Wish it were as easy as it looks

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I have tried several times over the years to use ColdBox, I am a 20 year veteran in ColdFusion. Coldbox looks very comprehensive but is also very complex. I just tried again to use your simple instructions but alas no joy commandbox returned "Command "box install coldbox" cannot be resolved." sigh!!! I guess I will try again in a few years. thx for all your hard work and contribution to the CF community!

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If you’re using the interactive shell (meaning you double clicked box.exe, or ran just “box” from your OS shell) you don’t need to add “box” in front of everything.

So, from DOS/bash:

C:\ > box install coldbox

Using the Interactive shell (starting at DOS/bash:

C:\ > box
CommandBox > install coldbox
…etc…
CommandBox > exit
C:\ > _

What guide were you following? The ColdBox getting started guide shows you exactly what to type in:

http://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/content/getting_started_guide/index.html

Even the CommandBox getting started guide doesn’t show “box” in there.

https://ortus.gitbooks.io/commandbox-documentation/content/getting_started_guide.html

As a general rule, I always write my docs to assume you’re at the CommandBox interactive shell, and add a note somewhere that you only need to add the “box” binary name in front if you’re running the command from your native OS shell.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
Blog: http://www.codersrevolution.com

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Thank you Brad, you nailed it, now that was simple.

I was using the Install instructions on this page ColdBox MVC where it did specify to use the command "box install coldbox" and yes I was running it from commandBox.

Thank you

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Good to hear Mike. I updated that page to be a bit clearer.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
Blog: http://www.codersrevolution.com