BlueDragon 7 JX and Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:29:46 GMT

So you want to install BlueDragon 7 (JX version) with Apache 2.2 on your Ubuntu Feisty machine?

Well, lucky for you it is SO EASY!

First- go download BlueDragon JX for linux

Once you have that, head over to Dave Shucks HowTo on installing Apache2.2 from source here. His write-up is for 6.06 (Dapper) but it still works great.

Ok so if you have come this far you know that "IT WORKS!" right?

That was the hard part, now all you need to do is locate the downloaded BlueDragon installation shell script. (Lets say it is in my /home/alynch/download directory) and run it.

Note: Be sure to run the shell script as root if you want it to correctly connect to your Apache webserver.

sudo /home/alynch/download/BlueDragon_Server_JX_70_339-Linux.sh

Not running the script as sudo won't throw any exceptions, but it will fail to make the necessary changes to your httpd.conf file.

Follow the prompts, choose your installation directory or accept the default. And thats it! As soon as the installer is finished, restart Apache and start serving .cfm's through port 80.

FOR MYSQL USERS:

You will need to download the connector from MySQL here

Extract the connector jar file from the downloaded archive. Change the jar file's name:

-from (something like) mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar

-to mysql.jar

And move the mysql.jar to the lib directory of your BlueDragon installation directory. If you had already started BlueDragon, you will need to restart it once you have placed the mysql.jar file in the lib directory.

FYI The default BlueDragon admin location is http://localhost:8080/bluedragon/admin.cfm.

My VERY EARLY impression is that the installer was much nicer than the ColdFusion installer, with heavy points going to the easy of the Apache webserver configuration as compared to wsconfig for ColdFusion. Other than that it's really too early to report on much else.

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BlueDragon 7 JX and Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

Robots and main page accessibility