System requirements for Windows

This section lists the Windows system requirements for the Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. An "x" in the following table means that the edition supports the requirement in that row.

Requirement	Developer Edition	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition
Windows version
Windows 98^*	x	x	x
Windows Millennium Edition (ME)^*	x	x
Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation and Server^†) SP6A	x	x	x
Windows NT 4 Server, Enterprise Edition SP6A	x	x	x
Windows 2000 (Professional SP3 or higher, Server SP3 or higher^†, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server)	x	x	x
Windows XP (Home and Professional)	x	x	x
Windows 2003 (Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions)	x	x	x
Hardware
Processor	Pentium	Pentium	Pentium
Colors	256	256	256
Minimum RAM (MB)	128	256	256
Recommended RAM (MB)	256	512	512
Free hard disk space (MB)	450 to install 250 to run	450 to install 250 to run	450 to install 250 to run
CD drive	x	x	x
Web servers
ColdFusion MX built-in web server	x	x	x
Microsoft IIS 4.0, 5.x, 6	x	x	x
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6x	x	x	x
iPlanet 4.x SunONE Web Server 6.x (formerly iPlanet 6.x	x	x	x
Apache web server 1.3.22-1.3.27, 2.0.43 or higher	x	x	x
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Note: ColdFusion MX 6.1 ships with the Sun 1.4.2 JVM.
Sun JDK/JRE 1.3.1 or later	x	x	x
IBM JVM 1.2.2-1.3 or later	x	x	x
Browsers for ColdFusion MX Administrator
Internet Explorer 5.x, 6	x	x	x
Netscape Communicator 4, 6	x	x	x
Mozilla 1.0	x	x	x
Databases
Oracle 8i R2-R3 (8.1.6 - 8.1.7) Oracle 9i R1-R2			x
Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5 and higher Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.0 and 12.5			x
DB2 UDB for Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Linux/s390 v7.1, v7.2, v8.1 DB2 UDB for OS/390 v6.1 DB2 UDB for z/OS and OS/390 v7.1, v7.2			x
Informix Dynamic Server 9.2x and 9.3x			x
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000 (including service packs 1, 2, and 3)	x	x	x
MySQL 3.23.47	x	x	x
Microsoft Access 97, 98, 2000, 2003 (MDAC 2.6 sp2 or higher)	x	x	x
SQLAnywhere	x	x	x
PostgreSQL	x	x	x

* ColdFusion MX only supports the built-in web server for this platform. Macromedia does not recommend using the built-in web server in a production environment.

Comments are no longer accepted for ColdFusion MX 6.1. ColdFusion 8 is the current version.

Comments

jrunrandy said on Oct 24, 2003 at 11:45 AM :

After you install the Visual C++ 6.0 runtime components, you must manually copy msvcp60.dll from the install directory to the system32 Directory.

jrunrandy said on Oct 31, 2003 at 6:34 AM :

A few more clarifications. MDAC is only required if you are using the ODBC Type III database drivers or the Unicode/Access database driver.

From the MSVC runtime, you also need msvcrt.dll.

Runtime modules should be in the windows\system32 directory (this might also be named WINNT\system32).

No screen name said on Dec 10, 2003 at 4:12 AM :

About missing msvcp60.dll when installing CF MX on W2000 advanced server, a 'simple solution' to solve this problem... install DirextX9

No screen name said on Jan 8, 2004 at 10:31 AM :

Tried the install of directx 9 on my windows 2000 server and it DID NOT install the msvcp60.dll. YMMV

noeiza said on May 31, 2004 at 12:35 PM :

What is the purpose of macromedia?

lbryngel said on Jun 16, 2004 at 10:59 AM :

Note there are certain Windows OS's that don't come with a default JRE so you may need to download on of the ones listed in the above system requirements. Without a JRE applet rendering in the CF Admin may cause an error. See this tech doc for more details:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/admin_jre.htm

"By default, a JVM is not included with Windows Server 2003, the original version of Windows XP, or Windows XP SP1a, but the Microsoft VM may be present on these systems if you upgrade over a previous version of Windows that included the Microsoft VM, or if the Microsoft VM was installed by a third party."

No screen name said on Nov 23, 2004 at 7:32 AM :

NOTE: This package does not install these components on computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows Millennium (Me) systems. On computers that are running Windows 2000 and Windows Millennium, these components can only be updated through operating system updates and service packs for these operating systems.

from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259403

EdMoney said on May 4, 2005 at 11:08 AM :

Does MDAC 2.6 and the Visual C++ runtimes need to be installed on windows 2003 servers? I thought windows 2003 servers included mdac 2.8?

jrunrandy said on May 6, 2005 at 5:56 AM :

The following technote has information on installing ColdFusion MX 6.1 on Windows 2003:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=b39c1803


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