Can't create coldfusion instance

Hey Tom, long time no talk. I have a few thoughts.

First, technically that’s not really saying “page not found” but rather “file not found”. Anyway you see it’s trying to access the server.xml file within a “test” instance. I assume that’s the instance you were trying to create.

Can you confirm if it even created that test folder (under the cf10 directory, where instances are created)? If the folder’s there, is the file (server.xml) there, in its runtime/conf folder? If it’s there, and you open it, does it have content? It should be about 20 lines of XML (without comments, which make the same file in the cfusion directory a bit larger).

Second, you say it’s CF10, on Server 2012. You are doing this with a CF installer that was downloaded after March 2013, right? That’s when Adobe created (and blogged about how they had created) a new installer for CF10 which supported 2012. If you may be using some CF10 installer that could have been from the original release (May 2012) then that may be your problem.

And while you can no longer get any CF10 installers from the Adobe site, you can indeed still find them available online from a trusted resource. For more, see my bog entry;

http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2014/10/30/finding_coldfusion_installers_and_updates

Unless someone has a better suggestion, let’s figure next steps based on what you report for these.

/charlie