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MarioFromBelgium
July 1st, 2009, 05:31 AM
Hi,

I'm building my perfect home/development server.

One goal will be to develop a web-app: using coldfusion as application-server. (I know that Coldfusion is not garanteed on UBUNTU but for know I need Coldfusion and UBUNTU)

My problem is not how to install Coldfusion but where!
My question is more general (but I use the Coldfusion install to explain)
The tutorials on how to install Coldfusion don't say where I would best install it.
I' mean when you can use apt-get everything is taken care for you. But in this case (and probably others will come) I have to run the bin-file from the directory where I want to install the soft.

I was thinking to create a dir /etc/coldfusion and in build Coldfusion in that directory.

Would that be the best/most logical thing to do?
Is this the way I should proceed when installing soft that is not in apt-get?

Mario

Kareeser
July 1st, 2009, 09:26 AM
/opt


http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

:)

scorp123
July 1st, 2009, 04:03 PM
/opt

+1 !!

scorp123
July 1st, 2009, 04:04 PM
/etc/coldfusion /etc is for config files. ):P