This guide was created using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

Recently, I was tasked with installing ColdFusion 11 on an Ubuntu server and never having dealt with Linux in any meaningful way I discovered that the existing installation guides dealt with older versions of ColdFusion (versions 8 or 9). As such, the guides were missing certain steps that was added in newer versions of the ColdFusion installer. This is my attempt to create a current guide for installing ColdFusion 11 on Ubuntu.

ColdFusion 11 requires that libstdc++5 be installed before installation. In the console, type the following two commands to check if libstdc++5 is installed. If not, then it will install it:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Also insure that Apache2 is installed. Type the following command in the console.