Dear Anit
Thank you so much for all the help! The general guide on the differences immediately solved one problem once I changed the name of "application.cfm" to "Application.cfm"
I am far from a "power user", but am enjoying the learning process. Inevitably I find that most of my encountered problems are associatied with permissions.
For a few brief years I was a cf developer, but now work in the tennis field at a large club. I developed an application which saved me hours and hours of work, and this application has become a key element in the whole summer program. Unfortunately, after migrating to CF10 from CF9 I can no longer connect to smtp.gmail.com (after hours and hours of searching for a work-around). Luckily I still had the same application on an older laptop, which was using CF9 ... and so I was still able to work as I wanted.
I decided to partition my new laptop to see if CF10 would work as I needed on Ubuntu.... which explains my intial posting.
I am very happy to report that, with your help, I have had success. For the record this is what I did
- after installing Ubuntu I followed this great guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache-and-coldfusion-9-on-ubuntu -9.04 (of course installing the downloaded CF10 and not CF9)
- BUT, the apache connector didn't work for me. (this was before the above posting of Anit's ... and as a Ubuntu newbe I couldn't see any way forward)
- so I uninstalled coldfusion and reinstalled ... as a standalone server
- no problem at all viewing the CF Admin page
- after installing and running msql, I imported my club database and application files
- not a problem creating the appropriate datasource within CF Admin
- BUT, I couldn't view my application in a browser after moving it to the "wwwroot" folder
- finally I (fortuitously) changed the permissions on this application folder so that I had appropriate rights ... which had a GUI allowing me to do so, otherwise I think I never would have done it alone!
- Immediately I could view index.cfm, but then I would have a DATASOURCE error when I drilled down
- Once I saw that "application.cfm" had to have a capital "A" i.e. "Aplication.cfm" everything worked
- went to "mail" under CF Admin. Verifying my mail server was at first annoying. Port 465 with TLS checked didn't work ... but then port 587 verified!
- a test email to myself using my application in the browser proved successful...yay!
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
Again Anit, thank you for your help!