{"id":2980,"date":"2026-02-20T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:37:46","slug":"running-coldfusion-acf-or-lucee-on-raspberry-pi-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2026\/02\/running-coldfusion-acf-or-lucee-on-raspberry-pi-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Running ColdFusion (ACF or Lucee) on Raspberry Pi 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been ages since I have had the time to tinker with any of my Raspberry Pis. In fact playing old games with my son using Retro Pi<\/a> is probably 90% of the interaction in the last 3-4 years. Last week I was cleaning up some old “tech stuff” around my home office and came across my Raspberry Pi 5 unplugged and shelved. Barely an hour later I was running ColdFusion on it (of course by way of CommandBox<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I’m not going to go through all the details on how to get a Raspberry Pi up and running. There are plenty of videos and tutorials for that. What I’d like to
\nprovide is a slight update to the 4 commands necessary to install CommandBox on the current OS – Raspbian GNU\/Linux 13 (trixie). I found this in the Linux apt-get \u2192 Stable<\/strong> section of the CommandBox documentation<\/a>. I added the comments.<\/p>\n

\n    # 1. Downloads Ortus Solutions' repository GPG signing key,\n    #    converts it to a trusted keyring format, and installs it\n    #    so your system can verify packages from that repo are authentic.\n    curl -fsSl https:\/\/downloads.ortussolutions.com\/debs\/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee \/usr\/share\/keyrings\/ortussolutions.gpg > \/dev\/null\n\n\n    # 2. Adds the Ortus Solutions package repository to your system's\n    #    APT software sources list.\n    echo \"deb [signed-by=\/usr\/share\/keyrings\/ortussolutions.gpg] https:\/\/downloads.ortussolutions.com\/debs\/noarch \/\" \\\n    | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/commandbox.list\n\n\n    # 3. Refreshes the package index and installs CommandBox\n    #    (plus HTTPS support for APT if needed).\n    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https commandbox\n\n    # 4. Install Java\n    sudo apt install default-jdk\n<\/pre>\n
Number 4 is really my only contribution here. The original command: sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk<\/code> results in an error since
\nopenjdk-11-jdk no longer exists in the main repository<\/strong>. The command I provided installs the default which at the time of this writing is
\nopenjdk-21<\/strong>. Below you can see the output of the original command and the updated one.<\/p>\n
\"Install
Install Java<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Once CommandBox was installed I fired up an instance of Adobe ColdFusion 2025. Screenshot was taken using Raspberry Pi Connect screen sharing. As a side note I
\nshowed server.os.additionalInformation<\/code> for ACF since server.os.name<\/code> reports as UNIX.<\/p>\n
\"ACF
ACF ColdFusion on Raspberry Pi 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Also fired up an instance of Lucee 5. Screenshot taken again using Raspberry Pi Connect screen sharing.<\/p>\n
\"Lucee
Lucee ColdFusion on Raspberry Pi 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I guess I’ve been away from the Raspberry Pi game for so long that I was pretty blown away by the new Raspberry Pi Connect<\/a> remote-access service from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This service lets you open and control your Raspberry Pi desktop from anywhere through a web browser \u2014 without port-forwarding, VPNs, or knowing your home IP address.<\/p>\n
Also of note, the Raspberry Pi Imager<\/a> is amazing. You can preconfigure settings such as WiFi network access, VNC, Hostname, and other settings as you create the image rather than digging around in config files or using raspi-config<\/code> after the fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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