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wasistdas
01-04-2006, 03:15 PM
Does anyone can overview what's available? Thanx

sshepherd
01-04-2006, 08:25 PM
You mean ColdFusion?

To my knowledge there is no solid/good control panel for hosting ColdFusion. You can buy the addon for Plesk Windows but all that really does is give you control from within your CP to enable/disable CF hosting for specific clients.

You're still left dealing with the annoying micro-management custom configs per user on request, security issues, and other hassles. I haven't looked at the latest version Macromedia released but from their track record they've never been too host or developer friendly with the way they built the CF administration and lack or control therein.

wasistdas
01-07-2006, 12:18 PM
The only panel I know is developed by guys at cfm-resources.com. So no other panel are there?

sshepherd
01-09-2006, 09:46 AM
I'm not even sure I'd call the cfm-resources.com script a "panel", it lacked too much even 3 years or so ago when I saw it.

Macromedia has always encrypted or locked away functions for the CF server so you can't write a complete 3rd party interface. There was a code library available online 2yrs ago that gave partial access to CF Server functions but that was for CF5, and I have no ideas what it's status would be today. It certainly wasn't enough for a developer to fully take advantage of to write a panel, I found it trying to figure out a way to automaticly create sandbox path's for client accounts as they were created.

GigabitONE
01-09-2006, 01:28 PM
I'm not even sure I'd call the cfm-resources.com script a "panel", it lacked too much even 3 years or so ago when I saw it.

Macromedia has always encrypted or locked away functions for the CF server so you can't write a complete 3rd party interface. There was a code library available online 2yrs ago that gave partial access to CF Server functions but that was for CF5, and I have no ideas what it's status would be today. It certainly wasn't enough for a developer to fully take advantage of to write a panel, I found it trying to figure out a way to automaticly create sandbox path's for client accounts as they were created.

Yes. I do agree