Overview of configuration tasks

Managing ColdFusion services in Windows and Managing the ColdFusion process in UNIX

For your changes to take effect when you stop and restart ColdFusion, for example after you enable or disable security in the ColdFusion Administrator or change any of the Java and JVM settings. You can do this at any time after you install ColdFusion.

Configuring web servers

When moving to a production server or when the built-in web server no longer meets your needs.

Enabling CORBA support

If you must make CORBA invocations from ColdFusion. You can do this after you install ColdFusion and before you make a CORBA call from ColdFusion.

Disabling Remote Development Services

For security reasons, disable RDS when you move an application to the production environment.

Disabling JSP functionality (server configuration only)

When running ColdFusion Enterprise Edition in a hosted environment, you might want to disable JSP processing.

Changing the ColdFusion user account in Windows

Iif you discover that the account under which ColdFusion is running has inappropriate access rights; for example, to interact with remote data sources, other application pages, or COM objects. You must also do this to be able to print to a printer using the cfprint tag. You can do this after you install ColdFusion and before you deploy your application.