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Installing ColdFusion 9 on Ubuntu Linux

rparente — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:05:32 +0000

As I was finishing this guide on installing ColdFusion 9 on Ubuntu Linux I tweeted how many words made up the text (over 6,000). Several people commented on Twitter and Facebook saying things like: “[the length] seems a bit excessive,” and “is it that complicated?” The thing is, I’m covering much more than simply installing ColdFusion. Overall, just installing ColdFusion isn’t that big of a deal. But I’ve yet to see a guide or blog post that outlines all the other topics related to getting a decent ColdFusion server on Ubuntu up and running. That’s why I wrote this super guide, to outline what I believe is important to know about installing ColdFusion. Of course, I’m not covering every single possible detail, but I believe I’ve hit on all the major topics. Along the way I sprinkle in my own ideas, thoughts, and what I believe are best practices. After you read this post and walk through all the instructions you should have a very solid ColdFusion / Apache set up on Ubuntu Linux.

Here is the full article by Aaron West.

ColdFusion Under Windows XP/Ubuntu

rparente — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:21:21 +0000

I am a Windows guy, no experience on Linux at all. Some time ago I decided to start playing with Linux. I had Vista installed on my laptop (from factory), and I hated it, very slow, lots of problems, mainly when I had to access our office’s VPN. So, since I had 2 hard-drives in the laptop, I decided to install OpenSuse 11 on the second one. With the help of a friend developer, we installed it successfully, but I lost the Vista boot from the first-drive, it seems that the OpenSuse installation messed up with the boot record on the first drive.

I immediately restored my laptop, with the factory disk, to Vista again. I had to install CF, SQL, Eclipse and all the development stuff again under VIsta. Lots of work.That lasted only few months when I started having problems again with Vista.

This time though, I decided to play with Ubuntu. I burned a CD with Ubunto 8.10 deleted all partitions of all my drives in the laptop and began a clean installation of Ubunto on the first drive. Success ! Everything ran smoothly. Then I downloaded and installed VirtualBox from Sun, installed Windowx XP and updated it to SP3. Now I have the perfect environment to start working and playing. Under Windows XP I installed Eclipse, CFEclipse plugin, Subversion (SVN), Cisco VPN Client, MS SQL2005 client tools, and checked out some projects from our SVN repository. I then installed Apache Web Server and ColdFusion Developer Edition.

My concerns were that my laptop drivers would not be compatible with Windows XP, but so far so good, everything is working fine, even the webcam. So no Vista anymore, got my old buddy Windows XP plus a chance to play with Linux and learn more.

A hacker changed my server password!

rparente — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:54:30 +0000

This is not a ColdFusion post, but I found it very interesting for those who work with Linux systems. Jimmy Ray Purser, from Cisco, got attacked by a hacker on his dark net server who changed his root password.

In his post, he explains how he got access back to his server.

Here is his solution:

- Boot the system and get to the GRUB screen. I moved the arrow key so I did not go into normal boot mode.
- Select the version and hit the “E” key to edit the kernel
- Arrow key to the line that begins with Kernel and hit the “E” key
- At the GRUB Edit line, I just simply append the load string with a number 1. So it looks like this:
grub edit>/vmlinuz-2.5.9-22.DRnetsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet 1
- Now hit ENTER and B and the system will boot up into single user mode
- Newcastle time!!! A simple:
sh-2.5# passwd
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully