Need Older Version of ColdFusion?

2009 December 17
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by Big Mad Kev

I needed to get older versions of ColdFusion so that I could do some development on my machine locally, so having installed ColdFusion 9 as Multi Server in developer mode. I needed to get the EAR files for ColdFusion 7 & 8 so I went to the ColdFusion site and of course with the release of ColdFusion 9 there is only a link to ColdFusion 8, which had a URL Parameter that was "coldfusion8" so I thought hey lets change that 8 to a 7 and hey presto I had access to the ColdFusion 7 downloads. So I now have an instance of my blog running locally in CF7 (For my current host), CF8 for the sake of it and of course CF9 as its the latest and greatest.

So in case you need the older versions here are the links I used:

ColdFusion 9 - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion

ColdFusion 8 - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion8

ColdFusion 7 - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion7

Couldn't find MX/6.01 but then again it wasn't truly supported on the Mac. Hope this helps someone who needs to get an older version of ColdFusion.

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  1. Jose Galdamez
    Jose Galdamez PERMALINK
    Dec 17, 2009 at 3:34 AM

    I seriously need to get around to setting up the multi-server environment the right way. My iMac at work is currently set up to auto-start both CF8 and CF9 (each on top of JRun) at boot up. Eats up 1GB of RAM right away. You recommend any guides for setting this all up on the Mac?

  1. Steven Erat
    Steven Erat PERMALINK
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 PM

    @Jose: For development purposes on local computer just modify JRun4/bin/jvm.config to set the -Xmx value to something much smaller. In fact on my Mac I have multiserver and I run with -Xmx of 192m with no problems. Each instance can then use that much. Be sure to also lower the maxpermsize to something like 64 or 96m as well. Of course this is NOT recommended for any staging, qa, or prod machine. Just something to keep your laptop nimble. You can also configure multiple jvm.config files so that each instance has different memory parameters. See Using Multiple JVM combos here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/jrun/4/JRun_Service_Pack_1_Guide/4relnotes7.htm

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