It was real pain for me to install ColdFusion on my Linux box with Apache. Anyway we have installed it and I thought to share it because this may help you also to install ColdFusion on a Linux box. First of all open a shell and then continue on this. Grant Execute permission to the Coldfusion ‐ 8 ‐ lin.bin binary file chmod +x Coldfusion ‐ 8 ‐ lin.bin Execute Coldfusion ‐ 8 ‐ lin.bin ./Coldfusion ‐ 8 ‐ lin.bin Enter the Locale 1 (English) Hit Enter 28 times to continue the agreement Enter "Y" to accept the agreement Enter the version to install 3 (Developer Edition) Enter the next task to perform 1 (Server Configuration) Enter whether you have an existing server configuration 2 (No existing server configuration) Enter the next task to perform 5 (continue installation) Enter the installation path Hit enter to accept the default path Hit Enter 30 times to continue the agreement Enter "Y" to accept the agreement ...