David Sirr's ...stuff

Creating the new coldFusion instance

• login to the main coldfusion administrator (e.g. http://localhost/cfide/administrator)
• go to enterprise manager / instance manager
• select 'add new instance'
• enter a server name (e.g. 'newcfusion')
• leave server directory as default (/Applications/JRun4/servers)
• leave create from EAR/WAR blank
• submit form and wait for everything to finish
• the link you are provided to continue will probably be broken so ignore and click on 'instance manager' again
• open the /Applications/JRun4/ColdFusionLauncher.app and select your instance and click start if it is not running already
• click the button next to your instance name to launch the adminstrator and configure your instance (e.g.http://localhost:8301/cfide/administrator)

Hooking the new instance into a specific apache website

For and apache website to talk to a specific jrun (CF) instance you need to bind an apache virtual host to a jrun proxyport for your coldfusion instance

• make sure the admin jrun instance is started
• browse to http://localhost:8000 and login with admin and the administrator password you gave when installing coldfusion
• click the new instance from the left nav, and click services
• you then need to note down the proxyPort (e.g. 51000) and click the green play button to start the proxyService
• open up the httpd.conf or the apache vhost site config file and inside your <virtualHost> add:

<ifModule mod_jrun22.c>
# override the default bootstrap in the httpd.conf to bind to my new coldfusion instance
JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51000
</ifModule>

• restart apache after the cfinstance is running and it should now be using the new instance

Autostarting your new instance at system boot

You need to use a program like smultron to edit the file ColdFusion8Multi in /Library/StartupItems/ColdFusion8Multi and add: su $RUNTIME_USER -c "$CF_DIR/bin/jrun -stop newcfusion" under the line su $RUNTIME_USER -c "$CF_DIR/bin/jrun -stop cfusion" in the if block, and also outside the if block: su $RUNTIME_USER -c "$CF_DIR/bin/jrun -start newcfusion >& $CF_DIR/logs/newcfusion-event.log &" basically the same lines already present in ColdFusion8Multi but replace cfusion with your instance name, also make sure the log file has write permission!