Question
CF8 breaks IIS v6.0 on Win Server 2003...
If I install CF8 without the built-in web-server, I can't
even run the CF Admin page when it's done installing! So HOW
exactly am I supposed to get it to finish configuring itself?
If I install it with the built-in web-server, it will allow me to run the CF Admin page -- but NOTHING ELSE. (edit: " http://localhost:8500/administrator" is the ONLY page that works.) Every page I try to browse to, whether locally or remotely, shows HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error). Uninstalling CF8 will fix the problem immediately, but obviously that's not the solution I need here.
After installing CF8 with the built-in web-server, it automatically ran the Admin page for the first time where it supposedly configured IIS (but didn't). I also ran Programs -> Adobe -> ColdFusion8 -> Web Server Configuration Tool. Added IIS to it, all websites, with Cold Fusion Apps enabled. It *did* do the propper .cfm, .cfc, .cfml, etc., mappings, but it did NOT create the JRunScripts virtual directory. How do I create that directory manually? Do I really need to create that directory at all? What does that directory do? (I'm not actually going to run CF apps on this server, I just need CF to allow Flex to access a MS SQL database -- or at least, that's what I was told. So do I really need the JRunScripts directory, anyway?)
And on the CF8 Admin -> Server Settings -> Mappings page, there's no mapping to the main website. Only a /CFIDE mapping that points to C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\CFIDE (which I can't change or delete), and a /gateway mapping that points to C:\ColdFusion8\gateway\cfc. Seems like there should be a / mapping that points to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot, but creating one had no effect.
Any help is appreciated.
If I install it with the built-in web-server, it will allow me to run the CF Admin page -- but NOTHING ELSE. (edit: " http://localhost:8500/administrator" is the ONLY page that works.) Every page I try to browse to, whether locally or remotely, shows HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error). Uninstalling CF8 will fix the problem immediately, but obviously that's not the solution I need here.
After installing CF8 with the built-in web-server, it automatically ran the Admin page for the first time where it supposedly configured IIS (but didn't). I also ran Programs -> Adobe -> ColdFusion8 -> Web Server Configuration Tool. Added IIS to it, all websites, with Cold Fusion Apps enabled. It *did* do the propper .cfm, .cfc, .cfml, etc., mappings, but it did NOT create the JRunScripts virtual directory. How do I create that directory manually? Do I really need to create that directory at all? What does that directory do? (I'm not actually going to run CF apps on this server, I just need CF to allow Flex to access a MS SQL database -- or at least, that's what I was told. So do I really need the JRunScripts directory, anyway?)
And on the CF8 Admin -> Server Settings -> Mappings page, there's no mapping to the main website. Only a /CFIDE mapping that points to C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\CFIDE (which I can't change or delete), and a /gateway mapping that points to C:\ColdFusion8\gateway\cfc. Seems like there should be a / mapping that points to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot, but creating one had no effect.
Any help is appreciated.
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