIDE location for CF Administrator
 Connector Tuning
 Earlier Tomcat deployment
(Native tomcat & Customized Tomcat)
Key changes across the versions

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Change in platforms
PlatformsDeprecated
PlatformsAdded

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Migration involves
Architecture – where you are planning to migrate
Support Matrix – what is supported by Adobe
Migration guide
Plan your migration
and

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Old
CF
New
CF
New
CF
Old
CF
OPERATING SYSTEM SERVER
OPERATING
SYSTEM
SERVER 1
OPERATING
SYSTEM
SERVER 2
Types of migration
OR

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Phases of Migration
Migrating the server environment
a) Installing the latest version of ColdFusion
b) Migrating the ColdFusion Settings
Migrating the deployed applications

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Installing the latest version of ColdFusion
Development
Use this profile to set up
your development server
with enhanced debugging
and with low security settings
Production
Use this profile to set up
your internal server with RDS
(and other bundled servers) disabled
and with medium security settings
Production + Secure
Use this profile to set up a
highly secure production server with
the best secure settings automatically
configured and enabled for your server

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Do not configure the connector, during the installation
Installing ColdFusion (Connector)

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Installing ColdFusion (Connector)Installing ColdFusion (Connector)

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Migrating the server environment
a) Installing the latest version of ColdFusion
b) Migrating the ColdFusion Settings
Migrating the deployed applications
Phases of Migration

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What , When & Why
 Archive and deploy ColdFusion settings
 ColdFusion installation is on a different server
 Setup multiple identical servers
 CAR logging is there, to ensure consistency across package creation
and deployment.
ColdFusion Archive (CAR) mechanism

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CAR packaging is scalable

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Migrating the server environment
a) Installing the latest version of ColdFusion
b) Migrating the ColdFusion Settings
Migrating the deployed applications
Phases of Migration

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Migrating the application(s)

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 Helps in migrating
 Validates the CFML syntax
 Doesn’t detect attributes generated dynamically at runtime.
 Doesn’t fix your code
Code Analyzer

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 Filter by severity
 Error reports code that will not execute properly
 Info reports that you should consider editing, but will
execute properly
 The product features to analyze (a list available)
How it looks like

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Migrating the server environment
a) Installing the latest version of ColdFusion
b) Migrating the ColdFusion Settings
Migrating the deployed applications
Phases of Migration

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Check List

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ColdFusion 11 Migration Guide
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/
pdfs/cf11/CF11-migration-guide.pdf

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Migration Tweaks

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adminconfig.xml at {Coldfusion11- Home}/ {instance_name}/lib
Note: - Changes would require a CF Service restart.
Missed the migration wizard

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adminconfig.xml at {Coldfusion11- Home}/ {instance_name}/lib
Note: - Changes would require a CF Service restart.
ODBC Services not created

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Create a "cf10settings" or “cf9settings" directory under {Coldfusion11- Home}/
{instance_name}/lib and copy all the neo-*.xml from old server to new server.
adminconfig.xml at {Coldfusion11- Home}/ {instance_name}/lib
Note: - Changes would require a CF Service restart.
Don’t have CAR file option

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Webserver &
Application Errors

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Resolution: Ensure the bitness of both CF and IIS, are same.
Web server - Error 500

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Resolution: Ensure you have permissions on ColdFusion11configwsconfig
Web server - Error 500.19

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Resolution: Ensure CFIDE and Jakarta virtual directories within the website
Web server - Error 404

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404.3 - MIME type restriction
Resolution: Check %windir%System32inetsrvconfigapplicationHost.config
404.7 – FILE_EXTENSION_DENIED
Resolution: %windir%System32inetsrvconfigapplicationHost.config
Add <fileExtensions allowUnlisted="true"> under <requestFiltering>
Web server - Error 404.3/404.7

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Resolution: Uncheck “Enable Http status code“ at Server Settings > Settings
Application Specific (CF Related) Error(s)

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INSTALLATION
• 7-10 minutes
CF ADMIN SETTING MIGRATION
• 5-6 minutes (create CAR and deploy)
CODE ANALYZER
• 3-4 minutes (for 7GB repository)
CONNECTOR
• 2-3 minutes (removing old + creating new)
Timeline : 30 Minutes

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Understanding the changes across versions
Planning your Migration process
Phases of Migration
CAR migration process and benefits
Role of Code Analyzer in the migration process
Migration Tweaks
Common webserver errors
Summary

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Q & A

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