I was cruising around Apple's Web site the other day when I happened upon the OS X product page. I was immediately presented with an ad (well, not so much an ad as a photo) for Leopard which is shown below. What the heck Apple? What does this ad mean? What do you mean I can add a new Mac to a Mac? Are you serious? Further thought on the ad produced the idea that perhaps their message is that by buying and installing Leopard (on your existing Mac) you are effectively getting a new one. If that's their point, I think they missed the point of advertising. This has to be the worst attempt from Apple in a long time... they typically are so great at advertising.

I've had ColdFusion 8 running on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and hooked to Apache 2.2.6 for a while now. However, two things have occurred that are prompting me to write this blog entry. First, I've gotten several questions on exactly how I got things working - even with the other blog entries that outline a similar process. Second, I ran into an odd issue Friday when configuring everything on my new work MacBook Pro.

This is a small part of an article I'm writing for the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update Volume 2 Issue 4, due out in February. The information is so important I felt it could not wait, and am publishing this with permission from Fusion Authority. In this blog post, I will discuss the installation issue and its resolution, and provide my consolidated, easy steps for getting ColdFusion 8 hooked to Apache 2.2.x on Leopard.

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