This is a new (to me) MacBook Pro. I have MAMP and Coldfusion8 running beautifully on my PowerBook G4.

Something is still not registering the ‘.cfm” extension to be handled by Leopard/MAMP (latest version, BTW).

If I get CF to “work” then Apache on MAMP won’t restart. The /MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf gets this (set up by CF install I presume):

# JRun Settings
… (about 20 lines of code)

If I delete these lines (comparing the original file before CF install changed it). Then the MAMP allows Apache to restart just fine. But no CF…

Help! I don’t want to carry two laptops around just to be able to use MAMP and Coldfusion 8.

I made a mistake somewhere. I first installed xampp and when that didn’t work I removed it…by dragging it to the trash. Since I’ve installed MAMP, following your instructions, it insists on making my ’start page’ http://localhost/xampp/index.html

Any idea why or where I can change it?

Also, perhaps for the same reason (misconfiguration?) trying to hit the cfadmin after install gives me a 500 server error every time.

“Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.”

I have not had any luck with doing it that way but I did at one time create a file so that when OS X starts up it would start up the ColdFusion server. Also I am not sure but you may be able to some how write an apple script that will run the Terminal commands needed to start CF when MAMP starts up.

Let me know what you come up with.

-Matthew

A quick question - have you had any luck adding the Coldfusion start and stop commands to MAMP’s start and stop scripts? I’ve tried it a couple of different ways, but haven’t yet found any that seem to work. It would be great if I could get MAMP to automatically start and stop ColdFusion with the rest of the services, as it seems that if I shut down the computer without stopping CF, I always have to jump through a number of hoops to get it working again.

As soon as I discovered MAMP for myself I fell in love, but now that I can use CF with MAMP my Development on my Mac is 100% proficient. Thanks for the tip… BTW, I’m eagerly awaiting your Video on using Flex and CF together. I’m starting a project that is going to be built in Flex and will rely on CF as my server-side language, and your video would be of great importance for me.

So glad to hear that this helped.

Just to let everyone know as well I have been able to install the stand alone server and launched it with the Terminal windows just fine as long as you are willing to test using http://localhost:8500/