Rob's Ramblings: CF9 on OS X Lion anyone? (update: it works)

CF9 on OS X Lion anyone? (update: it works)

Jul 20

posted by Rob Barthle in OS X, ColdFusion | 16 Comments

I use my Macbook Pro daily as my primary development computer, and before I pull the trigger on upgrading to 10.7 Lion I need to know how CF9 will perform because I cannot afford any downtime. I cannot find anything on this on the net so far, it looks like nobody tested it out officially.

If anyone has upgraded to 10.7, can you please let me know what issues you had with ColdFusion 9 running on it?

My first concern was the lack of Java in Lion. Even with the capability to download Java for Lion I'm concerned that there will be problems.

If I wasn't using CF9 daily for my work, I'd be glad to be a guinea pig. But I don't have that luxury so I need others to be instead. :-)

Update: I installed Lion, and after installing Java for Lion have had no issues with CF9, MAMP Pro, or my MySQL and MSSQL databases. Only thing that happened to me was the internal IP address of my VMware Win7 instance changed, so I had to update the MSSQL datasources to use the new address.

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#1 by Richard Herbert on 7/20/11 - 6:27 PM

I've commented here...

http://www.trunkful.com/index.cfm/2011/7/20/ColdFu...

...and it seems okay on first inspection.
#2 by Stéphane Vantroyen on 7/20/11 - 6:48 PM

Seems ok at first sight on my machine (need to restart computer after install of java to make CF start correctly), CF seems to react properly.
#3 by Steven Forehand on 7/20/11 - 7:11 PM

Been running CF 9 on Lion for quite some time without issue.
#4 by Rob Barthle on 7/20/11 - 7:37 PM

Awesome. It looks like I'll be doing the update tonight then!
#5 by Scott Stroz on 7/20/11 - 9:02 PM

I have to ask, how have you been running CF9 on Lion 'for quite some time' if it was just released in the last 24 hours?
#6 by Nolan Erck on 7/20/11 - 10:13 PM

Well, it sounds like you know the potential BAD things in this scenario (being down for a long period of time due to incompatibility). Is there an equal or greater GOOD reason for upgrading so soon that might trump this bad one? Unless Apple added a button you press to make money (and a new laptop running 10.5) fall from the sky, it doesn't seem worth the risk to me. What feature in Lion do you -need- this quickly? Is there a 3rd party app that would do the same thing (and leave your worries about CF behind)? hth
#7 by Rob Barthle on 7/21/11 - 12:29 AM

@Nolan - that's a fair question. I have a pretty bad "shiny new toy" urge that is usually held in check by the relative unaffordability of things for me. Lion is affordable, and it's giving me a way to scratch that itch. But I'm aware of it, so if I am going to scratch that itch I am going to do my research first and at least do it somewhat smartly.
#8 by Adam Tuttle on 7/21/11 - 2:48 AM

@Scott It's not at all uncommon for people to be on the Mac OS pre-releases. That's why they're there, after all -- Just as Adobe uses them to get feedback and give some developers a chance to prepare for the coming changes, so does Apple. Not everyone is a pirate. ;)
#9 by Anthony Webb on 8/13/11 - 3:56 AM

Rob, what gives man? I am reading all over the place about how unusable CF is on OSX Lion, then I see you have it rocking fine? What am I missing here? I was nearly ready to give up on CF for lion: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3859443#3859443
#10 by Rob Barthle on 8/15/11 - 12:38 PM

Anthony, reading the forums I see two main differences between my setup and those that are saying it doesn't work for them.

First off, I see people talking about issues using the Apache server built into OS X. I use MAMP Pro. Originally it was for a convenience factor, adding a new site for development takes mere seconds and not having to manage Apache and MySQL separately. But now it looks like it has an added bonus of working out of the gate with Lion.

Secondly, most of the complaints revolve around multi-server instances of CF. I use the standalone single server instance and it looks like nobody is really having problems with that.

Last week I upgraded to MAMP Pro 64-bit v 2.01 and CF9 64-bit. I had to uninstall CF9 32-bit first, but did a complete fresh install of both and set up CF9 into the new MAMP Pro server (settings did not carry over) and had no problems.
#11 by Anthony Webb on 8/19/11 - 6:14 PM

Thanks Rob. I had success with Mamp PRO and CF9 (both 64bit) as well. Bad news is that when I ran the cf9.0.1 updater everything broke :( Have you tried to update yet? One reason I was updating was that the info screen int he cfadmin in 9.0.1 is apparently working. It does not work in CF9.

I've actually restored to my working cf9 install and tried the updater twice now with no success. Anyone else who might have some insight would be appreciated.
#12 by Rob Barthle on 8/19/11 - 6:54 PM

Anthony,

I hate saying this, but I literally just updated to CF 9.0.1 (I misread the CF9 download page and thought the CF9 installer had been updated to CF 9.0.1) without a hitch. :-( I've read other blogs that had the same success. It seems you're a little bit snakebit here.

I can concur with you about the CF9.0 admin info screen not working. And it is working again in CF 9.0.1.

What exactly is not working with CF9.0.1 that was working in CF9.0? If you would like to take it to email, please feel free to fire me an email at rob@barthle.com as well.
#13 by Anthony Webb on 8/20/11 - 6:29 AM

Thanks Rob. I figured I'd ditch MAMP Pro and see if I could get the update to work on the built in apache Lion Server has. It worked fine, and upgraded fine as well. The virtual hosts were a bit finicky, but in the end victory was mine. I'm fully updated with CF, MySQL is installed and running fine, and I think I'm ready for some primetime. Thanks again for the post.
#14 by Joseph on 9/13/11 - 9:12 AM

This was a really very good article. Thanks for posting this. =-=
#15 by Anthony Webb on 9/14/11 - 7:04 PM

For those of you running cf 9 on lion, have you checked your kernel.log file? Mine is full of errors that dont mean a whole lot.

I am monitoring the server and occasionally for a period of time apache will simply stop serving traffic. It recovers after a couple minutes automatically, but not a trace of an error in the syslog or any of the cf logs. However the kernel.log is full of these (particularly at the time apache stops serving):

nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2

I know the tcp stack is fine as I can be logged into the box when the error occurs. Any ideas? Perhaps a more general Lion bug?
#16 by luke on 11/11/11 - 10:17 PM

cfdocument is broken on Lion, and Adobe has stated they aren't going to fix it. :(