Stuck running the ColdFusion 'Migration wizard'? Here's how to get past that
Note: This blog post is from 2016. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Someone presented a problem on a discussion list where they found that upon installing CF, they got to the "migration wizard" screen, and though it offered the option to "continue" if it hung up, it did not continue for him. In this post, I'll share how to get past that prompt, if this happens to you. (And despite that image on the right showing ColdFusion 11, this could conceivably happen in CF10, CF9, and so on, and this same solution applies to all.)
For the anxious folks who want to "skip the waffle" and context/setup, the solution is at the very bottom. :-)
And consider also that he'd mentioned that his machine did NOT have a prior installation of CF on it, so that was all the more reason why he didn't even need the migration wizard to run.
I did clarify both those points, but given your observation, I have tweaked the article in a few places to make it clear that of course one could use the same mechanism, setting those values to "true", to try to run the wizard again at a later time.
I also added mention of the CAR mechanism as another way to export/import admin settings, including the fact that CF 11 now offers that in Standard, pointing to a blog post I had done on that. (Before anyone would crow that that support in CF 11 won't help if the previous version, which one wants to export from, is NOT Enterprise, I do realize that and discuss it in that other blog post.)
We are using CF now for more than 20 years and want to install a brand new test with CF 2021. The proces is a sham(e). I have to refer to your CF11 post!
Anyway, hope this helped you get past your encountering it. That's indeed why I wrote it.
In either case, note that this mig wizard is a *post-install* process, not one even provided by the full installer itself: it's provided on the first run of the cf admin.
Since those points are made clear in the post above, I feel like somehow you're coming at this from a different perspective. Clearly you favor the silent installer. What is it that you want to do via such complete automation that you aren't sure you can do?
Is it that you simply want such a "silently installed" cf to pull in all settings from an earlier cf version installed on the same machine, whatever those may be? If so, that seems rather curious for someone favoring silent install, where the whole point is to completely control configuration of the installation into an automated, repeatable process, producing a specific implementation. Having that "just pickup all settings" of a prior version would seem to go against that goal. But maybe you trust ALL the prior settings, for use in the new one.
It seems reasonable to argue that Adobe might not have provided for that rather unique use case, since the percentage of installs done silently seems already to be a tiny minority--and I've been meaning to to promote it, as many are simply unaware of it.
But maybe you really just want some few key things, like datasources, scheduled tasks, mappings, etc. rather than ALL settings. And you DO just want to "suck those in" from a prior cf install on the same machine, whatever they may be.
In that case I can propose a different solution to suit you, new since I wrote this post. And it could help people wanting to do that even if NOT using silent installation. It's an interesting idea.
Let's make sure first that I'm reading you right, and I'll then respond with more detail--or perhaps a new post. :-)
And were you interested in my last idea, if I correctly interpreted your situation?