MrBuzzy.blog » GoDaddy

CF’s CreateObject() on GoDaddy

MrBuzzy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:24:51 +0000

The fact that GoDaddy disable the ColdFusion CreateOject function is a real pain. I’ve previously blogged about it, as have a number of others. Scott Pinkston does a good summary of how to code around it.

It continues to annoy people who then vent about it on Sean’s lengthy CF GoDaddy blog entry. And fair enough too.

Here’s the good news… CreateObject(“component”,…) works just fine on the Linux hosting! No really it does.

Here’s the working ModelGlue Widget example (Reactor version). That would never run if CreateObject was barred.

What about the Transfer version of that example? Well that ain’t going to work properly. It uses CreateObject(“java”,…) which is still blocked. Let’s check the ORM scoreboard… Reactor 1 – Transfer 0.

Finally, CF8 is just around the corner. It has a number of features that address these issues, like; Optionally restricting access to runtime/system java classes. Per application settings (think custom tag paths and mappings).

How long it will take GoDaddy to upgrade to CF8? A fricken long time is my guess :(

Linux, done!

MrBuzzy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:24:18 +0000

The move from Windows to Linux was really smooth. I was pleasantly surprised. It took about 2 hours and although I made backups of everything, I really didn’t need to. All files and databases were preserved perfectly and Wordpress started working properly. Hence the new banner image, thanks go to iTunes and mspaint. This has been my first good GoDaddy experience, alas I’m not likely to switch the OS again.

On the move

MrBuzzy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:16:20 +0000

I’m already over trying to make Wordpress run on Windows (argh GoDaddy). They’ve got me, I’m upgrading my account and moving to Linux hosting. If my backups work properly, this blog will be resurrected on the new platform in a few days. I’ll then be able to do ‘fun’ stuff like customize the blog banner. Yay.
I doubt this transition will be smooth and I’d almost bet that the ColdFusion ‘add on’ wont be swapped across to Linux, I’ll have to chase it up. But we’ll soon see.

Wordpressive!

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:56:39 +0000

Very cool. Bye bye Blogcfc… for now.