CF 8

[gljr]

Hi, basically i have few intranet websites (Internal LAN) that sitting in a
single development server. These intranet websites only for internally use with
multiple instance of SQL 2005 database.
Is the Standard Edition able to serve on the above purpose? Can anyone advise?

[Tariq Ahmed - ACE]

Yup.

Standard Edition doesn't support multiple CF instances, but you can certainly
have multiple website instances by front-ending it with either IIS or Apache.

Apache I think called them Virtual Hosts, and IIS calls them Sites. In IIS
you'd create as many sites as you need, and the can all use the same port 80,
but are differentiated by the hostname that you access them by (via a host
header setting in IIS).

On the DB side of things... that's just a matter of setting up datasources in
the CF Admin.

[Ian Skinner]

Post by gljr
Is the Standard Edition able to serve on the above purpose? Can anyone advise?

Yes the common confusion here is the difference between multiple web
sites and multiple ColdFusion instances.


ColdFusion Enterprise has the ability to run multiple, completely
separate CF instances on the server only limited by the capabilities of
your hardware. ColdFusion Standard will only allow one CF instance on
the server.

Each and every CF instance can be connected to as many web sites|virtual
hosts from one or more web servers as you care to load it down with.