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arbee10
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January 31, 2008
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Coldfusion 8 install problems with Windows 2003 and IIS 6

  • January 31, 2008
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Ok, we finally got our CF8 upgrade and after playing with the developer edition on my local machine we have been trying to install onto our new dev machine but have been having some major issues trying to install onto a windows server 2003 machine, running IIS 6. I know there has been some noted issues with IIS 6, but have not been able to find anything that has really been that useful. Basically here is our problem:

After installing Coldfusion 8, we try to open the administrator/index.cfm page but get the server error: Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them has a mapping to process this request. This was after not even being able to open .htm files, and making sure we mapped the jrun-6-wildcard.dll (something like that) file, and made sure the coldfusion extensions pointed there as well.

We first tried a fresh install directly to the inetpub/wwwroot folder and could not get anything to run, then installed it to run off its own server, and used the web server config tool after to configure to run with IIS. Now, we can open the index.cfm page, but only when we add the port 8500 to url.

Just a note we are using the trial download from the website to install, because even months after release Adobe can't seem to get a download link for us to download in our licensing site. Not sure if this might have any relevance.

If you have any help, or links or info that could help us please respond. We have been searching and feel we are close but cannot get it up and running.

Thanks in advance,
Ryan
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    mooreeri
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    February 1, 2008
    I got the 500 error when I installed CF and tried to go straight to admin as well, but it was due to IIS not being setup completely yet - as you mentioned you can't get even .htm to run yet. Is this your first IIS 6 web server? It's much more locked down. I had to manually add permissions fto read the roots of the websites. The IUSR needs those read permissions. For my websites to work I also had to give IIS_WPG and Network_service (for .Net) read permissions as well. That got the 500 errors to go away and I could get into CF administrator. But I can't get Verity search going on mine. Still trying stuff...
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    arbee10Author
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    February 1, 2008
    Well as it turns out it looks like it was just this server. We tried everything, and I added those user accounts to full permission for the Coldfusion folders and we just could not get it to work. We tried it on another couple servers running 2003, and it installed perfectly right out of the box with no other permissions needed. And those servers were all running default configs with no other permissions done.

    We still have no idea what was the problem, but at least for now it seems to be this server. But I will tell you what, that II6 stuff seems to be a bit of a pain, we had major problems installing new version of PHP with it too. Oh well, good luck to you too!
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