ColdFusion 11 RDS in Homesite

Question

Has anyone been able to get an RDS connection working between ColdFusion 11 and HomeSite? If so, I'd sure appreciate some specifics. I've tried about everything, and I get an error "HTTP Error :404".

Thanks. -bg

Answer 1

I got it working. It was a problem with the configuration on the server. It works now in ColdFusion Builder 3 AND HomeSite+.

Answer 2

CF6 through 9 used JRun, so I can image that HomeSite's RDS implementation was suited to that server. Now that CF 10 and 11 run on Tomcat instead of JRun, I can't imagine that the RDS connection will work. Nor can I see Adobe issuing a patch for a piece software they never supported.

If you want an IDE with ColdFusion 10/11 RDS support, you're going to have to bite the bullet and move to ColdFusion Builder. If you want a better editor and can do without the RDS support, I'd suggest Sublime Text.

Answer 3

The following Apache directive fixed the 404 issue with RDS:

<Location "/CFIDE/main/ide.cfm">
  SetHandler jakarta-servlet
</Location>

Turns out Apache tries to verify that the file exists but this one doesn't, hence the 404. The /CFIDE/main/ide.cfm location is mapped to the RDS servlet in the Tomcat config so you need to tell Apache to route requests to that location to Tomcat.