running Adobe ColdFusion 9 on CF8 with simple url rewriting

At work, we use are transitioning to Adobe ColdFusion 9. Our local development is multiple instances created with an Adobe ColdFusion 8 installer. It was very easy to get an ACF9 instance going. We created a ACF9 war and used that when creating a new instance in the ColdFusion administrator. I noticed simple friendly urls like index.cfm/myController/myAction wasn't working in CF9. It came down to uncommenting a section in the web.xml for ACF9(SES).

For me, the web.xml was C:\JRun4\servers\ACF9\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\WEB-INF\web.xml . Search for SES (around line 436) and then remove the comments around:

  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_6">
     <servlet-name>CfmServlet</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>*.cfml/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_7">
    <servlet-name>CfmServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.cfm/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_8">
    <servlet-name>CFCServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.cfc/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

Next restart your instance and you should have rewriting working.