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CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION 10
Working with Server Manager
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Note:
The Server Manager AIR application supports only ColdFusion instances.
To register a ColdFusion server:
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Click the (+) sign in the right-pane of the Server Manager.
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Enter the server details including the server name, host name/IP address, port number, context root (for J2EE
servers), and its user name and password.
You can configure the host by specifying any either the hostname or the IP address. It is recommended that you
register a particular server either using hostname or IP address only once from Server Manager AIR application. If
you register the same server more than once, you might experience the following exception:
[BlazeDS]Unhandled error when processing a message: flex.messaging.LocalizedException:
The FlexSession is invalid.
message = There was an unhandled failure on the server. The FlexSession is invalid.
Exception: flex.messaging.LocalizedException: The FlexSession is invalid.
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Click Apply. After the server is registered, it appears in the All Servers list of the Server Manager. If the server details
and authentication details are correct then the server status is displayed as 'Logged In' otherwise 'Login Failed' or
'Unreachable' status is displayed.
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Select the icon adjacent to the Server drop-down list in the left-pane to fetch details of the registered ColdFusion
server instance.
To get the latest information about a server instance, fetch these details from the main ColdFusion server.
Note:
For server clusters, register each instance in the cluster with the Server Manager.
By default, the registered servers appear in Quick View in the right-pane of the All Servers tab. If you have associated
the server instance or cluster to a group, then it appears under the group tab also.
After you register a server instance, you can apply a hot fix or clear the server template cache. You can perform these
tasks for an individual server instance or for multiple servers. For details on performing these tasks, see “
Apply hot fix
”
on page 148 and “
Clear template cache
” on page 147.
Start and stop ColdFusion server instance
While reconfiguring some settings in ColdFusion, you may need to restart the server. With Server Manager, you can
restart the server without logging into host.
You can configure the start and stop functionality for any of the following server types that has a ColdFusion instance
deployed:
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Tomcat (Standalone)
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WebLogic
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WebSphere
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JBoss
For more information on deploying ColdFusion on an application server, see ColdFusion J2EE deployment and
configurationin the
Installing ColdFusion
.
The general approach to implement the start and stop operation for a server is as follows:
1
For starting/stopping server, deploy the WAR file specific to the application server on the application server to run
start and stop operations.
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The deployed WAR instance should be in running state in the application server to be able to start or stop a
ColdFusion server instance from the Server Manager.