A user emailed me to ask about installing ColdFusion when no desktop access is available (Telnet access, for example). I sent him this link describing Performing a silent installation of ColdFusion 9, and am posting it here just so I have it the next time I need it.
Unfortunately this is only a partial solution - you still need to access ColdFusion administrator to finalise configuration with a browser and manual work. I could potentially create script that behaves like a browser but I think that would take too much time.
Here's what I did:
1. Install without admin password using silent mode installation
2. modify neo-security.xml to disable password checking completely (with sed)
3. start CF and install Apache JRun connector (need to give time for these to complete, I gave 45 and 15 seconds)
4. request http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm?configserver=true" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm?con... and wait 10 seconds
5. request http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm and wait 5 seconds
6. request http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm and installation is done
Hope this helps others trying to do the same!