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Anonymous
May 30, 2007
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CFIDE - Virtual Directory

  • May 30, 2007
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We are installing a handful of Windows IIS Cold Fusion servers and have run into an issue with CFADMIN. On a couple of servers, under the Default Web Server, the CFIDE directory is just defined as a Folder, on a couple of others it is defined as a Virtual Directory (Gears icon). The symptoms are that CFADMIN is available through port 8500 on those that do not have it defined as a VD. Cancelling out of the challenge screen twice appears to allow you access to CFADMIN. Those servers where it is defined as a VD do not have access to CFADMIN through port 8500.

Obviously we did something different during the install on each of these servers. We would like to disable port 8500 access all together. Anybody know how we can get them corrected?

Thanks. BC
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    Anonymous
    May 31, 2007
    I'd be more inclined to disable the cfadmin on port 80 using something like ISAPI Rewrite and access the admin only on port 8500. It is safer because you can restrict port 8500 to only internal users.

    Sounds like you've got a couple of different installs setup to me. You can always create a virtual directory and point it to CFIDE (you don't need to give the virt dir execute privs (which gives it the gears icon) ) and have access to the administrator.

    Generally I create a /CFIDE virt mapping and delete the adminapi and administrator folders from the folder that /CFIDE maps too.

    BUT, CF still has a mapping to /CFIDE and it will still serve up the admin pages. So you've got to use something like ISAPI Rewrite to send a 404 when it sees someone trying to access sitename.com/cfide/administrator/* or adminapi/*
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