how would i go about making my server compliant with cold fusion?

I doubt there is any special requirements apart from installing and running the Coldfusion server application on the machine.

where can i get the cold fusion server application?

ColdFusion is now under the hands of Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfus..._prod_cf_082403

There is two parts to the program. The developer edition which allows you to build coldfusion applications and the server edition which allows you to deploy the applications. I believe the developer edition is free.

If you're on Win2k3, then the CFMX setup process is mostly painless. I can't speak for CF on Linux, though.

If you're on a tight budget and need CFML support, you might also consider NewAtlanta's BlueDragon. The base server is free for production use, and provides most of CFMX's capabilities. (You mostly lose the J2EE integration stuff and access to handy things like getPageContext(), and CFMX6.1's ability to compile directly to bytecode.)

unfortanately im on linux.... well this seems to be the only time it is unfortanate....

stupid macromedia....

Both CFMX and BlueDragon will run on Linux.

Coldfusion has a Linux version so that should not be a problem.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfus...nfo/systemreqs/

you think it would be alright if im running a 2.4 celeron?

IMX, CFMX wants memory more than it wants raw CPU horsepower. So while a faster box is always a good thing, a RAM upgrade might have more impact.

I'm trying to install the free, stand-alone version of bluedragon, which only processes coldfusion tags(not java, or j2ee). I'm getting an error that says...
"error when loading shared libraries: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

I really want to use bluedragon, but can't seem to find out how to install. Any help out there?