ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on Macintosh
Thanks are in order for Steven Erat for all of the very helpful posts about CFMX7 on a Macintosh. I just installed it quite successfully on my PowerBook, on the second try. I encountered two issues during installation.
This installation was done with the ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 English release, on Mac OS X 10.4.4. I used the exact procedure outline in Steven’s article mentioned above, except for specific changes described below.
On the first attempt, I tried installing CF 7 to /opt/ColdFusionMX7. The installer appeared to be installing files, but after it “finished” the directory and files were nowhere to be found and the cfmx process was not running. The opt directory did already exist, but the ColdFusionMX7 subdirectory did not. I tried creating the subdirectory by hand before re-attempting the installation, but found that I did not have access to do this unless I did it as root. I decided not to mess with that and just installed ColdFusion in the default /Applications/ColdFusionMX7 directory.
So on the second attempt I installed to the default directory, and everything worked great. I was able to start up the application server and log in to the ColdFusion Administrator. The second problem occured when I tried to use wsconfig (via ColdFusionLauncher.app) to re-configure ColdFusion to use Apache. wsconfig asked for my current password, and refused to believe that I entered the correct password. It appears that it choked on one or more of the punctuation characters used in my password, because wsconfig happily accepted the password after I temporarily changed it to all letters. Other than that, wsconfig set up the Apache configuration for me perfectly. The installer had no problem, however, accepting complex ColdFusion Adminstrator and RDS passwords.
So watch out for password acceptance problems and custom installation directory problems.