Thursday, April 17, 2003
CFCHART needs XFree86 to run
Found this interesting post on CFAUSSIE.
We had installed a very "lean" redhat 7.3 + apache 2.0.40, mainly to reduce security issues and improve performance, so inevitably, XFree86 and it's libraries did NOT get installed.
To cut a long story short, the graphing engine in CFMX requires server side graphics and font libraries due to it's rendering behaviour. We fixed it by installing
- XFree86-libs-4.2.0-8.i386.rpm
- freetype-2.0.9-2.i386.rpm
on the server and cycling coldfusion. It now all works.
[Grant Straker - www.straker.com.au]
Thought it might come in handy for Daemonite readers.
Posted by modius at 09:40 PM | Permalink
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Geoff, we noticed a very similar behaviour on Windows. CFMXs charting won't work when running it on a W2K machine with just the standard VGA driver (640x480 px / 16 colors) installed.
Cheers,
Kai
Posted by: Kai on April 19, 2003 08:35 PM
I think there is also another issue in that if you move the CFIDE (which in fact you CANT now do under CFMX 6.1) for security purposes then the CFCHART stuff wont work (because it relies on that directory being available).
There may be a way around this because the CFIDE/RDS stuff is configured in an XML file - but I have not tried it.
Regards,
Gary
Posted by: Gary Menzel on August 8, 2003 05:11 PM