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thaJungle-Doa
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May 19, 2008
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CF8, IIS 6.0, Win2003 Server & ACLs... I need a drink.

  • May 19, 2008
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First off the background... I have a Windows 2003 Server sitting on my bench that was built and made as a secondary controller in my domain. I installed the IIS 6.0 application server (with the anonymous user of IUSR_USER) and verified the install as good. No problems connecting to the web server.

Next, I installed Cold Fusion 8 in server mode on top of IIS 6. I went in and verified the <cfdir>\runtime\lib\wsconfig directory was RWX for IUSR_USER & IIS_WPG. I also verified the previous two groups had access to the \inetpub\wwwroot directory. All go... or not.

I can connect to the server, but now, no matter what I do, I get an "HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to an ACL set on the requested resource." error. The only thing I can find on the net is about setting the permissions on the wsconfig directory, wwwroot directory and setting the owner to the anonymous IUSR account. To try and get something working I even set the anonymous IIS user to the domain administrator but I still get the same error.

I can uninstall CF8 and IIS will parse pages and serve them out with no errors so it has to be something with the CF Application server.

Can anyone point me in a direction other then the ones I've tried above? Thanks!
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thaJungle-DoaAuthor
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May 27, 2008
I thought I'd go back to the basics so I uninstalled CF8 and then uninstalled the IIS server. I reinstalled the IIS server and was able to connect without a problem so I installed the CF8 server and viola! it let me connect to the administrator and set up the server.

One thing I was thinking about, initially I built the server, installed IIS and then decided to attach it to my domain. I think this is where the problem was. The IUSR_SERVERNAME user was a local user account and when I joined the domain it got deleted as active directory was installed. When I uninstalled and reinstalled IIS when the server was a member of the domain it associated the IUSR_SERVERNAME user as the anonymous users, but I am unable to find it (the user IUSR_SERVERNAME) in the active directory.

I'm still not sure exactly what is going on here, but I have it up and running for now and will dig deeper when I have the spare time. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem.

=Rog
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Dr Axe
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May 23, 2008
I am having the identical issue with the same configuration.
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Dr Axe
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May 23, 2008
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Originally posted by: Dr Axe
I am having the identical issue with the same configuration.


Oddly enough, it's only the 8.01 installer. I was able to get 8.00 to configure. When I apply the 8.01 update, back to the exact same problem.
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Dr Axe
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May 27, 2008
My fix was simpler - Initially I was trying to install Coldfusion to D: ; I cleaned up some space on C: and installed there, and everything works fine.

It may have it's root in the fact that Coldfusion7 had been installed and uninstalled from the C: drive at an earlier date.

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