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jalmk
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July 24, 2014
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ColdFusion 11 new installation; service won't start on 2008 R2

  • July 24, 2014
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I've just installed ColdFusion 11 on a clean Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and the ColdFusion application service looks like it starts, but then a minute later, shows that it is not running (in the services panel). When I try to restart it, it simply will not start. It comes back with the typical error "This application took too long to respond..." so now it just hangs in a "starting" state. I've rebooted the server several times, there is nothing else running on the server. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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webmandman8
webmandman8
Inspiring
July 24, 2014

Tell us more about your installation. Was is server configuration? embedded? EAR or WAR? Seperate partition? Is the coldfusion service starting up as LOCAL SYSTEM or another user?

I've had CF11 trial for two weeks and I've have not had any easy installation process.

Also, I believe a week ago I had the same problem and I reconfigured (using the WSCONFIG.exe in cfusion/bin) the IIS server to 32 bit eventhough my system is 64 bit and using the 64 bit CF server. It was super easy to get up and running with coldfusion 9, but i don't know what changed, if anything, that makes CF 11 so difficult. The installation by default should just have everything preconfigured. The installation should take care of permissions, users, default passwords, default features, etc. 

webmandman8
webmandman8
Inspiring
July 24, 2014

Jalmk, let me know if you get to the admin page successfully and successfully login in your first attempt. Because for me the password is not accepted. I have to reset IE, restart system, do the password reset, and restart cf servive.

following something like this guide was also difficult for me. atleast the built-in server works fine, but once you use IIS its get screwed.

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