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The FarCry Installation guide should assist in basic scorched earth installations of FarCry 6.x, in addition to upgrading and migrating existing earlier FarCry 4.0 projects. |
Installer
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| title | The Fortress Release Requires An Updater |
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| Fortress has a modified installer that accommodates all of the underlying schema changes that are part of the 5.0 release. You cannot use Fortress with an existing FarCry project without modification| Upgrading to Formality (v6.0) |
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You should be able to upgrade from FarCry 5.2 with little or no difficulty. Please note you may need to make project code changes to accommodate the removal of deprecated code. Be sure to read through Upgrading From Earlier Versions if you have an existing installation of FarCry earlier than v5.2. |
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Look for the most recent FarCry Community distribution here: http://www.farcrycore.org/go/download |
Simple Install From Webroot
- Make sure you do not have a web mapping for /farcry (if you do, remove it now)
- Download the latest milestone release (http://www.farcrycore.org/go/download)
- Unpack the zip in to a folder called ./farcry under the webroot
- You should have ./farcry/core, ./farcry/projects, ./farcry/plugins, ./farcry/skeletons when you are done
- Create a blank database and point a datasource to it in CF Administrator
- Browse to http://localhost/farcry or equivalent (you should be redirected to http://localhost/farcry/core/webtop/install)
- Follow the installer instructions on your screen
- Yep. It's that easy.
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| title | CRITICAL: Remove Old FarCry CF Mappings |
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If you are installing farcry framework under the webroot, make sure you do not have a coldfusion mapping for /farcry. This may be the case if you are installing on a server where a previous version of FarCry was installed. |
There are four Deployment Configurations supported by the Fortress installer:
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