Coldfusion + XAMPP, when all goes pear shaped
Okay, so I made this post a while ago.
Since then I totally forgot about it, and tried to get CF working again. Oh but wait I forgot what I did!
Found this great blog post that helps debug you’re settings. I recommend it, great article.
http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/configuring-coldfusion-8-with-apache
With my issue, my pages were giving me plain text cf files. It was within my httpd.conf file the… Continue reading
XAMPP running very slow on localhost…
I had this problem yesterday when trying to work on a project at home using XAMPP (Incase you don’t know what XAMPP is, it’s a portable web server… I’ll write another entry about it soon)
Anyway to my problem… so basically you start up XAMPP and load http://localhost/ and it takes foreeverr to load… eventually it will load.
I googled around for solutions and eventually found out what… Continue reading
XAMPP for Windows
I recently started using this program its fantastic! It’s like Uniform Server yet slightly better. XAMPP is a type of WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) that runs straight off your computer.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Uniform Server on the other can run off a single usb – simply by running the app it mounts a virtual drive for your web server and off you go. When your done, simply stop and the drive is unmounted. On the other Continue reading
