I think it may actually be a maintenance thing. When I first tried running Coldbox 3.8.1 the Application.cfc was output in plain text without processing it. Someone said that the server may be configured incorrectly, so it’s likely that it was installed by someone that didn’t do it quite correctly. They may be unwilling to install an update because they don’t know how and don’t want to mess it up.
But I’ll definitely mention it in my letter to the dean, present a myriad of options to see if anything will stick.
Myself or my team would be willing to even help your University get it installed at no cost. It is essential for the community, especially the academic community, to be able to play with these technologies.
I’m glad to see your determination to learn MVC. Especially since most ColdFusion courses doesn’t even cover MVC because it’s seen as “advanced” though in any other language like Ruby you’d be taught that on day one.
I encourage you again to just use CommandBox’s server on your own personal PC to play with ColdBox or anything else you want to. Ask your prof if you can demo your work on a local server you’ve set up because you wanted to use some modern frameworks. If she insists that your code must run on CF8, then you’re kind of screwed. None of the modern ColdFusion frameworks support it any longer.
You could try ColdBox 3.0, that probably worked on ColdFusion 8 but I’d rather see your prof come into modernity, or at least allow you to set up a local server on your laptop.
