Upgrade 4.5 to 7

Hello all. I have a 2003 server running CF 4.5. We just
purchased version 7 so I am looking for clues as to how to go about
doing the upgrade.



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.



Take care.



Joe

Upgrade 4.5 to 7
You have to install ColdFusion 7 on the same box and see if
it will recognize your ColdFusion 4.5 installation. I believe it
won't, as the last version that ColdFusion MX recognixes is 5. But
you can give it a shot. If it does recognize it, then it will
migrate all the settings. If it does not recognize it, then you
will have to do everything manually, as there is no specific
procedure in place on how to migrate from 4.5 to 7.Upgrade 4.5 to 7
Test every single page. We did a similar upgrade and
generally speaking, version 7 less forgiving of less that ideal
code than version 4.5
We recently did the same upgrade - 4.5 to MX 7 - we built a
new box for the install because we needed it anyway. It was pretty
straight-forward. I did find the code analyzer tool very helpful in
finding any issues with old deprecated code. You'll want to use
that once you get your install done. And we went to using the
thin-client jdbc drivers for the db connections. We connect mainly
to Oracle for most of our projects. I can give info if needed how
to do this.
Our situation is very similar to yours. We are going to
install MX 7 on a new box. How did you migrate CF 4.5 settings to a
new server?
CF7 did not recognize 4.5 so I had to uninstalled 4.5 and
then install 7. We had only a few settings that needed to be
changed in 7 to match those that were in 4.5 but other than that,
the CF install made all the changes in IIS for us.





Good luck.



Joe

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