Can't access CF administrator page when using Apache

In addition to Dave's great points (and at the risk of helping someone open a door they really should not open), I'll ask if you have confirmed whether you can have Apache serve ANY CFM page from the folder in which the CFIDE folder lives, which is CF's cfusion/wwwroot folder (unless you have defined more than one instance, in which case it's [instancename]/wwwroot.

If you get a 404 trying ANY CFM page in that folder, then your problem isn't really about the CFIDE underneath it. And in that case, you may want to clarify how you have your virtualhost element configured.

Finally, if that works but NOT the CFIDE, are you sure you restarted Apache after making the change to the uroworkermap.properties file? (That is indeed the file where the protection lives. I discussed it in more detail in a post back in 2016 when all these was added.)

As for the risk of doing this, I will reiterate (as I state in my post) that Adobe has good reason to be blocking access to the CF Admin via external web servers by default, for everyone's own good. Too many people simply would not heed their warnings of how to protect access to the Admin via such an external web server.

And one should only "open that hole in the wall" with the greatest care and consideration (indeed, adding security to the web server, if it will be open to visitors from outside the server). But opening that hole should possible for someone determined to do it.

Let us know how it goes.

My understanding is that CF won't serve any /CFIDE/administrator/ URLs through the connected web server. This is an intentional security restriction. I suspect the blocking happens in CF rather than in the connector itself.

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC