ColdFusion Configuring Apache On Mac OS X
If you want to run Coldfusion on Mac, here are some good links and other useful information.
To install ColdFusion on Mac you need to have Apache web server installed.
Apace comes with the Mac OS X, but if you need to upgrade to a newer version you can download from The Apache Software Foundation or Server Logistics Free Mac OS X Software. There you also will find: Complete MySQL, Complete Apache 2, Complete PHP, Complete Tomcat and MapServer OSX
Configuring index.cfm as a Default Page of a Directory
Apache will serve up the directly listing as opposed to choosing index.cfm file. So you need to edit the default config file for Apache. Look inn /conf/httpsd.conf.def or /conf/httpsd.conf.
Perhaps this may require some explanation if you’re a newbie.
If you enter a URL without a filename (just a directory), the Web Server will looks to see if there’s a “default page” in the directory. If none of the potential default page names are there, it indexes the directory and produces a list of files as hotlinks.
To configure Apache to serve up index.cfm files when a directory is requested, you will have to edit the default config file for Apache.
You will find that file under Apache/config.
In the config file look for the line "DirectoryIndex index.html" and change that line to "DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.html".
Here I have put index.cfm first, because I wanted that index.cfm files to have priority over index.html files. Note that the Apache file name list is space-delimited.
You have to edit UNIX files with a UNIX editor, below are two good ones.
I prefer to use BBEdit from Bare Bones Software.
Another FREE very good editor is NEdit. NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System.
