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ChrisGaelic
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September 26, 2014
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cf11 install doesn't create cfide in web root

  • September 26, 2014
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I've been running cf8 on a windows webserver 2008 with IIS7.5 and have just installed cf11. The install completed successfully to the point of opening cfadmin and then failed. On looking in the web root directory as set in IIS, the old CFIDE folder had not been updated, so cf11 was attempting to use the cf8 version.

I renamed the old cfide folder to cfide08, uninstalled cf11 and tried reinstalling it again - but still no cfide folder was created for cf11, and I couldn't open cfadmin. The cfide folder does get created in c:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\wwwroot\cfide

Has anyone else experienced this, or know how to fix it?

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    Carl Von Stetten
    Carl Von Stetten
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    September 26, 2014

    I don't believe the ColdFusion installer will touch C:\inetpub\wwwroot by default, or any other location outside of the ColdFusion installation directory.  Someone must have copied the CF8 CFIDE folder into C:\inetpub\wwwroot (probably as a security measure).  What should happen is that when you run the Web Server Configuration Tool to connect ColdFusion to IIS, it should create a virtual directory called "CFIDE" in some or all of your IIS web sites, and that virtual directory will point to C:\ColdFusion11\cfusion\wwwroot\cfide.

    When you install ColdFusion 11, don't connect it to IIS initially (during the installation there is a screen where you have the option of connecting to a web server or just using the built-in web server - use the built-in one initially).  Once you have verified ColdFusion has installed correctly and you can get into the CF Administrator, install Update 1 (this has some fixes for the IIS web connector).  Go into IIS and make sure all of the CF8 handlers are removed and all virtual directories are removed from web sites.  Then run the Web Server Configuration Tool to connect CF to IIS.  That should create the "jakarta" and "CFIDE" virtual directories either on all web sites or the specific site you choose.

    -Carl V.

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      ChrisGaelicAuthor
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      September 28, 2014

      Hi Carl,

      Thanks for that. I've now uninstalled cf11 and reinstalled it to use the built-in webserver, and was then able to run the configuration tool and then open cf11 admin.

      However, that's as far as I could go. cf11 admin doesn't include Update 1 for download - only cf10 updates. When I checked whether the config tool had copied across all my datasources, custom tags and components, there was nothing.

      Do you know if Adobe have made Update 1 available yet? - I see some forum discussion on this, and it appears to be available - but not from my cf11 admin.

      I'm getting really nervous about this as I'm running a production webserver with around 100 websites, including ecommerce and call management applications. I can't afford for anything to go wrong, and what I'm seeing at the moment looks pretty flaky.

      Cheers,

      Chris

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      ChrisGaelicAuthor
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      September 28, 2014

      I spoke to soon. Installing cf11 to use the built-in webserver has now broken all of my cf8 applications.Uninstalling cf11 doesn't help. This brings into sharp focus why I stayed with cf8 for so long after cfmx nearly broke my business...

      BKBK
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      BKBKCommunity Expert
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      September 26, 2014

      Shouldn't it be at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE instead? In fact, shouldn't your site be in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\?

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