When and how to upgrade CF web server connector, easier in recent CF releases
Note: This blog post is from 2019. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.Did you know that when you update ColdFusion, there is often a need to also update ("upgrade") the web server connector (for IIS and/or Apache)? Did you know that's gotten easier to do since CF2016 came out?
In this post (updated in Oct 2023, for reasons discussed below), I discuss:
- Knowing when a connector upgrade is needed
- How to apply the connector upgrade, via the wsconfig gui or commandline
- What updating the web server connector actually does