Yes. Immediately after I posted my last comment I came across the Jetty method which I'm now testing. Thanks for your replies. I'm very excited about the prospect of openBD. CFML should not be allowed to disappear into obscurity. Keep up the good work chaps.

@Xoundboy. I am glad you liked the presentation. To get you up and running with Tomcat and Virtual hosts you should check out our blog at http://blog.sixsigns.com. I have blogged about this many times.

Kind Regards, Nitai

@Xoundboy--your easiest route is to download the OpenBD Jetty bundle, which is configured to serve CFML from multiple contexts using a single instance of the OpenBD engine.

This is also doable on Tomcat but we don't currently have a pre-configured setup for that. We'll add that (or a how-to at least) to the to-do list.

Great tutorial. I managed to get this working once I figured out that I needed to have Java installed as a prerequisite. I'm fairly new to the server admin game - only a few months under my belt so far and so having a video tutorial like this is really refreshing after many long nights spent poring over how tos and blog articles.

My goal (like Shawn's who posted the first comment) is to get my virtual hosts' .CFM pages to be processed by openbd on a VPS that I use to host my clients' sites.

How is this possible without running a separate instance of tomcat and openbd for each separate site that uses CFM pages?

Hi Shawn

I am not sure if I understand your question, but you should be apply to only forward .CFM requests to OpenBD, but the question is more, why you want to do such a thing? Tomcat or Jetty are highly capable J2EE servers and will render your CFM pages very fast.

If I remember correct, just recently there was a question about how to run PHP and CFM pages in the same virtual host on the OpenBD Mailing List. You might look it up in the Google archive.

Please feel free to ask again.

Kind Regards, Nitai

Thanks for the excellent tutorial Nitai! This is a great way to tie apache httpd to openbd as a complete web application - however, I'm wondering, is there a way to configure these such that you can host your site under a normal virtual host and direct CFM files ONLY to be handled by OpenBD, in the same way that you can mix/match cfm/html/jpeg/css etc under a virtual host with coldfusion + apache httpd?